Why is Nikke a MASSIVE Success? 

Because the devs made this game 'singlehandedly'. Truly a master of their craft.

The Nikke national motto. "Play for the jiggle, stay for the fun"

Every "unlike genshin" feels so personal and I'm 100% on your side lmao.

Not to mention that the devs know their guns. As a gun nerd, each reload animation is awesome

The efforts they putting in and the thoughts everything counts, they care about player feedback.

Nikke had quite the rocky start - massive damage nerfs due to BP deficits which gatekept progression, expensive pulls relative to cost, loading screen crashes, the first event (NO CALLER ID) with a hard mode that was nigh unplayable even for day one players, limitations of vertical screen etc. The first X'Mas event was what convinced me that Nikke had what it takes to keep going. From Anne's heartwarming story, to the actually fun minigame that wasn't RNG-based, click to progress like the previous ones, to the first interactive map we had, Miracle Snow had it all. Then they reduced the damage nerf from BP deficits, the PC client came out, the main story legitimately got better into Chapters 12 and beyond, they made an actual playable NPC for a one day April Fool's event, Overzone coming in with one of the best stories I've seen in a mobile game, players getting at least 10 free pulls every event... Nikke just kept giving and giving. The reason I play it avidly is because ShiftUp has proven to me that they care about their customers - far more than Mihoyo, Nexon, and Lasengle etc have.

20 free draws from each bi-weekly event alone and another 10 just for logging in. Than we have Genshin... "thank you for being for us all of these years, here's 3 wishes"

Something that i like about nikke is their events and bonds side storys. Sometimes could be a goofy side story that is very enjoyable and sometimes it can be a really well written story like overzone and the fist christmas event.

The music is what gets me going through the game. Cosmograph just won't stop cooking

The moment the red hood update dropped and i was in the discord channel with 100 people from around the world where people streamed their pulls was one of the best gaming experience i had in my whole life. the community is extemely welcoming and nice

We're all gonna make it bois!

You are hands down the best Nikke CC I know. Love your guides and other content!

I think one of the most crucial factors to Nikke success is the way they handled the very first few months of the game. Being complete honest the game was very rough... very time consuming, grindy, not optimized and "sketchy" but you know what good thing it had? A good Main and Side stories to tell, and it had A LOT of stories to tell. Their strategy of keeping their players engage with good story telling WHILE they were polishing and fixing the rough edges was absolutely clever. I definetly would not have stayed with Nikke if it didn't have a good story from the beginning, but after year and a half I'm happy for the game and it's community :)

the FOMO part of the video made me think about how i was rather unsatisfied having missed the 1st valentines event (since my fav character is soda) but i'm rly glad its being added during the next maid event :)

Every words touches me, and verbalize why i like Nikke. Never played gacha before, Nikke is my first, started playing only 2 weeks after anniversary and been attracted every since. Tried to venture into other gacha, but the gameplay, UI, graphics was just nothing near and just felt like copies with different skin. And your bootcamp series let me appreciate and understand the mechanics of the games even more. ^^

Nikke got me hooked from the very opening and seeing warhammer reference *cough stupid crow tattoo

so glad i picked up Nikke late summer last year, this video made me appreciate the game so much more

I love this game so much. Everyday i actually feel like my characters are becoming better and better, compared to other games i play where it might take weeks for some kind of change. It gives me a sense of accomplishment and i just love the game for making me feel this way. Also, great video! love your content, your videos are one of the biggest parts of my experience with nikke!

Its rare to find a channel on youtube who isn't essentially taking a jab at nikke because "pretty women = bad game" then being surprised its actually really good. Shift up knows their audience and listens to its players, they reward us for our loyalty and we give back just as hard, ive yet to see anyone aside from the casual gacha gamer, or people who have hoyo brainrot complain about nikke, the community is incredible, which says alot considering alot of other gacha games have a community that is at each others throats every other day. Im a prereg player so I've seen this game go from its super rocky beginnings where everything was kinda falling apart daily, to where it is now and its been a wild ride but im here for the long run, hopefully we'll all see each other on the 2nd, 3rd, 10th anniversary of nikke.

What I love from NIKKE is the storyline is top notch and interesting to follow. The main character (commander) really had a personality and not just being a "yes man", he even denied his superior and followed his own ideals at some point. The equipment farming takes so much time, but the progress is measurable, unlike some "artefact" things that probably won't get any better after a whole month of farming because my luck is shit.

Shift up is based

Awesome video, completely agree all with the points you've made. In addition to the community aspect, can't forget about all the memes that have become so engraved in the community (looking at you Doro). Congrats on the great work and channel growth so far, here's to more Nikke content in the future!

It's really nice to have developers who actually listen to player feedback and give generous rewards. Glad to have you in this community too, you helped expedite my understanding of Nikke through all of your video guides.

The devs of Nikke and SHIFT UP in general are incredibly based. The launch of NIKKE may not have been too outstanding but the developers really took onboard player feedback and went above and beyond to improve the game. I'm really happy with the daily loop of NIKKE currently and the content being delivered each patch. Thanks for the video, it was great.

I appreciate your content !!! I’ve been able to get under 3% in every solo raid since

Man gotta say I love your content. Well editing, interesting topics, precise and on point. Hope the game and your channel will be there for many years to come ^ ^

Thank you for making content, love to see uploads from you. It’s been invaluable in maximising Nikke

When they defeated the Coat Devil that was bothering Makima, I knew ShiftUp was a pro player dev. Respect, great video

When they made 2b ass bigger I knew this game was for me.

The fact that characters enter the standard pool after their rate up is really insane. It mean that the rate up banners can give you good characters even when you loose 50/50. As someone who play Nikke, Genshin and Honkai, well in Hoyoverse's games when you loose your 50/50, you end up getting mostly trash characters from a really small pool. For example, when you loose 50/50 in Genshin you can get either : - Qiqi, Dehya or Diluc who are either bad or powercreep, - Jean, Mona, Keqing, Tighnari : average characters, you can be happy to get them once, but you most likely will cry when you will get your third Mona while wishing for Furina's banner. On the other end, in Nikke when you loose 50/50, you can get mostly anything that is currently available in the game. On Scarlet Black Shadow banner, i had a "bad luck" and end up pity her. But in the process, i got regular Scarlet, Red Hood, 2 Litter and some average Nikkes. So, as a new player, more than half of my failed 50/50 improve my account with really good characters, and the other at least give me new characters for collection. In "Gennshin terms", it would be like if i got Nahida, Raiden and 2 Kokomi on Furina's Banner. Pretty insane (and yes, i know that it was lucky, but you still will get strongs characters over time when loosing 50/50 in Nikke). Of course for veterans players who got everything in the game except the new rate up, loosing a 50/50 is bad in Nikke, but at least it's really great for new players to catch up. I'm playing for 5 weeks as a total F2P, and i already got every meta characters. My main problem right now isn't that i don't own the strongest units in the game, it's that i don't own the ressources to build them because you end up getting strong characters faster than you can build characters.

Great video! Just started the game about a month ago and having a blast. Glad I found your content and keep up the good work!

Loving all the new nikke players and creators! Glad you guys are here and Loving this game

You're the only Nikke CC i watch, so keep up the great work. As a, less than a month old player, your guides have helped a lot and been indispensable. So thanks for those. I'm just now starting to collect Tier9 gear, so there is still a lot for me to build. So looking forward to future vids about the game. The Dev's listening to the player base, with in reason of course, means much more to players that many companies realize. It's kinda sad how so few understand the concept of happy players are often playing and/or paying players too, even if it isn't much, it all adds to the bottom line and grows the game.

you're my top nikke youtuber! always looking forward to your video, keep 'em coming!

I'm really enjoy all of your video. Just start playing nikke this year but watching all of your video help me make a lots progress into the game. Hoping for more stuff talk about the game from your channel

Thanks for always do your best to bring the best to us, you deserve much more, i hope to see you with at least 100K subscribers in the future, and now let's wait for the new event now in this week hahaha

Just regret not downloading this last year cuz my phone cant handle the size of it😅 and i forgot about it cuz changed my phone but bro thx for always the tips you give really help me out as a new player for example about the things i really need in the late game and different kinds of tactics keep up the good work 🙏 Lmao infected some of my friends to play this and they liked it 🗿🗿

I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you. I started playing in November in the middle of the Red Hood event. Like most I didn’t think the game had a lot of substance until I got to mid game and hit a bunch of walls. I wanted to break through so started looking for guides on how to get better and found your videos! They have been so helpful in not only making me a better player, but also in unlocking the true greatness of the game. I’m still only 2/5ths of the way through the 160 wall. But yesterday I beat my first special interception in Chatterbox! (Dorthy 1⭐️, Centi 2 ⭐️, Scarlet 0 ⭐️, Modernia 0 ⭐️, and Naga 1 ⭐️) And I am currently pushing the 2nd most damage in my Union with the people around me having 30-40k more attack rating! Thank you for the help, I wouldn’t be enjoying the game or finding so much success without your instruction. Your videos are always SSS tier and the time and effort you put into them is always appreciated. Looking forward to future content. And man I hope I don’t find myself on the wrong end of Futamilk. Now in more ways than one!

love the videos my man only just started playing and your vids are so fun to learn while i play

Just returned this week. I love your videos man. It helped me so much to catch up on what I missed and forgot. Keep up the good work man! 💙

Woops! Almost forgot to subcribe to you kek. Thank you for this video btw. I've been playing NIKKE since day 1 (took a 1~2 months break tho so now I feel very much behind some stuff ack) and I've honestly been ignorant on the community, the financial state of the game, and generally how amazing this gacha game is. Like, I had no clue the community was this great. The only news I got about the community were the few videos that got to my recommended, NIKKE posts on Twitter, and the dead Union I'm in. I didn't even know there was a NIKKE subreddit until I watched your video. I truly took the kindness and thoughtfulness of the game for granted and didn't bother looking outward to keep myself up to date with the community and such. Thank you again "Pseychie" for opening my horizons a little further.

I started just last year with the Nier crossover, since I love that franchise. I intended to drop it since I had never played a gacha game before, and didn't really have much interest. I quickly changed my mind when the story pulled me in, and someone told me to play OverZone, and that was it. Still playing today, and have lots of units, and have only spent money on a couple of the passes. What keeps me around really is the story. The writers for the game are (usually) great.

Yes agree agree agree I love Nikke and your video really said it all. Thanks for the video! Subbing right now can't wait for more Nikke content!

Started with the Nir Collab and I've got all the major hitters ftp and this game feels like being hugged throughout your journey so u won't ever have to worry

As a Years old genshin player who Tried out Nikke , Action enjoyed it and looked for more but had to stop playing because of storage issues and Low end device , I have been also following this game a little for a long time even tho I don't play it anymore just cause its so interesting and I was thinking of going back to playing Nikke and this Video was the motivation. I am planning to stop playing genshin until I get a new device as my current device Can't handle Genshin anymore nor it's Absurd amount of storage needs . Once again Thank you for this great video and YEAH I Play on a Mobile potato phone if anyone was wondering xd

I started playing for the memes as well and haven't missed a day since day 1. I love how transparent and generous the devs are and it really showed in the 1st anniversary livestream. They really went above and beyond with that production (the drone show actually got me a little emotional). I hope they continue to do good on the game, it's a great time to be a Nikke fan

Loved the vid. Keep up the great work

All hail nikke!!!!!!!

You said it, Nikke Community makes the difference. As always, you are doing a great Job. Cheers Pseychie! and i think that you are in the same server as me. All the best to you.

I love this channel man, only peak content about nikke

Loved the video ❤

The only thing I dont like about NIKKE is not getting my pilgrim attacker gears even after months of farming 😭 Overall yeah I love this game.

One thing I love about Nikke is how the devs really put time and effort into the characters, not only the designs and animation but also their personnality. Big things like events are a great intorduction to the characters, but they also have unique Blabla messages, small scenarios in buildings and advise sessions for each Nikke and it really helps give more life to the waifus ! It's just a "simple" gacha game (not an open world like Genshin), but Shift Up still take the time to give a character to the Nikkes. As someone who plays for the collection rather than the meta, it feels even more satisfying to know that I don't just pull for a design :) That and also the fact that I can have a team of very low tier Nikkes and still progress the game very well, Aria and Julia may not be the most powerful but they will always stay in my team

Great video. Still can't stress hard enough how good the story is. I'm genuinely invested in every aspect of the story. And everything else complimented it. I always recomended nikke to my friends

Hey found the post on reddit for this vid and I just want to say thank you for the time and love you put into making this! I'm really glad you talked about how the fan service wasn't the only reason the game is doing well (it's really appreciated though haha 😇🙏)

plus, I love the story, the campaign itself feels like an anime, the plot twists, the curveballs, the whole plot with modernia, the red hood twist, even having the story characters in the gacha, you still remain pretty spoiler free of the story

I think one of the biggest things that impacted Nikke are VTubers, at the very least in terms of promotion. VTubers exploded in popularity over the past couple of years and that coincided with the release of Nikke, not to mention the characters and VTubers being animated similarly. I've seen many promoting the game even to this day and one of the event songs "Satellites" was sung by AmaLee/Monarch, an english vtuber.

Blessings to you my friend and hope the channel keeps growing success 🙌

Hands down to this video.. 🎉 You really hit the points of truth about the game😮

As an addict to the game, I stick around for the music/story/animated scenes/cute characters, the gameplay is great too, but hearing Cosmo slam another banger of a song keeps me around. P.s, I seen that Overzone clip, I won't spoil it but damn..

The UI is what kept me around it's just so good dude. Simple and not overloading.

Awesome video! I agree 100% with each point that you made, since having a company and dev team that communicates with and understands their player base can make a world of difference. I am so glad I stuck with this game from the beginning and at the same time feel sad when people dismiss the game just because they think it's only "coomer bait". If they'd just stick with it for a little longer, they'd realize that behind that obvious fanservice lies a game with a great story, awesome music, simple but fun gameplay and a dev team that actually appreciates their players. Their loss, I guess :D

Best video about Nikke! I play it and it's awesome!

Keep doing your thing man. This is an excellent video to celebrate the success of NIKKE, and there were several things I learned too (mostly other gachas, since I usually don’t play many of them). Totally agree about the importance of garnering good will. Stellar Blade is a game coming out that’s being developed by ShiftUp. Knowing that it’s by ShiftUp just gets me more excited for it, and I’m more willing to spend on these game(s) if it helps keep the company profiting and/or continuing to implement our feedback. Vote with our wallets, I say. Lastly I want to say that your channel’s my favorite for NIKKE guides. It strikes a good balance between entertaining and informative. So much so, that on numerous occasions I’ve gone back to rewatch and replay your channel in the background, while I grind content.

Damnnnnn NO WAY. I knew the name "pseychie" sounds familiar with some random guy who do Deadcells videos lmao. I used to watch your Deadcells content 2 years ago.

I personaly love the story line so much.

Yup I’m agree with what you said here. I started during overzone because some of the story clips got recommended to on youtube, curious and tried it. Now it’s my daily game

I've notice the game also got the attention of many small indie streamers since they actually get at least 1k -3k view+ subscriber after streaming nikke if their reaction to the story are good enough further proving how good the story is

Former Genshin players here, looking forward to being in your communities.

Been watching your Content for a while now love how you describe the Game day 1 player here and man you Really forgot to mention taht the lore is one of the points or how this game is just there to promote the music, other wise good Video

Great videos man, starting following you since january 2024 when i bumped into the game and my first pull was Modernia! You got all right in this vid. This game rocks and by the way I just pulled three ssr's in a ten pull try... I think i am still in the Grace side of it but man i hope this game runs forever 😂

Ironically, I got hooked cause of the first litteral song (tungsten) and said why not. That was atleast 3 or 4 weeks after launch during the miracle snow event. I truly love nikke, the story, event, bond stories are amazing and most of the time I don't check their big plot during mission.

You just made me reinstall and go back to my Nikke account, man. Thanks :)

Great overview on the games success. Ive played so many gatcha games in the past, dedicating years to them. And though some had their victory's, they were short lived. Nikke not only survived its 1st year but celebrated it by rewarding the very players that made had been supporting it and continues to do so. Defiantly have not regretted one bit giving some money here and there to the devs, which is a feeling i rarely get with these games. Im glad as well the community is honestly really good as well.

You get all power from little French community congrats for this very great content about the success of NIKKE I share this on my next stream ! 👍

2:34 i thought the same thing as everyone else, but i started playing it cause of the OST and Bosses.

Wait, we need a video essay for this, i thought it was clear as daylight. The AFK format has been around for awhile, it was just nobody really looked at it seriously. SHIFTUP combined the two best things that casual players like, low bandwidth game that are easy on the surface but have an intricate system and AFK/autoplay mechanics combined with anime titties. The icing on the cake is the actual engaging story

Great vidéo man, thanks

I've started playing this game just 2 weeks before red ash event and this was great decission to even start. There was only 2 or 3 days without my daily login since. As you pointed in the video, daily task are not harsh, they're easy, fast and mostly fun. Story? Is great, story in events? Great extension to know game lore better. There are some drawbacks like known 160 wall but after that i do not see anything that would withdraw joy from it. Really happy that friend of mine showed it to me in point to make fun of it but I've tried and I have zero regrets!

after watching Umineko a year ago, I can now never stop finding Umineko in every single thing I see. It's like becoming a sorcerer in JJK

I think one of the things that got me into Nikke was its excellent choice of (music) artists (and later also artists for character and enemy design and such). I myself have always been a rhythm game player and never been really into gacha games, one time I played FE Heroes and I thought that was nice, but it really didn't struck me. Last year at summer time however I recognized that Feryquitous (one of my favorite artists, especially considering rhythm games) and Cosmograph, another artist known from the rhythm game scene, made music for this game. So I was curious. Could this game really be that "bad" if it had those artists? So naturally I got the game on mobile and was instantly hooked, sometime later getting it on PC and playing since. The soundtrack is awesome, the design is on top, the raptures are cool and above all the Campaign (as well as the most important events) have some amazing lore and worldbuilding, which I also very much appreciate. Even though I must say that I quite frankly was a bit apprehensive playing this game at first I grew to being proud of being part of it and its community. And even if I had a rough start with gacha rates, sometimes your luck really explodes, if only for a moment and then you will be satisfied. So for anyone out there: don't give up! And as for the video: it really encapsulates how different Nikke is from other games its genre, almost always aware of its shortcomings and being considerate about mistakes and opinions of the fan-base. So good work, I will gladly wait and see what you have in store up next!

I enjoy the daily grind of this game plus the OST and story is what got me hooked. Not gonna lie. And of course the rewards are super generous, that I don't always get what I want, but hey. Not gonna dish the game over that. It's a great game overall. Thanks for your content brother. Keep more coming.

wholesome vid, nice one bro

As someone who has been playing NIKKE since day one, I actually forget sometimes on what the devs have change because of the community and actually listen, like the quick fight system. I do agree that the grind on this game isnt as horrible as other games but there is still space to improve such as manufacturer armors, add something to create armor pieces by sacrificing other pieces of the same armor type (my cope is high on this). i do hope they continue to listen mean while the player base continue to support the game and everyone around it (devs, voice actors, content creators, ect)

Nikke clearly has effective psychological manipulation to ensure whales (that usually account for 95% of income) spend $$$$ to compete against each other, maxing out characters for example. Considering the lack of real time pvp like epic seven it seems its more bragging rights than anything. Being at the top of the arena, or tower, something like that.

I'm definitely picking this game up again!

Don't forget we also truly lucky that we got contents creator like you man.

Some missinformation and omitted things to leave here: -The daily quests do not take 15 minutes, they take much longer than that because you have to go through most game modes, and the "skip battle" button is available after clearing that battle in that day. They do not respect the player's time. -The 60 dollars skin are gatcha skins, as in, you have to buy tickets with real money to have a Chance of getting that skin, and they are time-limited. -There is a "purchase with real money" pop-up that you can't permanently block, it appears at random at moments where when you're tapping in the menus, the purchase button appears where you were to tap, which is very slimy to say the least. -Not everything or every event is voice-acted, most of them aren't, except for the pilgrim related ones. -"unlike genshin" you can't clear the story with any unit you want, because rising up levels is a process that takes years of daily grind, the story is level-gated, basically blocking the story. -Considering the "gameplay is king", there isn't much "gameplay" in this game, very rarely you would want to manual play, you can auto-equip artifacts, so it's basically a "I'm just here to see numbers grow" game. The main story is very good but it's very level-gated, the events most of them are silly fillers, with only a few (the ones involving pilgrims) being peak.

Nikke truly was a pleasant surprise. Like many, I decided to try the game on a whim (combination of being bored/looking for a new game) about two months ago. I was expecting a trashy fanservice cash grab game that is unfortunately all too common in the gacha/mobile game space. But after trying it out, the amount of depth to the game genuinely surprised me. As someone who was used to being treated like trash by Genshin before I quit a year and a half in, every point mentioned in the video is pretty on point. I have no qualms about spending the $5 a month just to support the developers even though I usually try to stick to F2P. It just goes to show the age old saying is still true, don't judge a book by its cover!

Great video sums up the nikke experience

Just started early January and man I've been enjoying this game. First gacha and it's a good game to pass time.

And how often we get this kind of style of the gameplay? The last one I’ve saw came close to the gameplay of Nikke is Soul of Sevens

Like most players we played for the jiggles and stayed for the lore/story it really is quite good. nice balance of fanservice and story. Dev communication with the community is an actual thing unlike with Gen and Hoyoverse where players are treated like second class citizens and HSR gets all the goodies.

this is without even mentioning how good the story and writing is :)

I tried the game for the lulz and the obvious fan service but getting through chapter 1 I was like "O snap" and hooked me in. Then it was Overzone and let's not get started with Nya Nya Paradise, how dare you make me have feels towards a Gacha Game!!!!!!!!! Lastly, they released, most, the banger music on spotify

Shots fired to Genshin Anniversary events 😂😂😂 My main games are Honkai Impact 3rd and Azur Lane, now Star Rail and Nikke are added to my list coz of the video’s explanations. Nice vid 👏👏

One of the gacha game that is worth to play in 2024

The one thing I want to add are the SSR crystals that allow you to add obtain a specific character (the higher chance being SSRs). Honestly, it helped me a lot of making sure I had the characters to use for the Synchro Device.

I started playing near the tail end of the Halloween event and I've been going ever since. It is a phenomenal game but there are 2 things I would like to see changed. The SSR drop chances while better than most could still be better and I would like to see it be doubled. The second change I would like see is normal campaign having the deficit mechanic where the greater the difference in combat power the more your stats are slashed, that should only be in hard campaign because at this point in time there is no difference between hard and normal besides slight variations to the enemies you see in a stage. Also pseychie is my favorite Nikke youtuber.

Because they dont shy from fan service, they listen to their fans, they release content like crazy, and most importantly, they wrote a great story. The only other gacha game that has this level of generosity is Azur Lane imo.