Dang, I've got QUITE the history with gacha games, to the point I may not even recall all of the ones I play(ed).
So, uh...the list is too long I'll split it upon THREE(?) boxes.
Service Terminated- Love Live! School idol festival
My introduction title to gacha games, but it's a rhythm game at the end of the day.
As a gacha, however, it being a 2013 game meant gacha standards back then are considered unfathomable--1% for the highest rarity, awaken using a DUPE of the card, and so on... - Aikatsu! Photo on Stage!!
Imagine flashing a dedicated custom ROM for this game. That's how I took the game seriously, but with the resources I could harvest as a non-paying player. The game had quite the flaws, though, but it was a nice jubeat to pick up...if you didn't mind the Hoshimiya Ichigo bias. - Battle Girl High School
This game had it rough for the entire duration of its service, game in itself not my experience. It also doesn't help that I started at a late time, probably when its downfall started. This one wasn't a rhythm game, yet it had timing-based actions... - PriPara: PriPuz
I already miss this game. It was the perfect time-killer when I got nothing to do in university. Gameplay was also pretty simple, but the major mistake here was attempting to sell a gacha game to the younger audience. - Precure: Tsunagaru Pazurun
PriPuz but if the board was a bit of a hexagon. I'm NOT really a fan of Precure, though... - Dragalia Lost
Never forgiven, Nintendo. Nintendo + Cygames really was quite the combination, and the game DID deliver, but not only did I find not really anyone to share this with, but I also had my own problems *cough*-phone-*cough*-theft-*cough* which kept me from playing this to the very end. - Kirara Fantasia
First of all I'm NOT a yuri fan, let's get this out first.
Probably one of the more unique RPGs out there......at least until Honkai: Star Rail took the same concept and packaged it in a Chinese predatory telemetry game. This one was kind of high-profile, though, despite the incompetitive devteam, because quite the series like GochiUsa and Bocchi the Rock were in here (Manga Time Kirara after all). This game was QUITE stingy, however, and it took years for it to catch up a bit to few regulations, and even then it was still quite exhausting in all aspects. At the end of the day I quit it because I needed my guys as well (Acchi Kocchi also joined this game, but without Io and Sakaki, and that was the nail in the coffin). - SHOW BY ROCK!! Fes A Live
What happens when you "merge" three games' gameplay style? This happened. It was workable, but same problem as Dragalia Lost. It even ended its service before I could get a new phone...... - Sevens Story
I also miss this game. While its gameplay is basically Fire Emblem, it actually had quite the content going for it, but then this game had one strong point: Collabs. Too many collabs, even. Imagine assembling Noumi Kudryavka and Filo and Princess Kukuri in the same team, and then Mimi...... - World Flipper
Pinball gacha. You know what pinball means. This one I managed to see to the very end, but hey, it left some offline memorial (and so did SHOW BY ROCK!! Fes A Live). So long as the storage is fine, I'm not thinking of deleting that.
In Service (Quit)- Granblue Fantasy
When the game is pretty generous but at the end of the day it's a grindfest, and a neverending one at that...at least I pulled all the Yaias I need and decided to call it "thanks, I'm done", because even Yaia doesn't interest me nowadays. And I'm not down to a game like this, my time is limited. - Puzzle & Dragons
This isn't Enhance, thanks. I didn't do much here, actually, because the gameplay was only interesting to an extent. Ronove, though... - THE IDOLM@STER Million Live! Theater Days
iM@S as a whole doesn't really click with me, but this game really takes the "idols" aspect seriously, even as a rhythm game. It's an easy one, though. - THE IDOLM@STER Shiny Colors
How to NOT design a game that can appeal to everyone. Not only is this game SUPER stingy, but almost all banners require PAID jewels, and almost every idol in this game, Produce and Support, is limited, with no reruns, so... - BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
This game is what made me realise I'm a malexfemale guy. As a rhythm game it doesn't even appeal anymore...or at least until the really difficult SPECIALs got added, but even then I don't mess with those. Arcaea Instincts. Also I can just make do with Sonolus so Bandori can just F off. - Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Fantastic Days
Priconne if it was a Konosuba thing. Details in the third "In Service (Active)" box. - Genshin Impact
Genshit. Period. - Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku
Another craze started with this game, but this one itself no longer appeals to me. Oh and it ruined itself with the Gekichumai collabs (the maimai/Chunithm/Ongeki ones), so I guess I'll just pass on the Wonderhoys and save myself the trouble with, well, Abstruse Dilemma and Arghena......
In Service (Active)- Princess Connect! Re:Dive
The only gacha game I take seriously.
This game changed the gacha scene. For good. It also paved the way for how Blue Archive would run, to name a close example. It uses a star-based rarity system yes, but if you think of it, 5 stars overall but the highest gacha rarity is 3 means, well, you can work it out to get the remaining 2 stars for this, aka "Ascension". It also uses some other materials, like Unique Equipments and 6-star Ascensions to keep things balanced, arena and clan battles, to ensure no one complains about stuff like a certain yukata black cat breaking the game or some damned Unlimited Maho Works. It kind of has few controversial stuff nowadays, though, but it's still enjoyable.
Do note, however, that this game is practically an AFK Arena of some sorts, where almost everything is automated and you just focus on building your characters, so...oh and this is how most games of this style handle things now, including Konofan up there in the second box.
As a side note, this game is where my Mimi comes from. - Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
Cygames gone stingy. You could say it's the same as iM@S Shiny Colors, but at least there's zero limited stuff here......right...? The races as well are FULi AUTO, if you catch my drift here, but it's all RNG here and I hate RNG, so I don't take this game seriously. A future game looks to be built on this game's system, though. - THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage
The only iM@S that clicked...and rotted. Nothing much to mention here, actually, aside from the idea it has a PC client that's truly playable. - Blue Archive
Priconne in Korean. Pretty harsh, though. - Honkai: Star Rail
No I'm not really active in this one, I simply got Clara and am resting so easy after that.
Obscure Mentions- Pretty Rhythm: Shake (Service Terminated)
I have no idea how to describe this one...... - Girl Friend (BETA) (In Service/Quit)
Cookie Clicker RNG. And this one is age-old, with its verification and stuff, oh and its insane pay-to-win level. Glad I left this one... - Girl Friend Note (Service Terminated)
LLSIF but with the middle lane being some light thingamajig instead. - 8 beat Story (In Service/Quit)
When you merge LLSIF and iM@SCGSS. - Idoly Pride (In Service/Quit)
I don't remember this one!! Sorry!! - World Dai Star: Yume no Stellarium (In Service/Active)
PSekai??? Jokes aside, there's one feature here that's actually pretty interesting, and that's when you got mid-slide flicks that DON'T change lanes. - Tokyo 7th Sisters (In Service/Quit)
Multiple renewals and the game is still kind of standing, I gotta respect this. The latest renewal turned it into a complete Chunithm Mobile, though. - THE IDOLM@STER POP LINKS (Service Terminated)
PriPuz. Period. - DEAD OR ALIVE Xtreme Venus Vacation (In Service/Quit)
Automatic BEACH volleyball anyone? - Yuru Camp: Tsunageru Minna no All-in-One!! (In Service/Quit)
Uma Musume but if you're a fan of Yuru Camp. Available worldwide, unironically.
Lately I try to focus on JUST the one gacha game I take seriously (third box), and rather kill time (when nothing to do) with visual novels and actual retail games and
proper rhythm games like
Arcaea and
Phigros until something shows up (Angular 17 I'm looking at you).
EDIT: I forgot two games.