Reviews for Umamusume: Pretty Derby

It can be fun, but it's still a gacha game. It's designed to be as annoying and unhelpful as possible to get you to pay for more pulls so you can upgrade your characters. The game does a horrible job of explaining mechanics. You need to have 20 guides open telling you exactly what to do and when just to have a chance to actually finish a career. Even if you do that, the game can just decide you lose, despite telling you beforehand that you were guaranteed to win

I'm completely new to Umamusume. Ever since the game was released globally, I can't stop seeing this game get advertised or be played by people. Came to check out what the hype is all about. Game's fun, characters as well as the stories are very appealing, the localisation is really well done. I guess my only complain is that the volume is too low, volume is set to max on both phone and game settings, though that could just be a "my device" problem. Overall, it's a great game. Still enjoying it.

Would be a nice game if it worked. It spends a lot more time reconnecting than everything else combined (on a connection that's not great but good enough for lots of other games). About 90% of common English words are considered "invalid characters" by the club chat function. And if another app pops up a notification when you've gotten the claw machine mini-game but before you actually start it, you auto-lose the mini-game instead of playing it.

Love the characters...but that's about it. Getting enough resources for a summon or to raise potential is a struggle. An honest explanation as to which stat does what is HIGHLY needed, as you're only told a sliver of info when you severely lose a race in career mode. The devs do their job well (bug fixes and what not). Also, the story doesn't copy the anime, so if you're excited about some things that happen in the anime...get ready for a surprise.

I love the game a lot, but my only problem is the rng for the support cards and getting new uma's because usually I get something bad I understand it's supposed to be like that but I tried almost 8 different times and only got 1 SSR for the whole time I tried it, that's pretty much it though. also, if you're gonna play the game, you have to put time into it. You can't just win every single career you play. That's how it works. You put time, and you win

It's really fun, but also frustrating. I want to love it but constantly replaying the same careers to experiment with the optimal skill cards and legacies gets old and boring. It feels very unrewarding and almost pay to win if you don't have optimal skill cards for your uma. At some point you just get tired and want to give up. Also for weeks the "connecting..." issue is ridiculous and is even in the steam version as well.

The game as a whole is fun and the characters and stories make it worth playing in your down time. However the cost for pulls is very high and the amount of free currency you get is limited and locked behind the PvP aspect meaning like any other gatcha game you're gonna have to shell out for more pulls to get good results. If you're playing casually then the game is great but beyond that you're looking into an ocean of whales and super experienced players waiting to drag you down.

Initially a fun and charming game with high production values, but can get too repetitive due to lack of long-term content and missions requiring you to do same task for hours daily. Also the cash-shop is much too expensive for what it offers and current accelerated schedule makes pulling feel not worth it as you only get a week for a new character before they are gone and its 200 pulls for guarantee.

My favorite mobile game in years! The characters are complex and well-realized, the art style is appealing, and it's challenging but fun. My only two complaints are 1. the connection issues, this has been a problem since launch, and 2. the hints lie and need to be reworked. The hints suggest a jack-of-all-trades for your stats but that will not let you win career mode. I only have 1 A-rank racer which is a shame, because I can't win any PVP even though I've beaten many careers.

Characters and overall atmosphere are great. Very fun in small doses. The problem is that absolutely everything is heavily luck based. The sheer amount of randomness is infuriating. You will get completely screwed over by the random number generator, and constantly fail through no fault of your own, a majority of the time. Success doesn't feel rewarding because it's not earned, either. You have hilariously little control over anything at all. Still a fun cute game as long as you don't tryhard.