Did you play Luna Fantasy, Realm Rush, or Maiden Lust? If yes then you've played this game. Don't bother unless it's new to you and even then I'd recommend using one of the other versions unless you are willing to spend your time and data on optional ads for minor rewards.

And yes, the costumes get more revealing once the account hits level 30.

All in all it's a completely lackluster experience.

DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME IT WILL SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF YOU I SWEAR!!
this game is pure evil right now. its difficult to get dia, it takes way too many points to actually get current event cards. and from what i've seen so far when i started playing it again months ago, WHY is it that it takes freakin 10 BP to max?? when playing the beatups just to level up?? it's so dumb to waste 10 BP just too max in the game its just so.... YIKES

enstars was a mistake- im so addicted to the game and im very freaking addicted to the music in the game i love it SO MUCH!! I LOVE ALL THE BOYS IN THERE DBSKSKS but arashi has my whole freaking heart aaaa


ANYWAY the story is intriguing, the graphics is amazing as always, the MUSIC and the new units are SO GOOD MWAH! the gameplay, has improved alot. and of course the art is so beautiful i'm in love with it. i don't have much experence with the expert mode on the beatmaps but hard mode is managable! and i've also played basic! i love that one too, its just easy to play honestly but it also has its perks.
anyway time for a rant...

PLEASE STAN RYUSEITAI, RA*BITS, AND SWITCH

KANATA MY FAVORITE FISH I LOVE YOU!!! SO MUCH??? I JUST LOVE HIS STUIPD "PUKA PUKA" OEBSSKKS I WOULD BUY YOU A WHOLE ASS FISH TANK JUST FOR YOU??!?!! AND MIKA I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR YOU(3-#(#; MY SWEET BABYY YOU CAN STOMP ON ME AND ID SAY THANK YOU!!!! AND HAJIME, WATARU, TSUKASA, NATSUME, YUTA I LOVE YOU GUYS– OABAKSH I WOULD SPOIL ALL OF YOU AND BECOME BROKE FOR YOU <3 ALSO THE AKATSUKI, SWITCH, DOUBLE FACE AND KNIGHTS CREW I LOVE YOU- I WILL GIVE SMOOCH ON FOREHEADS KSBSKSN AAAAA

AND KOGA!!#!!$!$+#-282)$?$! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH YOU'RE SO ADORBLE KSBSKSN YOU FREAKIN WOLF BOY I JUST WANNA !!!—

UHM- so many of the boys are super duper loveable and there is literally no way of just liking one boy in a unit and NOT LIKE ALL OF THEM!! IT'S JUST IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT LIKE ALL OF THE BOYS IN THE GAME!!!!!

anywho... please give this game a shot! and also get ready to be sucked into ENSTARS HELL

I quit because of people gatekeeping characters, claiming to be them while having nothing in common with them, mischaracterizing the characters on top of that yet acting as if they are the same person. They made those characters their whole personality, and as expected, they turned out to be the most problematic people I've ever met. They're the types that would go far as to spread personal info. Tryhard fans for sure. Now, whenever I look at in-game characters, I'm reminded of those toxic people. I'm not saying that all fans are like this but a huge bunch are like this. That's my reasoning to never approach this game again. Most toxic fandom ever.

Edit 5/4/2026 (Optimization tips, New bugs, Recommended specs and review) *They finally fixed the 120Fps bug, but if ya have a 144Hz or higher refresh rate screen, set it to 120hz before playing and the lag/slowdown will be fixed! Also, they did some low-level optimization, so it should run better on lower-end devices now (or they just updated to Unity 2024)

After more than a year of playing this game (Since 27/4/2024) it's one of the only few games that has kept me playing it every single day. So, let's start this review.

Gacha. I can tell this is one of the few games that are VERY generous with the in-game currency (Drama Jewels. AKA: stars). you can get up to 2K by just by playing in the league and triple cast, and also save "yellow coins" that let you buy stars, and you can get them by doing daily tasks and just playing some songs. Also the gacha rates are OK. it's mostly a question of luck as always. but the 4★ cards and poster design are REALLY good. and every one of them are animated! (Only 4★ Cards. posters aren't animated).

Gameplay. The reason I ditched protect sekai entirely. If you like to play multifinger charts (4k, 5K and 6K) and like an arcade score system. this is the game you were looking for. specially if you play with a phone, because this game has one of the most Underrated but REALLY useful features. Lane size adjustment. you can stretch the lane to fit your entire screen and be able to play multifinger charts with more ease. and every single song have an OLIVIER difficulty. from the easiest ones (Olivier I) to the most insane ones (Olivier X). Also the way the notes flow and works here is also slightly different from other games. but after some practice you get used to it. specially the flicks. I really love the flicks notes in this game. Also you can play long versions of some songs in the game! And you can also use 120Fps if your phone have a 120Hz screen.

-How to unlock OLIVIER difficulty.
Complete a song in Stella with Rank S or higher and long press the Stella button 'till a sound and effect appears. then just start the song and complete it without running out of life.

-Is this game thumb friendly?
Yes, every difficulty but Olivier. unless you use thumbs with 2 or 4 extra fingers. but you should be able to play almost every Stella with thumbs

Characters. Personally, I love the characters of this game. They have interesting stories and events, their designs are nice and well made, The Voice actors fit their characters very well, their cards and posters are very well designed and colorful as well. It's one of the few games where I like almost every character. especially Hikari and Xue. the are like sisters sometimes.
I recommend reading the event stories, they are often funny and interesting, depending of the theme of the event. and also the anime is not bad, so give it a shot if you can!

Character personalization. Yes, you can dress your favorite characters as you want. and it's pretty easy to get dresses and outfits by gettings SSR posters or buying them in the store (These are paid. But the gifted paid currency for dresses a couple times since I started). And by upgrading the posters you can get variants of the same dress (Normally just different colors).

Features, mini games, and other things. This game has pretty neat things. like a camera mode where you can take photos to your favorite character and make and album with these photos and put it in your profile (These photos can make your team better and raise act. power and other stats) and that mode is available in 3DMV's, theater and spot. And after the 2nd anniversary they added a mini game with dugong (The mascot of the game) where you move dugong to avoid hitting the notes 'till the end of the song. and you can play it with a friend too! (I haven't tried that). Also if you tap in the location icon at the top left of the screen you can go to different places and watch the characters chat. also you can change the BGM music in the main screen in settings. only Original songs can be used. the Cover songs can't be used as BGM. And another neat thing is that you can see different arts and cards in the log screen (When you start the game) so It makes the start screen looks different every time you log in! you can also change the Log-in charapter and outfit now!

Optimization and recommended specs. I have played this game with a bunch of devices. from crappy, low end phones, old High-end phones and New gaming phones. When I started The optimization was BAD. Laggy, shuttering, the frametimes all over the place. However, now the game has solid optimization. even on low end devices. I'll list the recommended specs and How much performance you'll get.

-Exynos 7420 or equivalent. 50~60Fps, Lowest. 420P or 20~37Fps. Lowest. 1080p. (With custom ROM performance could be slightly better, as stock samsung ROM isn't compatible with the game anymore.)

-Kirin 790 or equivalent. Locked 60Fps. medium. 720P or 1080p.

-Snapdragon 845 or equivalent. Locked 60Fps, Medium. 1080p.

-Dimensity 8200 Ultimate or equivalent. Locked 120Fps. Highest. 1080p or 1440p if available. (Can do 4K at 52-74Fps too)

-Intel Core I3 2310M or equivalent. 47-60Fps, High, 450p. Or 12-27Fps, lowest, 900p (Doesn't work anymore after 2.30 update.)

*The game runs just fine with 4GB of ram. less than that will cause shuttering or lag. And if your device has good specs but still lags, Try changing the Graphics engine to OpenGL on the settings icon in the start screen.

*The game uses up to 17GB of storage if you download every single song and MV

*It doesn't work anymore on 2nd gen Intel CPUs (Sandy bridge) since the 2.30 update. Reason: Any Intel CPU before Ivy bridge lacks the neccesary instruction to convert FP16 instructions to FP32 (FP16C), which the game now relies on WAY more than before due to optimization (FP16 is faster on ARM CPUs) so when the game tries to use it, it just dies.

*I've seen a lot of Error 82 lately. It might be related with the game conflicting with another app running on the background, but I'm not sure yet. (Probably overlays? I'll debug that when I get a new device).

Songs and covers. The original songs on this game are good, especially the new ones. and the covers are also well made. and sometimes they put the full ver. songs in the game (Mostly original songs).

Community. This game has one of the nicest communities I've ever been on. It isn't as big as proseka's community and doesn't have that many fans outside of asia, but their fan base is really nice and polite, even their streamers are very nice (like Ryu and others, as there are only a few yumeste streamers/Vtubers). And the game itself is pretty much made with the community in mind, as they added a "championship mode" where you can make your own championships or playlists and have up to 32 players in it. The QAP/TAP/DAP thing (if two players get an AP, there will be an extra AP star/mark next to your own, and if four players get an AP in the same difficulty, then you get the 4 extra AP marks next to yours and it'll stay there forever) I think it also works for FCs, but I'm not 100% sure. Also, there's the "circle" thing, which is like an In-game group chat and it has it's own leaderboard and events. The point is: Nice japanese community, their streamers are kind and respectful, and the "community" itself is a part of the game soul, which is pretty rare on most gacha-based games nowdays (although gacha isn't that necessary if you only care about the rhythm game itself. This game rewards raw skill, not how much money you put into it, as long as you only chase rank & rating).

One thing I really want to explain is how the team building works. But to be honest. I still don't know how it works at all. It's VERY complex to make a good team without using the auto team function. but once you get used to it you will do it somehow. Just level up cards and rank, Try different posters until you find one that gives you a better score, also try different accessories, and the most important one... TRY DIFFERENT ORDERS, Cuz sometimes you can have a powerful team, but an incorrect order will make it utterly useless.

And if you read all of this review... THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I skipped a lot of things to not make this way longer. Give this game a try, once you get used to it, you'll love it

My ID, I'm always available for Co-op: 5866060625

Code for free drama Jewels: 4PY7G6KXWP

ユメステ 詳細レビュー（英語）- Yumeste (somewhat) In-depth review.

Update: It fixed a lot of the bugs and glitches of the game but the main point are still there so I'm just changing it a bit more of the rating.
From just 4 days of playing this is what I can gather for yall.
The Good Part:
The game captured the style of Visual Novel both graphic and storyline from the original game very well which actually made me enjoy reading through the story, so that is a nice check from me.
The gameplay is morely based on the story as you read the story to unlock more content of the game. So you will have a fairly chill time playing the game. (Until the bad part arrives...)
Also the game is fairly simple with auto and idle mechanics PVE and slowly upgrading and customizing your cafe to your liking.
So if you are just a casual player and want to understand the story of NekoPara it can help you introduce yourself to the NekoPara world.
However that is all the good thing I can mention as the current state of the game is not great. It feels like I'm playing a very early alpha test of the game so here we are gonna move into the bad part.
The Bad Part:
Due to how the game is very buggy and feel like rushed the gameplay is also downgraded a lot which affected a lot of issues that I've found from just playing normally.
Mission Board is completely broken along with the achievement system inside it as it is completely blank even though it said you have mission completed number count claim.
Even the PVE aspect of you open a shop versus NPC stage level are also somewhat bugged from small issues from UI elements bugging up to mechanic problems like Chocolate just walking to the customer table and stuck there doing nothing and because of that I lost the stage.🥀
In story reading, after I have completed a story and accidentally got back the same one so I tried to use the skip and the game got softlock as the toolbar disappeared and the story won't progress no matter what you do.
Beside the buggy and broken mess of the game, I do feel that the game greed is also one of thing that is a bit too much as the gacha currency requirements that you need to pull is 3000 for 10 pulls which is way higher than the gacha game standard of 2000≤ for 10 pulls as this made the game grinding is pretty much feel like more of a chore just to get as each main quest levels you passed only give you 20 (not counting the material level as they give you 100 but have a high rating requirement for each level passed) and the main story only give you 100 for each story part. So after all that time grinded not counting the daily login I just farmed like only able to farm for 30 pulls throughout those 4 days. (Keep in mind that I played like 3h-4h each day for a new game to fully review this.)
Not to mention the dev actually locks automatic level progress to VIP 3 (Yes you are forced to pay money to actually use it.) And while you are playing, they will just constantly shove deals and offer down your throat whenever you achieved something in the game like limit break your 5* units and other features constantly.
Oh I didn't realize that the amount of dupes required for limit break is pretty insane as the full limit break level is 7 which is way higher than other gacha game standards.
Due to the VIP system exist, it is kinda obvious that it is P2W if you want to climb to the leaderboards and also more chances to grind easier then F2P like automatically go to the next stage function can auto once you get VIP 3 or higher.
In the end my rating for this game is meh but sad. As it has potential but is kinda ruined by the current state of the game as it is no different from being an Alpha Test version due to how buggy it is and the rampant monetization that it is showing right now. So if you want to play, then I can only recommend playing it to enjoy the story as the game currently is still very unpolished for any extra content or gameplay as they currently don't even have any events to try right now.