Basketball Girls
From Alibaba's Lingxi Games, an anime basketball game: coach a girls' team to the nationals
First principle
People like to bring someone up by hand and watch her win. Basketball Girls cuts the raising into separate runs, and each restart can grow a different player.
The needs it meets
- ProgressCore
- Seeing yourself get better: a level cleared, a rank gained, a skill learnt.
- Thrill
- The jolt of a draw, a pull or a bet.
- Entertainment
- Passing time and unwinding, carried off by stories, music and video.
Why it wins
- You plan training, meet random events and pick equipment and notes; with over 300 events the same girl grows differently each run, and a failed run makes you want another.
- Beyond raising there are matches: rivals shoot from outside, bully inside or run the break, and you choose pick and roll or isolation on the spot, so stats alone don't win.
- Players and equipment come from gacha, with a pity count on limited banners; launch gave 200 free pulls and two SSRs of your choice to fill the squad, and people then pay for new girls.
- An officially licensed NBA tie in brings basketball fans, and each girl's own story keeps those who come for the characters.
What keeps it ahead
- Live operations
- Events, seasons and new levels without end.
- Brand and IP
- People knew it already: the brand, the characters, the stars.
How it makes money
In app purchases
Free to play; it earns from gacha and packs of 6 to 648 yuan. Ninth on the grossing chart in its first week is mostly launch heat; whether it lasts depends on the banners to come.
What a small team can take from it
Run based raising is a structure a small team can reach: random events plus a few build styles make every restart different. The costly part is character art and story, so start with a handful of characters and make one run fun.
This week
- China: top grossing games, number 9
- China: top free games, number 20
updated 29 October 2026
- Developer
- Lingxi Games Inc.
- Category
- Game
- Stores
- App Store
- First in a list
- 29 October 2026
Sources
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- 篮球少女飞跃巅峰制作组是谁 篮球少女飞跃巅峰开发公司详解（PP助手） 26 October 2026
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