Infinity Nikki, an open-world dress-up gacha game by Infold Games, hit mobile, PC, and PS5 on December 5, 2024. People loved the slick Unreal Engine 5 graphics, cute fashion focus, and photo mode, especially those into cozy games. But the story was weak, mobile controls felt off, and the pace dragged. A small hiccup happened when the game’s website got hacked for like 30 minutes, showing a QR code for a Genshin Impact private server, but it got fixed fast.
Before the 1.5 update, fans generally love the game and consider the community to be better than most gacha communities out there. However, after just a single patch, the game got hit with a massive wave of boycott, drowning its Google Play Score to 1.7 from 4.2 previously. Here's everything you need to know about the Infinity Nikki Drama.
Steam Wishlist Mess (April 2025)
Things got ugly when Infold changed their Steam Wishlist rewards out of nowhere. They’d promised 10 pulls for 100,000 wishlists and a “surprise” for 200,000. Then they cut the 100,000 reward to 2 pulls and shifted the 10 pulls to 200,000, ditching the surprise. After players lost it, Infold gave in, handing out 10 pulls plus another 10 as an apology, but it didn’t fix the bad blood, especially since the 1.4 update was super light on content.
Patch 1.5 and “Girlcott” Blowup (May 2025)
The 1.5 update was a letdown, with barely any new map stuff and a focus on pricey banners instead of better story or gameplay. The dev actually retconned the entire 1.0 story that players like, replacing it with some random stuff that no one even know what it is about. The patch is also extremely buggy, ruining gameplay experience for a lot of players.
Infold’s Discord started banning people for saying stuff like “boycott,” so players came up with “girlcott” to call out the censorship and lousy updates.
On top of that, players said Infold was taking back gacha pulls without explaining why, making everyone even more ticked off. Infold stayed quiet, only dropping a survey days before, which didn’t help. Some think Infold’s focusing on their cash cow, Love and Deepspace, and letting Infinity Nikki rot, even with a huge dev team.
Wrap-Up
The Infinity Nikki drama, peaking in April-May 2025, came from broken promises (Wishlist rewards), crazy expensive microtransactions, weak updates, bad story changes, and sketchy moves like gem deductions and pull takebacks. The “girlcott” and players quitting en masse show how fed up everyone is with Infold’s greed. Despite its unique charm, the game’s taken a huge hit, and fans feel let down by a company putting profits over quality.
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