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Bleach Brave Souls is a long-running gacha game that appeals to Bleach fans with its character collection and action gameplay, but recent updates and persistent issues like poor summon rates and technical problems are frustrating veteran players.

4.4★ lifetime (15,622) Free + in-app purchases since 2016 by KLab Inc. updated 0.6 mo ago recent negative 36% 120 reviews across 4 regions
Gacha & Summons Game Longevity & Content Technical Issues Account & Data Loss Controller Support
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recent reviews across 4 regions, vs the 4.4★ lifetime average

Bleach Brave Souls is a free-to-play mobile game where players collect and battle with characters from the Bleach universe. While praised for its engaging gameplay and character variety, many recent reviews highlight significant issues with summoning rates, resource scarcity for long-term players, and various technical glitches.

What users like

  • Engaging action gameplay and character collection, especially for Bleach fansR1R63R70R85
  • Generally considered free-to-play friendly, particularly for new playersR1R3R81R82
  • Offers a rich story mode and sub-questsR2R14

What users complain about

  • Poor summon rates make it difficult to acquire desired 5-star characters, often resulting in duplicates or off-banner pullsR10R16R18R19
  • Lack of new content and resource generation for veteran players, leading to boredom and a feeling of being 'milked'R5R12R34R36
  • Frequent technical issues including endless loading screens, crashes, network errors, and problems with updatesR6R48R49R52
  • In-app purchases for Spirit Orbs are considered extremely overpriced and offer poor valueR99R133R376
  • Issues with account data, including lost progress after updates or inability to log into old accountsR7R17R24R26
  • The 10th-anniversary event was widely criticized for being underwhelming, lacking content, and having misleading summon ticketsR44R46R50R54
  • Lack of controller support is a frequently requested featureR11R20R23R25
  • PvP mode is unbalanced and frustrating, with reports of unfair matchups and potential hackingR22R79

Latest update · v18.0.0

What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):

This update includes: - new features - improvements to existing features - minor bug fixes See in-game notices for details.

Recurring themes

Gacha & Summons negative
Many players report extremely low drop rates for 5-star characters, feeling that the game is rigged or that filler characters have higher pull rates than featured ones. This leads to frustration and a perception of greed, especially when combined with high orb prices. The 10th-anniversary summon tickets were specifically called out for being misleading.R10R16R18R19
Game Longevity & Content negative
Veteran players feel the game has become stale, with a lack of new content and insufficient ways to earn Spirit Orbs after completing initial quests. They criticize developers for being 'lazy' and 'milking' players, with power creep making older characters obsolete and recent anniversary events being underwhelming.R5R12R34R36
Technical Issues negative
Many users report persistent issues such as endless loading screens, frequent crashes, network errors, and problems with updates preventing gameplay. Some console players specifically mention freezing on loading screens after updates. The developer notes mention 'minor bug fixes' but recent reviews contradict this, indicating ongoing or new bugs.R6R48R49R52
Account & Data Loss negative
Several players report losing their game progress and purchased items, sometimes after updates or due to changes in data linking methods (e.g., Facebook link removal). This is a significant concern for those who have invested time and money into the game.R7R17R24R26
Controller Support positive
A recurring request from players is the addition of controller support, especially for devices like Backbone, to enhance the mobile gaming experience.R11R20R23R25

Who it's for

This game is for Bleach fans who enjoy gacha mechanics and action RPG combat, especially newer players who will find it easier to acquire characters and resources initially R1R3R81R82. It's also for players who don't mind repetitive gameplay and are willing to overlook frequent technical issues.

Evidence note: The recent review sample skews negative, with a 0.355 recent-negative ratio, which contrasts with the lifetime rating of 4.3755. This suggests a negative trajectory in user satisfaction, particularly among long-term players who are vocal about recent changes and persistent problems. The developer's notes are generic and do not address specific user complaints.

Frequently asked

Are the summon rates good in Bleach Brave Souls?
No, many recent reviews indicate that summon rates for 5-star characters are poor, with players frequently receiving duplicates or off-banner characters even after spending thousands of orbs R10R16R18R19.
Is Bleach Brave Souls free-to-play friendly?
Bleach Brave Souls is generally considered free-to-play friendly for new players, who can easily obtain characters and orbs early on, but it becomes much harder for veteran players to acquire resources and new characters without spending money R1R3R36R38.
Does Bleach Brave Souls have controller support?
No, Bleach Brave Souls currently lacks controller support, which is a frequently requested feature from players who wish to use devices like Backbone for a better mobile experience R11R20R23R25.
Are in-app purchases for Spirit Orbs worth it?
Many players find the in-app purchases for Spirit Orbs to be extremely overpriced, with packages like $69.99 for only 518 Orbs offering poor value compared to the cost of summons R99R133R376.

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

  1. [R1] 5/5 · US Best bleach game IMO: Summoning is addicting-also easy to obtain characters even when f2p with no need for endless grinding. Although, I want true bankai ichigo back in summon banners.
  2. [R63] 5/5 · US Bankai !: This is my favorite anime game rn I play it with my cousin and friends. We love the anime and have fun fighting hollows and bosses together !
  3. [R70] 5/5 · US D: It’s a really good game for mobile I really love it the characters are very cute I love the missions and everything overall I give it a ten if I could
  4. [R85] 5/5 · US Fun: I play this game all the time, during work, the bathroom and the bus train car everywhere pretty much. I have favorite characters but I like the strong ones too. I’ve read the whole manga and never watch the anime but it’s good seeing new characters getting introduced. Bleach isn’t my favorite anime/manga so I’m not really in the community but this game makes me feel apart of it. I’m in subre
  5. [R3] 4/5 · US great game: overall i would say the game is great even for free to play. the only things i don’t like are the assists in bosses and the amount of exp things i can get in the soul tree bonanza
  6. [R81] 5/5 · US This game is so good: Every says that this is pay to win but i am doing fine and i do not pay. I have not gotten hacked like everyone says they did and its fighting is top notch this is the best game ever
  7. [R82] 5/5 · US An amazing game for a FTP player!: This is my last year playing this game and I gotta say it has been one of the best mobile games I’ve played! I played since launch and it’s super easy to get orbs and you’re not pressured to buy just to have a shot at getting a 5 star character. 5-stars for me and I hope they make a brave souls 2! I’ll definitely come back!!
  8. [R2] 4/5 · US STORY MODE AND SUB QUESTS: I wish there was a more optimized way to do story mode and subquests as there is so much of both. Maybe having an auto mode where it goes to the next one by itself and it takes twice the amount of tickets or something. Love the game but it gets tedious.
  9. [R14] 4/5 · US Ehh..: Good game with great storyline. However, the gameplay does get stale quickly (idk if it’s a personal thing)
  10. [R10] 1/5 · US Terrible game with skimmed rates: The fillers have higher pull rates than the featured and you get screwed over everytime you summon. Not worth your time and you’re better off playing anything else.
  11. [R16] 1/5 · US Boring: The summon rate is trash you don’t get the feature character, you have to spend a lot of orbs just to get a duplicate character you already have such a disappointment.
  12. [R18] 1/5 · US Summoning: The summons here has gone worse! Klab is being greedy once again and isn’t being fair to players.
  13. [R19] 1/5 · US This game is garbage: The rolling system on this game is garbage in every aspect. Would not recommend. Don’t waste your time.
  14. [R5] 3/5 · US Meh (like it’s ok but idk): Ok first of all there r way too many have to download stuff and my phone running out of storage Besides it’s gets boring after playing for like 3 months
  15. [R12] 1/5 · US The developers are lazy and the game is no fun anymore.: I have played the game since launch, and it was once the best mobile game I’ve ever played. But sadly I think the game is no fun anymore. The game use to be fun but the developers have become extremely lazy, and have not done anything to make better changes to the game for a long time. And they have become extremely lazy with new characters.
  16. [R34] 2/5 · US After 8 years, worse than ever: I started 8 years ago and they really started to milk the players. Massive power creep makes most of the older characters useless and it’s hard and and harder to get the same guild quest rewards. Good power creep involves new content better fitting new characters, rather than making the same game worse.
  17. [R36] 2/5 · US Great At first: After 7 years of playing this game since the 3rd anniversary I’m here to say the game was great to play for beginners and terrible for any long time players. So enjoy for a bit and spend little money.
  18. [R6] 3/5 · US .: It loads endlessly, making it impossible to play. You can skip new games, but here the endless loading is also tedious gameplay, the style is also very primitive, the design would be 2d, it would be better than this cheap 3d incomprehensible, sorry, but this is my opinion, you lose to other games in these areas, but! The character cards are awesome, and all the characters can be easily and quic
  19. [R48] 2/5 · US PlayStation 5 & Console update/Patch needed: I can’t log into the game on PlayStation 5 or switch it keeps getting stuck on an infinite loading screen after downloading and updating data. I tried reinstalling and cleaning my consoles database just in case and it runs every other game just fine.
  20. [R49] 1/5 · US For the version for the ps5: freezes at the loading screen after update
  21. [R52] 4/5 · US Bleach: I love bleach but sometimes it glitches so it stops being fun 😞
  22. [R99] 3/5 · US Absolutely love this game: But my only issue is the pricing on the in-app purchases its absolutely insane $69,99 for only 518 Spirit Orbs?!? I can get that in a day theres absolutely no reason it should be that much if I’m paying that much i deserve bare minimum 7000 cause it’s genuinely not even useful nobody’s gonna pay that much for what you provide, you might as well not even have in-app purch
  23. [R133] 3/5 · US Great game, HOWEVER: This is a great game, but there are two BIG problems with it. Spirit orbs and the 5 star chances. Spirit orbs are very difficult and frustrating to get once you’ve completed the stories and side stories. And frankly, it’s practically impossible. And from what you do get, it’s so little. They obviously want you to purchase spirit orbs, but it’s so expensive. 60 or 70 bucks for
  24. [R376] 3/5 · GB Meh: Kinda old, very VERY grindy, glitchy and and so many servers are straight up empty in co-op. It is at least not too pay to win though number of orbs a person can buy for the prices listed are just simply the worst I’ve ever seen in literally any video game period. The game is fun when it isn’t broken.
  25. [R7] 3/5 · US Feeling robbed: Been playing for a few years and every once in while I notice a character that I know I pulled (has a badge) seemingly disappears from my inventory. Now I know I’m not crazy, and for what ever reason you keep removing characters I’ve spent time and resources on. Every 5*+ character I pull gets locked and I don’t get rid of them unless it’s a dupe. You are quite literally stealing f
  26. [R17] 5/5 · US Let me log in my account!: Cant log in keeps saying all my stuff will gone what am supposed to do.
  27. [R24] 1/5 · US Post all my progress because of an update: All of my progress was deleted because of an update. I probably had +2,000$ and 4-5 years of progress deleted because of an update. I don’t know why. Don’t play this game and if you do don’t spend a single penny on this game. They can just remove all of your progress/money at any time. ( I never cheated or did anything that would have gotten me banned and
  28. [R26] 1/5 · US Can’t log into old account: Ive had this game for years I repeat years I picked up on the game around the squad zero introduction arc for tybw I’ve spent days and nights and money on this game for no avail to my problem I need my account back but you guys changed the game again for old players I got emails from you all still but can’t log in I wish to be reached out to someone not a bot or compute
  29. [R44] 1/5 · US Worst company ever: The recent 10th anniversary celebrations was so bad, no contents. We always had special senkaimon each anniversary but this year we didn’t we also didn’t have anniversary coop, and guild quests were shadow buffed they didn’t even increase the rewards, last year 9th anniversary we got special gq which at the time was very hard but we got 150 orbs each phase which nobody was comp
  30. [R46] 1/5 · US 10 years not worthwhile: I’ve been playing this game for about ten years to it’s anniversary. The lack of communication to its player base and no informative news to the changes in the guild quest but shadow buffing mobs and bosses has made the game ultimately have no return value. Do not play this game ever.
  31. [R50] 1/5 · US Very bad game and terrible Anniversary: Just save your own time and sanity, and pick a different gacha game that actually cares and listens to or at least tries to, take epic seven 7th anniversary, we had a thank you video and all and months of events, and lots of free units, way better than this garbage
  32. [R54] 1/5 · US 10th anniversary fiasco: Actively ignoring the communities criticism and are sticking their heads in the sand to avoid criticism. It’s like they don’t want you to spend money on their game. Are doing everything in their power to make us mad and act like this game doesn’t put food on their families tables. Been playing for 6+ years. Total shame that this is how we’re treated after years of playing
  33. [R11] 4/5 · US NEEDS CONTROLLER SUPPORT: This game is dope and I play it on my ps5 as well but i wanna play my mobile account otg and controller support would make this game alot better for mobile players
  34. [R20] 5/5 · US Beautiful game!: Only thing I would want is to be able to use controller! That would be so cool🥹🤍🫀
  35. [R23] 5/5 · US Backbone support please 🙏🏽: Backbone controller support 🙏🏽
  36. [R25] 5/5 · US Controller support plz: I love this game been playing for years but please add controller support
  37. [R22] 2/5 · US PvP: I have been playing this game since the beginning and I really enjoy playing it there’s plenty of stuff to do and grind for but what bothers me the most about this game is the PVP I have spent loads of time grinding items/character dupes to build my PvP team up but what I don’t like is that in certain matches it’s basically a forced loss meaning my character will move towards the opponent whi
  38. [R79] 3/5 · US Stay awya from PvP: I finally ranked up enough in PvP to get actually other players teams and now my team is doing 0 damage and dying almost instantly. There is definitely something going on. I even faced a team that has 17K power and my power was 30K, same thing. I had it in epic raids where some how the team i was on was able to insta kill the raid boss. Looks like whatever hackery there is
  39. [R38] 1/5 · US Greedy.: Yes it’s very F2P friendly in the beginning but they consistently insist on nerfing resources and farms, and they’re getting greedier and greedier by the days.

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store