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"Welcome to the world of gacha!"

★ Welcome to the Gacha World ★
Create your own anime styled Gacha Summoner, and Gacha the best 5-7★'s easily! Get gems by farming quests, battling Raid Bosses, PvP, and many more ways! Save the world from corruption as you learn every character's story. Get your gacha on and enter the Gacha World!

— app description

One of the three OG games^note Anime Arcade, Anime Gacha, and Gacha World that Lunime produced prior to the studio line of games which include a well furnished battle system, a Virtual Paper Doll protagonist with a plethora of shop items purchasable with gold or gems which this feature later becomes the basis of an entire line of studio type games that only focuses on dressup and occasionally comes with minigames that may or may not unlock customization options, and an isekai story that references many aspects from older Lunime entries that are lifted from official app libraries. Like, for example: Cyanity by Old Lunime.

The battle system is turn based RPG styled where you gacha for units to fight with, an elemental RPS system to calculate weakness, a dressup and costume shop that enhances stats, and a chat and leaderboard function for pseudo-multiplayer gameplay before the backends got removed due to being DDOSed on multiple instances. The leaderboards were rife with hacked scores anyways so its removal is largely uncontested from the playerbase.

The skippable tutorial contains Permanently Missable Content such as your guardian fairy Ellie joining the battle rescuing you from certain death. The story roughly goes like this: As a gacha player, the protagonist constantly suffers from bad RNG. Finally after pulling another slime (a three-star character; note that although three-stars are the weakest in Gacha World, slimes don't exist in this game) and running out of money IRL, they are presented with an invitational message from an unknown sender (later revealed to be Ellie as the tutorial progresses) which summons them into the game as a ten-star unit as Ellie introduces herself and teaches you how to fight and summon beings to fight for you. Moreover, this tutorial is the driving factor behind the entire plot of the game's story mode as you and Ellie fail to finish off the Final Boss simply named Final Boss who is introduced as the battle section of the tutorial comes to an end and almost resulted in The Protagonist's death.

Although this game is released on iOS and Android, it will not function properly on devices that lack AdobeAIR support and as such, Google Playstore will not allow newer devices to download the game. They removed it possibly to stop the "doesn't work" complaints from flooding the reviews any further because any Android 10 or above devices are susceptible to instant game crashing upon launch. The game ceased updating to include new content since year 2017 leaving the game at a grand total of 100 units where 95 are completed units that you can obtain in game and 5 unused units which are locked and only known because dataminers have attempted to document the entire game and every variable within.

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This game provides examples of:

• Author Avatar: Creator Luni is the gender flipped version of the lead dev, Lucas Lee, in real life for all in game lore purposes.
• Anti-Frustration Features: Everytime you lose in the bullet hell minigame, you get 5 more maxHP until it caps out at 100HP.
• Awesome, but Impractical: By using Phoenix Ami as team leader which multiplies attack by 3x when you are at full HP and placing Shishi, Penelope Coconut, Senpai Slayer Kuku, and Dice as the team members, it is possible to summon Dice after acquiring seven gacha stars to deal damage so high that the number overflows outside the damage indicator's textures. (205,876,599 damage) However, by the time that you level these five units to such inhuman levels, there are simply more reliable methods to achieve victory and also, Dice has a 25% chance to deal no damage when summoned, a trait not shared with any other unit in the game. You also had to stay at full health to keep the 3x damage multiplier from Phoenix Ami's leader skill which is not the easiest thing in the world with this team build as it has units that are suited for different purposes banded together solely for statfeeding.
• Badass Boast: DJ Clover delivers one before summoning a train on her enemies. "Your chance of survival is zero."
• The Beastmaster: Delicious Melnya summons an army of cats to attack her enemies when you summon her.
• BFG: The beam cannon that Blaster Evylln wields when summoned is almost as long as her body height and it's even wider than her own head.
• BFS: Phoenix Ami and Nanoko Shiki both wield blades that measure roughly 3/4 of their own body height and half as wide as their head.
• Bio Manipulation: Pretty much every healer unit in Gacha World is supposed to do this to varying degrees of effectiveness but some deserve special mention.
  • Besides healing the party, DJ Eve also fixes the team's mental ailnesses via playing helpful tunes and also her leader skill that completely heals 100% HP in between waves of enemies makes her a worthy mention.
  • Phoenix Ami is described in her backstory to always come back to life no matter what cause of death it is in-universe. She also heals the entire party whenever she attacks by being summoned.
• Blow You Away:
  • Arbiter Keitoku slashes a heptagram then casts tornado from his blade hitting all enemies when summoned.
  • Sylph creates a green tornado that deals damage several times when summoned.
• Bonus Dungeon: Gacha World calls it challenge quests.
  • The first one added is a save the wedding stage where the Final Boss somehow manages to almost ruin a wedding (or completely ruin it if you lose) physically by corrupting the groom to attack anything on sight.
  • The second one added is a promotional crossover with Gacha Memories where you have to work with Yandere Kuku and Basketballer Kugari to snap Cupid Valentine back to normal.
  • The third one added is also a promotional crossover, this time with Neko Gacha where a mouse that disguised itself as a cat clad in armor threatens The Protagonist and their group of cats.
  • The fourth one added is finally, a promotional crossover with the Vaporware (confirmed in mid-2018 that the beta version is abandoned) Gachaverse which was previously titled Gacha League which is also only referenced in Gacha World as Gacha League. You are supposed to assist Creator Luni in an experiment where she battles you using summons of her own, which looks more like her coding units into the game on the spot to attack you.
• Boss Bonanza: In story mode, every world has five NPCs where the last one of the five is the boss enemy of that world ... or so you thought. When you finally defeat the last NPC of world 8, which is a boss enemy, you reach world 9. And in world 9, every single NPC is a boss enemy. Then after defeating all five of those NPCs, you reach world 10. And lastly, the first NPC you encounter in world 10, being the only NPC there, is the Final Boss.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • Characters corrupted by the Final Boss all act darker and have edgier speech than they normally do. They return back to normal when cured by being defeated.
  • A specific example is Yume, a light unit, who becomes a dark type when corrupted into Nightmare Yume which is her boss form in Act VI.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Creator Luni, being the lead dev's gender flipped self insert that also serves as one of the casting gags, naturally does this a lot throughout her own story segment and other instances of her screen time. This tends to carry over on to later games which also include her existence.
  • Creator Luni first mentions in universe that the world is a game that she created when Succubus Lilith brought The Protagonist and Ellie to her.
    Creator Luni: "That's right... Gacha World itself... I AM THE ONE WHO CREATED THIS GAME."
  • Creator Luni in a later stage mentions about how the stages are progressing possibly because The Protagonist is clearing every challenge thrown at their way.
    Creator Luni: "You're still playing? Well the stages were progressing, so there must be a reason why."
  • Creator Luni before suddenly changing the game into a bullet hell.
    Creator Luni: "I'VE CREATED A NEW GAME MODE JUST TO MAKE YOU SUFFER!"
• Bookends: Near the beginning of story mode, an NPC named Gacha-Robo makes a "Gacha good!" pun which Ellie after being defeated by The Protagonist near the end of story mode, feigns being dead before saying "Gacha good!" themself after waking up for real.
• Casting a Shadow:
  • Angelic Violet casts a single black hole that damages every enemy when summoned.
  • Lolimere Suisho's bow casts a black hole in front of her that fires off a beam of darkness towards her enemies when summoned.
  • Lolita Loli activates her bunny doll named Buni to cast a black hole onto all enemies when summoned.
  • Yume when fought as the boss of Chibion, throws a black hole at you when she attacks you.
• Casting Gag:
  • Creator Luni being both an Author Avatar but also a Casting Gag because even inside Gacha World she is a game creator.
  • DJ Phantom is actually Raphael O., the head admin of the official Lunime Discord server and also public relations of Lunime Inc. but before this he was an actual DJ that uploaded a mix track onto SoundCloud before.
  • Kilios is a speedrunner inside Xkour and outside of the game, Kilios is a speedrunner in real life.
• Chromatic Rock Paper Scissors: Its Color-Coded Elements include Fire (red) beating Wind (green), which beats Water (blue) that in turn beats Fire. Light (yellow) and Dark (purple) deal super effective damage against each other.
• Complete Immortality: Of the type two variety.
  • The protagonist can simply retry after losing any battle that would presumably end their life and in one case even stronger than they originally started as.
  • Everytime Phoenix Ami dies, she respawns somewhere else with her own fire powers which strengthens everytime she dies.
• Death Is Cheap: The game has zero consequences from losing (outside of arena mode which only increases a death counter and does nothing else) which makes it very risk-free to try out different strategies and to also mindlessly farm for extended periods of time.
• Defeat Means Friendship:
  • Upon beating every boss inside story mode and challenge mode, they each return to normal and continue their daily lives after returning the favor usually by befriending you through recognizing your efforts to bring them back or in one case, gives you a free means of ocean travel.
  • Subverted by the Final Boss as the Final Boss is never friendly to begin with and never befriends you afterwards either. It later gets double subverted because the stage number that you fight Final Boss on is not the end of Act X therefore is not the true world 10 boss.
• A Dog Named "Dog": One of Lolita Loli's plush toys is a bunny named Buni.
• Elemental Powers: For a game that is based on Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, there is as expected, many elemental powers showcased in the units' summon animations. Technically The Protagonist, being a gacha summoner while wielding the gacha sword, can make use of all elements (that exists within the game) via both summoning their respective wielders and also the ability to gacha summon is an applied example of time and space powers as it is shown to summon beings from different worlds and timelines. The elements that a playable unit can have are water, fire, wind, light and dark.
• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: A very basic example where elemental bonuses deal 1.5x damage and elemental weakness deals 0.5x damage. Water is strong against fire but weak against wind, fire is strong against wind but weak against water, and wind is strong against water but weak against fire. Meanwhile, light and dark are strong against each other.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep":
  • Demon Hunter hunts demons. It's revealed in Gacha Resort, a game released after Gacha World, that his actual name is David. But as far as Gacha World is concerned, his name is Demon Hunter inside the cutscenes.
  • The Final Boss is just named Final Boss. In a previous game called Anime Gacha, there exists a character that looks exactly the same but is named Phantom instead. It's confirmed by the creators that Phantom and DJ Phantom are not the same character.
  • Green Jester is a green jester.
  • Naito is a knight unit.
  • Scythe Ripper rips her enemies up with her scythes. It's revealed in Gacha Resort, a game released after Gacha World, that her actual name is Jackie. But as far as Gacha World is concerned, her name is Scythe Ripper inside the backstories.
• Extra-ore-dinary: DJ Clover summons trains presumably made out of metal after floating upwards which she uses to drop onto all enemies when summoned.
• Final Boss: Is named Final Boss. Basically a personification of aberrant programming, as seen whenever Final Boss takes over various characters, their personalities and means of attack gets altered, usually to extreme levels of what they are originally before getting corrupted. Their speech usually also becomes more edgy after being corrupted. It also blacks out the upper half of their face while making their eyes glow in the dark.
• Full Health Bonus: Phoenix Ami's leader skill gives 3x multiplier to any attack the player makes if and only if they are at full health. This includes her own summon skill which both attacks and heals at the same time. Sure, the heal can get you back up to full to resume the bonus effect, but it would be weakened by the effect not occuring already due to not being at full health for the heal to be required in the first place.
• Game-Breaking Bug: The devs over at Lunime never playtested their game outside of using debug mode so when you push raid boss levels up to a certain point, they stop saving damage dealt in between runs, making progression impossible past that certain point. Basically a segment of bad code makes accumulating damage between rounds within boss mode impossible if the boss is not below a certain constant value which is unexpectedly legally attainable in legitimate gameplay and thus the player ends up repeatedly trying to gradually lower the boss' HP only for it to always replenish to full after losing. The easiest way to see this in action is by raising Gacha Salt to level 200 by defeating it 199 times. Once it is at level 200, this bug makes the boss unwinnable. This behavior is demonstrated in 6:45 - 7:10 of this video.
• Gemstone Assault:
  • Celestial Alice stretches her wings and crystals shoot out from inside her wings that deal damage to her enemies when summoned.
  • Tormentor Seiya slams his massive scythe-head shaped crystal flail that replaces his lost arm at his enemies when summoned.
• The Ghost: DJ Vinyl, DJ Lyte's brother and mentor figure in musicianship, never makes it into any cutscenes due to being involved in a freak attack and remains in a coma until presumably after The Protagonist was forced to leave from a summoning call into the next world that needed to be saved. This does not stop him from being one of the major plot driving factors during Act VII of story mode as his absence is credited to DJ X who attempted to steal his fragment of the ultimate record and failed only to injure DJ Vinyl and making an enemy out of DJ Lyte.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Lolita Loli owns quite a few stuffed animals and goes so far as to invite them onto tea parties.
• Glass Cannon:
  • The game has many units that prioritize ATK over HP, but some are very blatantly more so than others. Take for example, Senpai Slayer Kuku which has roughly 100x more ATK than HP at max level (level 300) and exaggerates this even further with a leader skill that multiplies team ATK by 2x while dividing team HP by 10x. Scythe Ripper's leader skill comes in second where it multiplies team ATK by 1.9x and then divides team HP by 5x.
  • For the enemies, DJ Phantom which is the boss of Vinyl City, hits very hard compared to other bosses while being squishier than most bosses at the same level when played through boss mode. Somewhat downplayed because he mainly relies on his reaper minion to deal the major damage instead of dealing it himself.^note he himself still deals damage but is very insignificant compared to his minion's damage numbers
• Glitch Entity: Final Boss is this, making whoever he infects with his corruption act wildly out of character in perspective of the other sane characters inside the game.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: The characters that become infected by Final Boss all start to antagonize The Protagonist putting them through difficult boss fights after their eyes start glowing. Eyes glowing is a very accurate tell-tale signs of being corrupted and having to be fought to return back to normal in Gacha World. The Final Boss when defeated returns to normal which is nothing different from before as he was in character the entire time anyways so he doesn't change and just straight up corrupts your friend Ellie before fading away.
• Gravity Master: DJ Clover adjusts her own gravity parameter to float upwards before dropping trains that she summons onto all enemies when summoned.
• Green Thumb: Florepuella Marie grows plant tentacles that wraps around every enemy on the field to strangle them for damage when summoned.
• Having a Blast:
  • Creator Luni launches countless missiles at all enemies when summoned.
  • DJ X's summon ability has him exploding his enemy when summoned while DJ X-mas explodes every enemy multiple times when summoned.
• Heart Beat-Down: Cupid Valentine summons a massive heart that deals damage to her enemies everytime it beats when you summon her.
• An Ice Person:
  • Frost uses her staff to conjure a massive ball of ice and drops it onto all enemies when summoned.
  • Snowball Sylph summons a handheld snowman that throws a snowball barrage towards her enemies when summoned.
• Improbable Weapon User:
  • Candy Tanuki summons candy rain from the sky all over her enemies.
  • Chocolate Clover summons three gigantic chocolate clovers that are irresistably tasty and kills her enemies by them overeating her chocolate summons.
  • Dice literally throws a massive dice that explodes and deals damage on a six and deals zero damage on a one^note For those that don't know, exploding dice is a system where if a Critical Hit is rolled, that dice gets rolled again until it is no longer a Critical Hit and all the previous critical hits are added up to the grand total. when summoned. There's 50% chance to roll a six and be over with it or failing that roll, a separate 50/50 roll of either a six or a one.
• Light 'em Up: Christmas Eve casts light pillars onto every enemy when summoned both dealing damage and healing the party at the same time.
• Magma Man:
  • Efreet bends over and punches the ground to cause magma to erupt in a line towards her enemies in front of her when summoned.
  • Pyromaniac Xiao jumps upwards then does a Ground Pound causing magma to spew forth from the ground towards her enemies when summoned.
  • Queen Karma points a huge ball of fire towards her enemies, which upon impact rips the ground apart causing magma to jet out from underneath her enemies when summoned.
• Magnetism Manipulation: After floating upwards and summoning metallic trains, DJ Clover drops said trains onto all enemies when summoned.
• Make Some Noise:
  • Idol Kinen attacks by singing into her oversized speakers that are even bigger than her body which damages every single enemy multiple times when summoned.
  • The ultimate record is shown to possess powers that come from music which can range from healing to taking over the minds of entire populations to nuking an entire city. There is no counter in universe to attacks made by these weapons, or at least they were never shown to have any counters in any canon lore or supporting material.
• Making a Splash:
  • Swimmer Aoi rides a tidal wave to crash onto an enemy when summoned.
  • Undine causes a blue colored water bubble to encase the enemy and burst to deal damage when summoned.
• Master of Illusion: Cele runs so fast that she creates three mirages of herself which attacks her enemies when summoned.
• McGuffin: The ultimate record and its fragmented form.
  • The ultimate record is shown to hold power to change the reality of music itself and can be used for either good or evil. If used for good, it can bring a new age of prosperity to music and even revive artificial life-forms. If used for evil, it can put everyone within the same region under Mind Control and is also shown to corrupt the person that initiated said grand scale mind control. The player cannot directly use this item as it is not even recognized as an item in the game's data structure.
  • The ultimate record got fragmented after an experiment failed at an unknown timeframe before Act VII began, with people building mixgears (explained in-universe as weaponized record players) and embedding said fragments into them giving the mixgears additional features besides playing music. The player cannot directly use this item as it is not even recognized as an item in the game's data structure. It comes in five flavors:
    • Lightning mixgear that DJ Lyte owns after DJ Vinyl gave him his ultimate record fragment offscreen to upgrade a mixgear given to him by an unknown individual before Act VII began allows him to be struck by lightning whenever he wants to which then he passes the lightning onto his enemies by tackling them.
    • Dimensional mixgear that DJ Clover (her) received from DJ X (him) after he created it illegally then somehow uses that mixgear's dimensional altering ability to drop it right in front of her allows her to disable/weaken her own gravity constant to float upwards, create metallic train segments out of thin air, and precisely dropping every segment onto every enemy via electromagnetic field manipulation.
    • Explosion mixgear that DJ X created through harnessing the explosion caused by his experiment gone wrong lets him explode anything anywhere as long as it is within his sight.
    • Healing mixgear that DJ Eve owns comes with healing and calming effects granted to whoever she chooses.
    • Reaper mixgear that DJ Phantom received from DJ X calls upon a reaper that phases into existence then does his bidding with his scythe before fading back out of existence.
    • Other unofficial mixgears are briefly mentioned as underground creations that are too unstable to use without posing a high level of risk to the users that they are generally outlawed simply by owning one.
• Mind Control:
  • The ultimate record when it fell under DJ Phantom's hands was used to control everyone's minds to all target The Protagonist and DJ Lyte who tries to help The Protagonist with returning Vinyl City back to normal.
  • The Final Boss is shown to be able to override the ultimate record's mind control abilities which was affecting DJ Phantom, the seventh boss of story mode, besides already being able to turn five bosses before this and possess the sixth boss' body in attempts to eliminate The Protagonist. (which all supposedly fail if you get to this point of the story)
• Necromancer: DJ Phantom summons a reaper with his mixgear that slashes at his enemies with its scythe twice when summoned.
• Non-Elemental: Averted except in a feature that does not impact story elements at all.
  • Due to Anime Gacha's neutral element being such a notorious Game-Breaker (it dealt 2x damage to itself and 1x damage to everything else thus cannot be resisted and all stat points invested into it costs half as much as ones invested into other elements and the stat cap for neutral element is higher than any other element) it never made a comeback in any future Lunime game starting from Gacha World.
  • Some bosses can use more than one element in Gacha World and due to limitations in the game's engine, there cannot be more than one element displayed in stage preview for the level's supposed type indicator so the neutral element icon that carried over from Anime Gacha is used instead when these boss stages are previewed in level select.
• Non-Standard Game Over:
  • In the Bullet Hell minigame, losing causes a cutscene that claims Gacha World has crashed and prompts the player to either retry or quit.
  • In the True Final Boss battle, losing causes a cutscene which simply prompts the player to either retry or to quit compared to the usual three options of home/retry/world.
• One Stat to Rule Them All: Initially, this game makes it look like DODGE is the best stat but in reality killing enemies faster does the job better than staying alive due to Death Is Cheap. The real game breaker stat is SUM which increases summon by a percentage when coupled with Penelope Coconut as leader since her leader skill guarantees summoning from the start of turn one and can easily keep the summon chain going on with proper setup. CRIT comes in a close second as it increases the percentage of chance for every individual attack to be at 2x its normal damage.
• Player Versus Player: You can battle against other players. Though the game does not contain true PvP, as the teams are randomly computer generated and the opponents' avatars are submitted ahead of time in contests held throughout the game's development cycle.
• Playing with Fire:
  • Blaz performs a fire kick at his enemies when summoned.
  • With a gesture, Inferno launches a wall of fire towards his enemies when summoned.
• Power of the Void: Penelope Coconut swings her sword which creates a black hole that decodes everything into unexistence when summoned.
• Pure Energy: Cindy casts a purple colored lightning strike which hits the target and targets behind the initial target.
• Shock and Awe:
  • DJ Lyte first calls down lightning from the skies via his mixgear, then wraps himself in said lightning before tackling his enemies which transfer that lightning to those enemies when summoned.
  • Kilios rams into its enemies with a lightning axe causing thunder to crash down from the skies at the moment of impact.
• Shout-Out: The game over screen from the bullet hell minigame invokes the classic Blue Screen Of Death; the background is blue (but much more saturated than the real thing — it's close to #00f); the text is white but it tells you to quit or retry rather than restarting your device.
• Silent Protagonist: Zigzagged, conversed, and discussed.
  • The Protagonist initially starts being able to speak, but loses their memory after the tutorial (or after simply naming your character if you skipped the tutorial) and does not speak throughout the majority of story mode. They briefly regain their ability to speak when Ellie isn't there to speak for them and also during challenge quests.
  • Creator Luni directly states to The Protagonist in universe that they created them as a Silent Protagonist.
    Creator Luni: "OH THAT'S RIGHT. YOU CAN'T TALK BECAUSE I CREATED YOU TO BE A SILENT PROTAGONIST!"
  • Ellie expresses shock at The Protagonist in universe for suddenly regaining the ability to speak.
    Ellie: "Eep~! Don't scare me like that PlayerName! I'm not used to you talking!"
• Soul Power: Nyxeria Luiselle summons her wolf spirit to bite through every enemy when summoned.
• Space Master: Ribbon-tied Phantom trips and summons a portal of death that damages his enemies when he is summoned.
• Star Power: Starlight Ellie drops numerous yellow five-star gacha stars onto all enemies when summoned.
• Summon Magic: Prominently shown in three characters. Other examples are too common and unremarkable or has some other more remarkable trait than for them to be listed here.
  • Ellie is credited for summoning you into the game as The Protagonist that saves nine worlds and more throughout the game's story mode and beyond.
  • The Protagonist is the gacha summoner which summons five pre-slotted beings which agree beforehand to being summoned (meaning you have to already have gacha'd them first to use them) if they are holding onto the gacha sword or randomly summons any units that are already seen in story mode with the help of Creator Luni's newly coded function after the sword is confiscated by Ellie in the True Final Boss battle.
  • Creator Luni requests for your help on an experiment later on in a challenge quest named Gacha League where she creates units from scratch (resembles some of the units that can be obtained from gacha but has the wrong elemental type sometimes) to attack you.
• Technopath: Nova Blade when fought as the boss of Neon City, is guarded by a high-tech shield and two sentry drones each equipped with a minigun and he himself uses a minigun to attack.
• Time Master: Shishi stops time for two turns after being summoned to deal her attack damage and also a free turn for the player to make whatever move they so desire.
• True Final Boss: Ellie gets taken over by corruption and snatches your weapon to use against you after Final Boss gets defeated in the story and you have to fight her.

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