Gacha Life is a 2018 Casual Video Game, part Virtual Paper Doll part Friendship Sim, centered around Animesque Chibi characters, developed by Lunime and part of their wider Gacha series.

In Gacha Life, you can create and customize your own chibi characters, which you can set them up for a scene in the Studio mode, or take the role of one of them and interact with and befriend the NPCs in the Life mode. As for the "Gacha" part, you can spend Gacha gems on Gachas and earn gifts from them and gift them to the NPCs.

In other words, it's just a fun cutesy game with little meaning other than creating chibi characters and having fun with them.

You can download the PC version here, as well as the mobile version with extra features (such as online chat and roleplay) from App Store and Google Play.

A sequel known as Gacha Club was released on June 29, 2020, with more customization options and a Role-Playing Game mode replacing the friendship sim mode. A second sequel and follow-up, Gacha Life 2, was released on October 10, 2023.

Gacha Life provides examples of:

• Ad Reward: Players can watch ads in order to earn a random number of gems, which are used in the gacha portion to earn gifts to give other characters.
• Afraid of Blood: Despite working as an assassin, the sight of blood ironically makes Jae nauseous.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: You can color your character's skin red, blue, whatever!
• Ambidextrous Sprite: This trope appears in spades. There are many cases of props changing hands, eyepatches changing eyes, and even scars changing sides based on which way the characters are facing.
• Animesque: The game's artstyle definitely falls under this, complete with notable Japanese Visual Arts Tropes (Anime Hair, Big Anime Eyes, etc.).
• Beast Man: Picc and Pawket, two raccoon girls who form a music duo called "Bandits".
• Big Head Mode: By accessing Meme Mode by clicking the button with three dots four times, you can change your character's head size, including to big.
• Bland-Name Product: There are too many examples to count:
  • Rudolph likes to drink McDaniels frappes.
  • Spring sends pictures to her friends of Snaptalk and likes to shop at Sephori.
  • Candie’s favorite cereal is Ducky Charms.
• Cat Girl:
  • Senpaibuns, a Magical Girl with sleep-themed powers and decidedly not a fox girl.
  • Rambo Nyan Kitty, a Cloud Cuckoolander one who loves using cat puns.
  • Subverted with Moe and her glitched counterpart m o. Moe quizzes you on how soft her ears are and how fast she can wag her tail while m o speaks in a corrupted format l i k e d i s. And even though she may have the appearance of a cat girl, she's actually a dog girl, as revealed when you talk to her.
• Dating Sim: Life mode is essentially a platonic version of this. You can talk with, ask, gift, and answer Pop Quizzes from the NPCs (the preset characters) and increase your friendships with them.
• Digital Avatar: Your character can serve as this for you.
• Does This Make Me Look Fat?: Satsuna asks the player avatar if she looks fat in her uniform.
• Emoticon: Various characters speak using emoticons throughout the game.
  Daisy: … Ya lookin at me? (｡ ｡)
  Midori: I’m scared of bugs >.<
  FuuKuma: OwO H-Hewwo, Fuu-Chan here~!
  Senpai Artz: I’m a clumsy bean ;w;
• Extracurricular Enthusiast: Misty is on the student council, the math team, and the academic club.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The principal of the school in Life Mode is called Mr. Principal.
• Fingerless Hands: Every character only has a thumb for each of their hands, making them look like mittens.
• Five-Second Rule:
  Caleb: If I pick up my cookie in 5 seconds, it’s okay to eat, right?
• For Happiness: Emma’s goal is to spread love and joy to everyone around town, and she tries to cheer up 3 strangers each day.
• The Ghost: Carma’s best friend Dana, who got her into anime and named the girl from her nightmares “Carla”, is not seen on-screen.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Senpaibuns and Lado both collect stuffed animals as a hobby, and Leafu has around 20 plushies.
• Little Bit Beastly: Some hair options have cat/pointed canine/bunny/bear ears, and you can add tails to your character.
  • Subverted with the NPC Bex as it is revealed by Fierin that her raccoon tail is actually fake.
• Love Triangle: Senpai Artz has a crush on Radd, and is constantly worried about someone “stealing” him from her. Unfortunately for her, Radd likes Senpaibuns, and only sees her as a friend. This causes Senpai Artz to be incredibly jealous of Senpaibuns, calling her a devil.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Thorn has 17 siblings.
• Older Than They Look: Downplayed; People often mistake Carma for being 16, but she’s really 18.
• Oral Fixation: Damian chews on a piece of wheat to focus.
• Pop Quiz: When you reach the Friendship Level of 5, the NPC can give you a short 10-question quiz over the information you've asked them for. Huge rewards await for those who ace.
• Prefers Going Barefoot: Senpai Artz hates shoes and refuses to wear them, only wearing socks to school.
  Senpai Artz: Fluff shoes!
• Public Domain Soundtrack: Not necessarily public domain, but the game uses royalty-free music provided by DOVE-SYNDROME.
• Rich Boredom: Hime-Sama deals with this by learning every instrument in the world, just to kill time.
• Scunthorpe Problem: Infamously, every word with the letter sequence a-s-s is censored, resulting in things like "cl***ic", "br***", etc.
• Shipper on Deck: Phantom thinks that Luni and Pat would be nice together.
• Sleep Mask: Senpaibuns wears a sleep mask all the time, because she is a dream-themed Magical Girl.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Why does Satsuna have 20 spears?
  Satsuna: Haha, silly, I didn’t steal them! [sweats nervously]
• Surfer Dude: Brody, a surfer who likes sports, fishing, and music.
• Tamer and Chaster: Previous Gacha games would include fully humanoid anime characters, some serving Fanservice. Gacha Life focuses on Chibi characters and more on the cute than sexy.
• Tastes Like Chicken: Brody claims that lobster tastes like chicken.
• Temporal Theme Naming: There are 4 NPCs named after the 4 seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.
• Thunderbolt Iron: Enzo’s sword is made of “asteroid diamonds”.
• Trademark Favorite Food: You can set your character's favorite food.
  • Bex's favorite food is chicken nuggets, and her minigame has you try to catch all the nuggets without any touching the ground.
• Unusual Ears: Since all models have human ears, putting on hair with Little Bit Beastly ears creates Fridge Logic.
• Video Game Perversity Potential: Inevitable for a character design/roleplay game. It was possible to dress up your character in skimpy clothing (and even color their clothes the color of their skin!) and pose them to resemble sexual acts, as well as let them say any phrase at your will. This got so out of hand that Lunime released a patch to remove all of this potential.
• Virtual Paper Doll: The entire point of the game. You can create a character and refine their body, hair, facial features, clothing, and profile, coming up with endless combinations. The fandom regularly circulates character and outfit ideas.
• Water Is Womanly: Lado is a girly, blue haired Cat Girl whose element is water.
• Weredragon: Satsuna can transform into a dragon, but she only does so in case of emergency.