Top 7 Best F2P-Friendly Mobile Gacha Games 2022

Mobile games typically get a bad rep for being pay-to-win and riddled with microtransactions, and look, we’re not here to dispute that. It’s absolutely true. If you want to have any hope of breaking into the top 1% of the leaderboard rankings for any mobile game, you’ll need to shell out some cash.

However, that’s not to say that there aren’t a few good ones out there that are actually very friendly to free-to-play players or light spenders. With that in mind, here’s a rundown of the best F2P-friendly mobile gacha games you can play in 2022.

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1- Azur lane tier list

 

 Starting off with an oldie but a goodie, Azur Lane has been in the mobile game scene for years, but it’s still going strong even today. The game is known for its large roster of ship girls, as well as its fairly simple bullet hell gameplay that you can chew through easily.

More importantly, however, Azur Lane is also best known for being one of the most generous gacha games on the market right now. This game is extremely liberal with handing out premium currencies, allowing players to pull on almost every banner that comes along. The bulk of Azur Lane’s revenus comes from skins and cosmetics, so that’s not really all that surprising but still, for folks who enjoy the thrill of pulling for characters, Azur Lane lets you do it very frequently without needing you to spend a dime.

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2- counter side tier list

 

 In a similar vein, Counter Side tier list also likes encouraging its players to pull by showering them in premium currency. This game has been available on the SEA server for a while now, but has only recently gotten a proper global launch.

Counter Side tier list has quickly become one of the most popular mobile gacha games on the market thanks to the free 10 pulls that it gives to players every day on the regular banner, as well as the ease of earning blue tickets just from doing dailies and playing the game. Just like Azur Lane, Counter Side tier list also leans heavily into skins and cosmetics, allowing players to pull regularly while trusting that the most diehard fans will pay for those extra skins.

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3- Blue Archive Tier list

 

 Blue Archive is one of the best side games available right now, thanks to how little time and commitment you need to clear your dailies. Its sweep functionality lets you farm stages easily, and building your characters isn’t some insane, soul-crushing grind either.

While its pull rates might not be quite as good as most other gacha games, Blue Archive makes up for it with generous event and login rewards, and also frequently showers players with Pyroxenes during rotating events that only need minimal participation. Tie that together with the fact that a lot of units can actually be farmed by doing hard quest sweeps, and you’ll find that you can build a good team fairly easily if you’re willing to sink the time into it.

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4- War of the Visions

 

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius might be the most underrated game on this list, but it’s definitely a personal favorite of mine. While it certainly didn’t have the greatest launch two years ago, with absolutely brutal banners that had no pity system in place, and really abysmal rewards, it’s definitely gotten a lot better over the past few months.

As an F2P player, the key to succeeding in War of the Visions is being diligent with your dailies and farming the crap out of every event that comes around. It’s definitely one of the grindiest gacha games out there, but it’s also a title that really rewards players who stick around for the long-term. Without spending a single cent, it’s possible to build top tier PvP teams if you’re able to pick out just two or three elements that you want to invest in.

Combine that with careful Visiore planning, and you should be able to pull for most characters that fall in any of your three elements that come around. War of the Visions also features special Visiore Back banners during new collaborations, allowing players to potentially double their amount of Visiore if they have enough saved up.

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5- Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia

 

 On the flip side, Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia is one of the more casual Final Fantasy-themed gacha games. It also happens to be among the most F2P-friendly mobile games you can play right now.

Similar to Azur Lane tier list and Counter Side tier list, DFFOO also loves showering players in gems. The game doesn’t really feature any cosmetics, and most of the characters can be obtained through completing story quests. The gacha mostly comes in the form of weapons, which you should definitely pull for if you want to take your team to the next level, but considering how generous this game is, most players won’t have any issues in building a really solid team.

The only downside is that the Dissidia-style of gameplay where you have to perform Bravery attacks before HP attacks can be a bit divisive, and may not be for everyone.

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6- Destiny Child gacha

 

 As we wait for Nikke: Goddess of Victory to finally get a set release date, fans can occupy themselves by playing Shift Up’s other game instead, Destiny Child. Not to be confused with with the popular American girl group with Beyonce, Michelle Williams, and Kelly Rowland, Destiny Child is one of the most fanservice-y waifu collector games available now.

If that’s your thing, you’ll also be very pleased to know that yes, Destiny Child is also extremely generous to its F2P players. The in-game shop features some really terrible deals and poorly priced packs, but the good news is that your dailies are more than sufficient enough to get you a 10x pull every three days or so, and you’ll get even more during special events.

Destiny Child’s currency income is so generous that as long as you aren’t just spending everything willy-nilly, most F2P players will be able to save up for almost every banner and still have some left over.

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7- Another Eden

 Another Eden is an interesting one on this list, as it isn’t exactly all that generous with its handouts per se. However, it’s unique in that it’s a full-fledged turn-based JRPG experience that you can enjoy without spending anything.

This is a game from the team that wrote Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, and you can really tell where it gets its inspirations from within the first few minutes. Another Eden dabbles with time travel, allowing you to visit the same locales in different time periods and recruit various characters to your party. The story is actually pretty decent for a mobile game as well, and I could definitely see this appealing to a lot of JRPG fans.

On the gacha side of things, new players will also be pleased to know that all of the collaboration events are permanent (save for Chrono Cross, which will expire in a few years), which means that you can grab those new characters at any time without feeling pressured. The Persona 5 characters are well-worth getting, as are the Tales of characters, and their stories all feel like they’ve been well thought out instead of simple cash grabs as we’ve seen in so many other collaborations.

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