I played this game launch day on mobile, putting many hours into it. There is absolutely nothing worthwhile about this game other than looks.

Do not waste a single minute of your time on this game. It is nothing more than a pure cash grab for the Madoka IP. Stay as far away from this and do not give them a single dollar. This game does not respect your time, so don't respect it back monetarily. If you want any story that isn't a retelling of the animes, then you're better off watching any videos online. And if you do, give them a like for the pain and torture they had to go through so you would not have it.

Magia Record should not have died for this. It is nothing more than a pure downgrade.

Cons:
-Gacha is terrible, expensive, and has no pity system.
-Abhorrently overpriced microtransactions. I'm not joking. This is pure wallet abuse for no gain.
-3D visuals in promotions is just an on-rails section of the game to get you from one fight to the other.
-Idle game in disguise. You can manually play out battles, but auto will get you the win 99% of the time, so there's no reason to not run it at max speed, wasting your time otherwise.
-Menuing is absolutely clunky and takes too many taps and load screens to get somewhere.
-Low to non-existent source of F2P income.
-Not sure if they fixed any of the following since I dropped, but if you played ranked and skipped the battle, you would lose a 100% winnable fight. I tested multiple times fighting lower level teams that had one or 2 low HP characters left while I had 5 full HP, skipped, and would somehow lose. This is an issue because these fight drag on for MINUTES.
-2 month passes, where the expensive one requires you to do missions to receive HALF the rewards. The other half are login. $18 worth... to do a single 10 pull. Greed at its finest.
-Speaking of, a single 10 pull is roughly $20. That should tell you enough.

Pros:
-Amazing sleep aid for insomniacs.
-Voice acting ig.
-Visuals are decent. Don't mistake flashy colors a lots of things happening on the screen for good visuals.

TLDR; dont waste your time or money on this game. just wait for the movie

Fun, but hard to recommend unless you REALLY are a huge fan of the franchise and it's spinoffs. Whether or not the first main act of the game being a rehash of the anime can be a huge hit-or-miss depending on personal taste: I had actually been wanting to do a rewatch of the anime but have found myself short on time, so seeing a condensed form as the first act was actually pretty fun. But if you don't want to see it again, you'll be skipping the story to try to clear it as quickly as possible so you can start seeing content like. I will be sitting here waiting patiently until Tart Magica is in the story and refuse to settle for anything less than every Tart Magica character on my account just like Magia Record.

Game is very much not f2p friendly, but it is better than a lot of other gacha games: you will get a good amount of pulls early on form the story, and then you'll catch up, and you remember every gacha not named Limbus Company is like this. While the game does give you a lot of Magia Keys for pulling, the rates aren't great, but it is something. The story additions and the current summer event have all been very fun, but you need to approach the game with the understanding that this is very much a gacha that wants your money. Got lucky with Summer Mami and praying and manifesting I can at least grab Summer Madoka without too much suffering...

Gameplay is similar to Honkai Star Rail. You can have it auto battle if you want it to grind or be more involved yourself, but you'll probably find yourself autobattling outside of boss fights where it's not allowed. So it can be pretty hands-off, which may not be appealing to some players.

All in all, it's a recommendation for someone that meets the following criteriacriteria: dedicated fans of PMMM who enjoy the lore and it's associated spinoffs -AND- people who are used to gacha and it's nonsense and are willing to put up with it. If you didn't hit BOTH checkmarks, it's very hard to recommend it. If you wanted to check it out bc you're curious in PMMM and heard the first arc is a faithful adaption, I highly encourage you to watch the anime instead then give it a check out. But, I think it's a fun game at least! Worth the delays, if nothing else!

Combat: It's a basic turn based game where you can auto play 95% of the content. The element system doesn't seem to matter beyond limiting your upgrade materials and any character can reduce the break bar. If your team is strong enough you can brute force everything except the hardest Nightmare mode bosses.

Story: Retelling the story of the various animes.

Gacha: Abysmal currency accumulation available after completing the main story. Having both monthly subscriptions gives enough currency for 13 pulls while the hard pity is 200 and multiple new characters are released every month.

shameless cashgrab 1-1 retelling of the original anime microtransactions are shoved into your face during the tutorial but the animations and art are amazing

mahou shoujo ☆*:.｡.o(≧▽≦)o.｡.:*☆

please dont play this game, its way greedy and its signs are showing immediately. you need like 300 gems for a pull, gameplay is repetitive, the battle system is just shamelessly imitating Honkai Star Rail except none of the nuance (and I already have my critiques with the latter game). literally like maybe a couple minutes in and you're already being shown the shop. Its just repetitive and I noticed a lot of signs that its just a cash grab even for a gacha. If you want to experience the Madoka franchise or story there are far better ways to do that than play this game. And I'm speaking as someone who got like a ton of 5 star kiokus when i pulled so this isn't out of being salty

Had Fun. 100% this game.

I have a problem with spending money on gatcha games. I haven't spent a single cent on this one and i hit max level before the update, and only AFTER finishing all the content available at the time did I start to hit the max of how powerful my girlies could get. since the update adding crystalis and upping the cap above 100 , ive already completed the new story beats and am very excited for the next set on content.

As a Madoka fan, this makes me happy

I like how this game is easy to play and how it has an interesting story. I totally recommend other people try this game.