Zerowake GATES

Item: Zerowake GATES
Rating: 29
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-11-28

Summary

Highly engaging, strategic gameplay experience.
Excellent art, appealing characters, strong BL focus.
Engaging and curious plot development.
Severe, poorly executed censorship is a major issue.
Generic combat, AI art, and low-res visuals.
Frequent technical issues, inadequate language localization.

Emotions

Disappointment33%Frustration23%Satisfaction11%Hope6%Confusion4%

Sample precision
Helpful reviews: 78%
Unhelpful reviews: 21%
Protest reviews: 1%

29%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
71%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 102
Negative points: 222
Gameplay points: 22
Perf. points: 5
Rec. points: 46
Misc points: 43

Point	Description	Importance
Highly engaging and enjoyable Description Players find the game's core concept, compelling story, attractive characters, and overall presentation highly engaging and fun. The smooth gameplay, unique art style, and emotional storytelling contribute to a very positive experience, with noted improvements since beta. Importance 55%	Players find the game's core concept, compelling story, attractive characters, and overall presentation highly engaging and fun. The smooth gameplay, unique art style, and emotional storytelling contribute to a very positive experience, with noted improvements since beta.	55%
Excellent art and characters Description The game receives consistent praise for its beautiful art style, detailed character designs, and high-quality voice acting/dubbing. These elements contribute to well-developed characters with distinct personalities and strong chemistry. Importance 28%	The game receives consistent praise for its beautiful art style, detailed character designs, and high-quality voice acting/dubbing. These elements contribute to well-developed characters with distinct personalities and strong chemistry.	28%
Strong BL and character appeal Description The game successfully caters to the Boys' Love (BL) community with attractive male characters and well-adapted BL Manhwa stories. Players appreciate the beautifully written BL narratives and specific suggestive content, despite some mention of censorship. Importance 16%	The game successfully caters to the Boys' Love (BL) community with attractive male characters and well-adapted BL Manhwa stories. Players appreciate the beautifully written BL narratives and specific suggestive content, despite some mention of censorship.	16%
Engaging and curious plot Description The storyline is a significant draw, described as good, pleasant, and enjoyable. It consistently sparks player curiosity and effectively maintains interest through its main narrative and additional side stories. Importance 12%	The storyline is a significant draw, described as good, pleasant, and enjoyable. It consistently sparks player curiosity and effectively maintains interest through its main narrative and additional side stories.	12%
Strategic and fun mechanics Description The combat system is well-received for its strategic depth, providing an engaging experience. Specific mechanics, such as the 'bond system' and 'Esper-Guide concept', are highlighted as particularly fun and meaningful additions to gameplay. Importance 12%	The combat system is well-received for its strategic depth, providing an engaging experience. Specific mechanics, such as the 'bond system' and 'Esper-Guide concept', are highlighted as particularly fun and meaningful additions to gameplay.	12%
Positive gacha mechanics Description Players generally report a positive experience with the gacha system, appreciating its integration with visual novel elements and often favorable pull rates. This contributes to player satisfaction with character acquisition. Importance 9%	Players generally report a positive experience with the gacha system, appreciating its integration with visual novel elements and often favorable pull rates. This contributes to player satisfaction with character acquisition.	9%
Immersive audio design Description The game's music and sound design are praised for their quality and ability to create an immersive atmosphere. The soundtrack effectively enriches the romantic elements, while funny sound effects add a charming touch. Importance 8%	The game's music and sound design are praised for their quality and ability to create an immersive atmosphere. The soundtrack effectively enriches the romantic elements, while funny sound effects add a charming touch.	8%
Appreciated collaboration characters Description The inclusion of popular collaborated Manhwa and webtoon characters is a significant highlight, with players enjoying their interactions. There is also considerable excitement and anticipation for future collaborative content. Importance 7%	The inclusion of popular collaborated Manhwa and webtoon characters is a significant highlight, with players enjoying their interactions. There is also considerable excitement and anticipation for future collaborative content.	7%
Accessible and engaging design Description The game is noted for its moderate puzzle difficulty and effective scene atmosphere that encourages player progression. Its free-to-play model also contributes to its accessibility and broad appeal. Importance 6%	The game is noted for its moderate puzzle difficulty and effective scene atmosphere that encourages player progression. Its free-to-play model also contributes to its accessibility and broad appeal.	6%
Excellent animations and cutscenes Description Players appreciate the high-quality animations and well-produced cutscenes, which enhance the visual storytelling and overall presentation of the game. Importance 5%	Players appreciate the high-quality animations and well-produced cutscenes, which enhance the visual storytelling and overall presentation of the game.	5%

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