For a long time, only Wuthering Waves and the HoYoverse games regularly made it into the top 10 gacha revenue rankings. In the first half of 2026, two new projects in the same genre were released and remained in the top spot: Arknights: Endfield and Neverness to Everness.
In the first week of its release from January 22 to 31, Arknights: Endfield managed to raise $28,550,000, which was a record figure for such a short period. However, revenue gradually began to decline: in February it was $26,080,000, in March – $22,050,000, and in April – $17,280,000. In May, due to a drop in revenue to $4,770,000, the game fell to 35th place.
The thing is, this month in Arknights: Endfield there was a banner with two standard characters (Border Guard Commander, "shepherdess" Ardelia) and a rerun of two events (warriors Gilberta, Operative Laevatain), so this result is normal. Two new heroes (Mi Fu and Kamil) are expected in June, which could help the game regain its former status.
Source: revenue.ennead.cc
For the first week Neverness to Everness managed to raise $6,740,000, as the gacha was released in China on April 23rd and on the global server on the 29th. In its first full month, it earned $22,570,000, which is lower than the peak revenue of Arknights: Endfield, but this allowed the game to rise to 9th place in the rankings. In mid-May, it released the owner of the antique shop Hotori, but besides that, players also donated for skins.
Source: @HeiYiZhenTan (黑衣侦探)
At the end of April Genshin Impact launched seven reruns, and in May the game became Angel NicoleWith revenue of $41,660,000, the project remained in second place – it has held this position for the third month in a row, and for six months its revenue has not fallen below $40,000,000. It is worth considering that this amount includes donations not only for new characters, but also for Astral Limit.
В Honkai: StarRail The second part of the anniversary patch brought in $37,770,000. It featured fox Evanessa, accompanied by reruns Zlatius Tribby, Galovian Sunday и General FeixiaoIf we compare, the first half of this update with Silver Wolf lvl.999 raised $58,100,000, but it had more banners and a skin appeared reaper of Kastoria and launched a spending event.
On the last day of April in Wuthering Waves Hiyuki was released and Morny and Yuno were revived. A week before the end of May, Dania became playable and Chisa and Frolova were revived. All of these banners were included in the anniversary patch and brought in $31,750,000. It featured numerous events and gifts, but last year's celebration was more successful.
Zenless Zone Zero remained in the same ranking position as in the previous month. In May, Promeus's arbiter и SP Star Billy, repeated the banner Summoner Lucia и operatives Orpheus and Magus, and also added the Miyabi skin, thanks to which the gacha received $9,370,000.
Well, only endfield surprised me. The game gives a second chance to smile.
What's surprising about that? The second banner is a dud (I spun it twice and got Gilberto, lol), no one will invest money in it, even on speed.
The first banner lasted until May 22nd. Incidentally, there were questions about it too.
The first banner, Zhuang, apparently launched on April 17th. AJ – April 17th. Including any part of it in this statistic and writing, "Well, it's until MAY 22nd" is pure crap.
Absolutely all banners, in all gachas, peak in revenue in the first week. Zhuang's banner isn't in this statistic. And there were no "questions" about it. The questions, as before, are about the game, about its "agushevsoti" compared to the OG Ark.
They can't even imagine what kind of "questions" we're talking about here. About her ultimate? Those aren't questions, that's a farce from those who are currently freaking out, like, for example, over the trailer for the new God of War. From those who were banned on PX.
In any graph above, any banner after a weekly peak has a stable sales tail of 20%, given the banner duration of 35 days in the endfield, this figure could theoretically be even higher.
Fanya's banner initially collected little and consequently had mediocre sales later on.
The situation with Laufey is a matter of taste and has nothing to do with the character's appearance changing a week before release.
Growth? Reverse?
Any graph in the topic shows a peak on the day the banner is released and a drop to the floor within a week, because players first extract all the "free money" from the game, and then possibly (!) deposit the rest in dollars.
What height? This isn't even copium, it's crazy.
My example is directly relevant because it's tied to the same category of whiny, maximalist players who disregard the opinions of the majority of players (who don't even speak up). It's jarring for those who call characters "wives."
"Oh my god, she looks too unfappable/they removed the nudity (which wasn't there)." We're not taking into account the Spartan Man-loving gachas; their opinion is a bit more well-founded.
And yes, Juan's appearance has changed so little that it will never stop making me laugh. The original version didn't have any visible "features"; it was just a translucent texture with nothing on it, covered with a couple of rags. It's literally nothing.
The tail, not the height) the banner didn't collect much, admit it already) I don't know what kind of raisin you're talking about, the whole model was changed, transparency was added just later.
I'm not particularly interested in the God of War situation, but since we're on the subject, the official trailer has about 50% dislikes. I think that reflects the opinion of a fairly large number of people.
Who even cares about the number of buttons pressed under a video? Grifters from Hwitter? The same ones who cancelled both Subnautica and Bond?
Good benchmark, good luck.
Whether it's a small amount or not, that's not what we were talking about. His fees are in a different month, and there's no lag until the middle of the next month, and there can't be.
What I like about NTE is the localization, the characters, no installation of the savior of the galaxies from Doom, the banner without 50/50, a bunch of signals right from the start
What's not great is farming paws and city stamina - and while paws are fine and achievable, stamina is mostly wasted in PvP races. And how are they designed here? There are essentially two maps, one with pigs and their stifling slowdown, the other is just for driving straight ahead, and the main thing is skidding, and for a griffin, I'll say that no upgrades will save you. Sometimes you can skid even on a straight road. Also, if someone crashes into your car, you'll spin back, while the other player drives forward without any skidding, or they'll skid too, and you'll be struggling with them until the third one gets ahead. Avoiding an intentional collision is difficult, meaning you can get really mad at these races.
And there's also a bug with farming fluff (for ascension), which has been known for at least a week, which, in my opinion, is completely unacceptable for a game like this, although tomorrow's patch will make it clear whether everything will be fixed or not.
Pfft. All of this is offset by a half-naked girl in a house, in a car, and in a tutu. That's it! The army of stranglers is thrilled!)) The only downside so far is the lack of an estate with a harem, but I think they'll make up for it))
If you're terrifying men, then you have nothing better to do here, unfortunately😂
The game doesn't automatically select random players for co-op activities. There's nothing to do after draining your stamina on some fishing trip in a couple of hours one evening.
Racing is a dud, where you crash into a barrier and can't really get away from it because of the horrific collision. The over-the-top collisions with other cars aren't even worth mentioning; some of them dance so much they fly 50 meters ahead.
It seems the game had no testers at all.