I've played gacha games for over a decade and have been disappointed by the recent lack of quality in the genre. Good gacha games do still exist, and I can say that Limbus Company is one of the best ones I've ever played. Based off of what's planned for the story, there is still a very long way to go and it's high unlikely we've even seen the shadow of the full potential that the developers have planned for the game.

First off, Limbus Company is very story driven, likely more than any other gacha game you've ever played. If you plan on skipping the story, you will lose a lot of the value that the game has to offer. I have pretty much always skipped the story in almost every gacha game I've played, but I think Limbus has a story that you should certainly try to get into if you're going to play the game at all. Playing Limbus almost feels like reading a manga that drops a new volume every few months.

Despite what some other reviews might say, I personally feel that the gameplay does have a certain charm to it. It's somewhat complicated and has quite a few mechanics, but pressing "winrate" is very effective 99% of the time. So much so, that you can understand relatively little about the capabilities of your units, and still beat the vast majority of the game by checking winrates on clashes, and maybe an occasional unique boss mechanic. The animations have a nice visceral weight to them, along with some decent "big number good" syndrome, which makes the combat fun to watch (for me at least).

As some reviewers have already mentioned, Limbus Company is a great gacha because it is pretty terrible at being a gacha game at times. It doesn't really try to milk you very much, the progression ceiling is extremely tame compared to other gachas, the content isn't obscenely difficult to where you're really going to feel like you need overcome any walls, and the monetization is extremely out-of-your-face. A lot of other games in the genre go pretty much in the complete opposite direction on all of those points. Still, it's a game that has the exact right amount of "gacha" to scratch the itch and manages to always keep you interested in pulling new units and building new teams.

I've played gacha games for over a decade and have been disappointed by the recent lack of quality in the genre. Good gacha games do still exist, and I can say that Limbus Company is one of the best ones I've ever played. Based off of what's planned for the story, there is still a very long way to go and it's high unlikely we've even seen the shadow of the full potential that the developers have planned for the game. First off, Limbus Company is very story driven, likely more than any other gacha game you've ever played. If you plan on skipping the story, you will lose a lot of the value that the game has to offer. I have pretty much always skipped the story in almost every gacha game I've played, but I think Limbus has a story that you should certainly try to get into if you're going to play the game at all. Playing Limbus almost feels like reading a manga that drops a new volume every few months. Despite what some other reviews might say, I personally feel that the gameplay does have a certain charm to it. It's somewhat complicated and has quite a few mechanics, but pressing "winrate" is very effective 99% of the time. So much so, that you can understand relatively little about the capabilities of your units, and still beat the vast majority of the game by checking winrates on clashes, and maybe an occasional unique boss mechanic. The animations have a nice visceral weight to them, along with some decent "big number good" syndrome, which makes the combat fun to watch (for me at least). As some reviewers have already mentioned, Limbus Company is a great gacha because it is pretty terrible at being a gacha game at times. It doesn't really try to milk you very much, the progression ceiling is extremely tame compared to other gachas, the content isn't obscenely difficult to where you're really going to feel like you need overcome any walls, and the monetization is extremely out-of-your-face. A lot of other games in the genre go pretty much in the complete opposite direction on all of those points. Still, it's a game that has the exact right amount of "gacha" to scratch the itch and manages to always keep you interested in pulling new units and building new teams.