Girls' Frontline

About

Girls' Frontline is a strategy SLG featuring redesigned rules and a fabulous story, where players command an elite team of "T-Dolls" - female androids with personality and abilities based on real firearms. The game boasts ingenious visuals, a phenomenal soundtrack, and plenty of humor, but can be bogged down by bugs, grinding, and optimization issues. Despite its flaws, the wholesome and immersive experience offered by Girls' Frontline has captured the hearts of many.

Genres & Tags

Strategy

Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

76%

Audience ScoreBased on 4,524 reviews

story331 positive mentions

grinding131 negative mentions

Great story and character designs, with a surprisingly deep narrative that keeps players engaged.
Extremely free-to-play friendly, allowing players to obtain all characters without spending money.
Fun and addictive gameplay that combines strategy with resource management.

The game frequently crashes and has issues with downloading updates, making it unplayable for some users.
The user interface can be cluttered and confusing, especially for new players.
The game requires a significant amount of storage space, which can be a barrier for players with limited device capacity.

story
644 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story of the game is widely praised for its depth, emotional complexity, and engaging narrative, often described as surprisingly well-written for a mobile title. Players appreciate the intricate character development and the darker themes that unfold as the plot progresses, making it a standout feature that keeps them invested. Despite some criticisms regarding pacing and occasional bugs, the overall consensus is that the story is a significant draw, elevating the game above typical gacha experiences.
- “The story is its strong point: beautiful characters, a complex and tremendously emotional plot.”
- “The story is absolutely outstanding for a mobile game, even better than most anime.”
- “This game has a pretty amazing and driven story that hooks the player to dig deeper to find out what happens next.”
- “The story is lacking in flair, but still enjoyable.”
- “The story is garbage now and seeing into the future shows it's getting worse.”
- “The story is obvious, just like any other anime game, and the amount of grinding is insanely stupid.”
gameplay
446 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
48%
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The gameplay is characterized by its strategic depth and complexity, requiring players to manage resources, troop formations, and micromanagement during battles. While many find it enjoyable and challenging, some criticize it for being repetitive and grindy, with occasional issues like lag and a confusing interface. Overall, the game offers a mix of tactical gameplay and engaging story elements, appealing to both casual and dedicated players, though it may not be for everyone due to its steep learning curve and resource management demands.
- “The gameplay is fun for anyone who likes a more strategic take on their gacha games.”
- “The gameplay is solid and relies upon you matching up your T-dolls in formation to optimize their stats and match their abilities properly.”
- “The gameplay, while quite fast-paced within the context of fights, can feel repetitive.”
- “The gameplay is easy to learn but very difficult to master, and with new enemies being added along with new boss mechanics, there is always something new to learn and build around.”
- “The gameplay can be a little bit intrusive and tiresome.”
grinding
133 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
2%
98%
The game is widely described as grindy, particularly in the late stages, requiring significant time investment to progress, especially for leveling characters and completing events. While some players find the grinding enjoyable and manageable due to features like auto-battle and strategic gameplay, others feel it becomes tedious and repetitive, especially when compounded by technical issues and a lack of meaningful rewards. Overall, the grind is seen as a common aspect of gacha games, with mixed opinions on its impact on enjoyment and progression.
- “The game is incredibly free-to-play and isn't too grindy.”
- “If you're not grinding constantly to gear up or miss events, it will snowball into a situation where you can't clear major events since there are no stage difficulty choices.”
- “The only issue I have is that once you get a bit farther into the game, it gets a bit grindy and it takes a lot of time to do logistics.”
- “The gameplay is grindy (mainly the leveling, core hells) but the difficulty and duration for events are reasonable, so new players can still get event-exclusive dolls just in time!”
- “The only problem I have with it is that it can sometimes be really slow and tedious to log in; I've gotten stuck on login screens multiple times.”
graphics
107 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics of the game are generally praised for their high quality and appealing art style, particularly the character designs, which often feature a chibi aesthetic that complements the darker themes of the story. However, some players have noted issues with lag, complicated UI, and occasional censorship of artwork, which detracts from the overall experience. Despite these drawbacks, many players appreciate the visuals and find them to be a significant highlight of the game.
- “The artwork used in-game isn't all over the place but follows the chosen theme very closely.”
- “The stories good, the graphics, character designs, and storytelling is grand.”
- “The artwork is amazing and detailed.”
- “A mediocre gacha game with wildly varying art styles (most of which seem outdated or low res), lag filled UI (on an S10 Edge), poorly explained combat, and overall boring gameplay.”
- “However, please optimize the game even though there's not much graphics in the game, the game still lags which is annoying because I cannot watch my t-dolls combat because of lag.”
- “Stages are so gimmicky, annoying boss fights, account limitations you have to pay too much to overcome, constant resource grinding just to keep up, not to mention outdated graphics and gameplay at this point.”
stability
93 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
3%
97%
The game's stability is a significant concern among users, with frequent reports of freezing and crashing across various devices, particularly after recent updates. Many players experience issues during loading screens, combat menus, and while navigating the user interface, rendering the game largely unplayable for extended periods. While some users note improvements in stability over time, the overall consensus indicates that persistent bugs and glitches severely hinder the gaming experience.
- “Haven't played in quite a while, so I can't speak to the game's current state, but this was probably one of the strongest mobile games I've played. It's pretty bug-free, extremely free-to-play friendly, with truly challenging scenarios (especially events) and a great story.”
- “The game runs great overall, though it does slow down at times when loading.”
- “Runs great with solid gameplay for what it is, fair gacha mechanics, and nice art.”
- “I have been playing for years, after every update I do not get to play because the game freezes either while loading to home screen, or into battle.”
- “Game is unplayable right now, I get greeted with a black screen and it just basically freezes.”
- “Unfortunately, after the last update I am unable to play as the game freezes on every startup on the menu after login.”
music
56 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is consistently praised as outstanding, with many reviewers highlighting its non-generic soundtrack and the involvement of talented artists. Players appreciate the immersive and catchy tunes that enhance the overall experience, often describing the soundtrack as one of the game's standout features. Overall, the music complements the engaging story and appealing art, contributing significantly to the game's appeal.
- “The story and soundtrack are awesome, the chess-like missions are fun and make me think before I act more often, and the characters are incredible.”
- “Non-generic soundtrack, solid roster of artists.”
- “Great music, great gameplay, great aesthetics, lots of different gun tactical dolls to obtain and hella grinding.”
- “Great game, but with the new update it won't update, keeps saying my storage is full when though I have 16 gigs free.”
- “The music at the start sounds like the old Ace Combat games on PS2.”
- “Please release the soundtrack.”
optimization
54 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's optimization has received overwhelmingly negative feedback, with users reporting poor performance, frequent frame rate drops, and long loading times, particularly on lower-end devices. While some updates have improved stability and reduced storage requirements, many players still experience significant lag and bugs, leading to frustration over the lack of consistent optimization. Overall, the game's performance issues detract from an otherwise enjoyable experience, with calls for better management and responsiveness from developers regarding these concerns.
- “Really nice performance on low-end devices.”
- “Update: they've now significantly improved the game stability as well as optimized it to take up far less storage space.”
- “Fantastic story, fun and lovable characters, amazing optimization, and I can't wait for more!”
- “Its such an old game and not optimized for modern devices.”
- “Terribly optimized, riddled with bugs, questionable management regarding content releases.”
- “The performance of this game is purely bad, I play this game on a ROG 5 phone with Snapdragon 888 and can't even pass more than 35 fps during battle!”
monetization
54 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The monetization in this game is largely optional, with microtransactions primarily offering cosmetic items and upgrades rather than essential gameplay advantages. Players appreciate the absence of intrusive ads and the ability to earn in-game currency, making progression feasible without spending money, although some express frustration with the gacha mechanics and the potential for paywalls. Overall, the monetization system is viewed as fair and non-aggressive, allowing for a satisfying experience for both free-to-play and paying users.
- “Progressing with in-app purchases is completely optional.”
- “The art is amazing, the characters are fun, the story is very engaging, and microtransactions are never required.”
- “All in-game purchases are just cosmetics, so none of that pay-to-win nonsense.”
- “This would be great if it weren't a free-to-play gacha game, with all the dreadful baggage that brings in terms of predatory monetization.”
- “The game would have been great if it weren't meant to be playable mostly only if you purchase in-app purchases, as it's nearly impossible to proceed otherwise, and they're expensive.”
- “Microtransactions I get, but high prices and lowering chances of good draws is taking it too far.”
character development
35 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Character development in the game is generally praised for its depth and engaging storytelling, with many reviewers highlighting the rich lore and well-crafted narratives. While character designs are often described as beautiful and appealing, some players note inconsistencies in style that detract from the overall experience. Overall, the combination of strong character design and compelling storylines contributes to a positive reception, despite some critiques regarding character design coherence.
- “The girls are beautiful and rich with personality, the gacha is fair and easy to grind, the gameplay is simple to understand but still provides challenges at higher levels and above all else, the story is so perfectly crafted with deep lore, character development, and drama.”
- “Gameplay is good fun and rewards putting thought into your formations and synergizing characters' buffs, as well as manually timing and activating abilities (auto is an option though, as is a hybrid mixture), character designs are all really nice with even nicer ones coming in future updates.”
- “Beautiful character design, probably one of the best in gacha games.”
- “The cons: character designs are all over the place, ranging from vibrant neon colored urban strap jackets to old military uniforms.”
- “Devs are increasingly changing character designs even ones that aren't actually bad.”
- “I love the story and the character designs, it hurts to give the game 3 stars.”
emotional
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The emotional aspect of the game is highlighted by its deeply engaging and heart-wrenching storyline, which features beautifully crafted characters and a complex plot that resonates with players. Many reviewers express a strong attachment to the characters, experiencing a range of emotions from joy to heartbreak throughout their journey. The combination of a rich narrative, challenging gameplay, and a well-designed gacha system contributes to an overall emotionally rewarding experience.
- “The story is its strong point: beautiful characters, a complex and tremendously emotional plot.”
- “I found myself becoming very attached to the characters, and at one point almost got pretty emotional.”
- “The story is incredibly emotional and tense, and the gameplay always provides a good challenge that makes me use my head.”
humor
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is widely appreciated, with players highlighting the hilarious character development and funny moments that balance the serious gameplay. While many found the humor engaging and enjoyable, some suggested that the game occasionally takes itself too seriously and could benefit from more comedic elements. Overall, the combination of cute characters and funny scenarios contributes to a fun and entertaining experience.
- “The division had absolutely hilarious character building and payoff, and it was over 60,000 words!”
- “I enjoyed the mission-based play of this game and its focus on both humor and serious strategy gameplay.”
- “Great game overall, wonderful artwork and funny characters with plenty of depth.”
replayability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Players note that the recent client update has significantly reduced lag, enhancing the overall gameplay experience and contributing positively to the game's replayability.