# Date A Live: Spirit Echo — user reviews > 65 indexed App Store user reviews of Date A Live by HK Adma Tech Limited, rated 4.10/5 from 183 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/date-a-live-spirit-echo/id6747107379/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/date-a-live-spirit-echo/id6747107379.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 131 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 29 ## What do users think of Date A Live? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Fun and easy to play - 🚀 Smooth gameplay - 💡 Bringing back a beloved game **Cons** - 🐛 Login issues and server problems - 🔁 Repetitive of previous versions - 💰 Concerns about microtransactions and lack of data recovery **Commonly reported bugs** - Constant maintenance and downtime - Laggy and buggy performance **Most requested features** - Support for more regions/countries - PC version - Ability to recover previous account data ## Newest reviews (10 of 65) ### 3/5 — Tại sao yoshino lại bị biến thành vòng lập vô tận !!! *2026-01-01, version 1.0.3* Tôi không hiểu tại sao khi chơi chế độ hẹn hò của yoshino ở mục hằng ngày lại trở thành kết cục vòng lập vô tận?! Làm cách nào để giải quyết vấn đề này. Làm ơn giúp tôi với! ### 3/5 — The novelty of a game is fun but.. *2025-09-25* This game is toxic towards free to play players. The more time you put into the game the less and less diamonds you get and you need diamonds to get new characters strong enough to handle the harder challenges. Before playing just know this game doesn’t give you enough rewards for the time and effort you put into it. ### 3/5 — 3 *2025-09-09* Glad it’s back, but disappointed your being a money hungry gacha unlike in the past. I want to actually feel awarded for my gameplay and progression. ### 2/5 — Won’t download *2025-08-08, version 1.0.1* For some reason it’s not letting me download the game at all and I pressed the download button countless times and it won’t work what’s going on ### 2/5 — Short beginner, run time, barely any rewards and events *2025-08-06* Every banners last at least four days they’re coming up and it’s a barely enough rewards to get any of the characters events dont give out that much rewards ### 3/5 — Should’ve been a JRPG like Persona 5 X. *2025-08-04* I feel like DAL anime franchise should’ve deserved better if it was a JRPG type of game. It should’ve had the treatment like Persona 5 X and Honkai Star Rail has. Like there’s so many gacha and story games that are better than this one. And I LOVE Date A Live. But I feel like this game is not it for me. Like for example, it should’ve had something like the dating part of DAL should be like the Confidant system from Persona games. ### 3/5 — Download slow *2025-07-24, version 1.0.1* My internet is faster then a jet. Why is it taking so long to download. Fix your servers please. ### 1/5 — Skeptical and fishy *2025-07-24* So far apparently date a live has had three mobile games, all reusing assets from the previous version. However this one seems really fishy. Developer hasn’t even made anything before. I’m pretty sure it’s stolen assets. Support the actual creator via steam. ### 1/5 — Server issues *2025-07-24, version 1.0.1* The game is so slow spirit pledge wasn’t this slow I never had issues until now ### 5/5 — fun *2025-07-23, version 1.0.1* it’s a really fun game I recommend ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Scam *2025-09-25, version 1.0.2* WHEN I WAS IN HIGHSCHOOL I SPENT $950 on this game JUST FOR THEM TO TAKE IT AWAY AND THEN BRING IT BACK? INCLUDING THE WHALE ACCOUNT I HAD(isint brought back) ### 1/5 — Not F2P friendly *2025-09-14, version 1.0.2* Like the title says it’s exceptionally exceptionally F2P unfriendly as you barely get any of the resources and resetting the shards to get shards for characters YOU DON’T HAVE is a waste of time AND the premium currency because it only gives you shards for characters you already have and then banners only last FOUR DAYS which is the most anti-player thing ever especially because you’d have to spend thousands of pounds to even get a CHANCE to get a new character and even then that’s like 0.01% even with the rate up so this is another soulless cash grab just like the HD version and I couldn’t recommend it any less ### 1/5 — Trash game unless you like DAL *2025-08-19* TL;DR: They don’t compensate for lost data from original Spirit Pledge, gacha system is trash for f2p, you have stamina problems until around lvl 46, gameplay needlessly waste a lot of time because enemies are needlessly tankly/has a lot of hp. 0 compensation for spirit pledge players (they give 588 diamonds, only 3 pulls, pretty much zero). It cost 1800 diamonds for 10 pulls, 100 pulls for pity, and pity on limited banners don’t carry onto the next. Crazy when you realize the amount of diamonds you get a month is as bad as Genshin’s. You don’t have enough stamina to progress through story after day 3-5 of playing the game because you will be using most of it to farm shards. Weekends are worse because all stages of “daily instance” are open on Weekend so you’ll have to use 25 diamonds to refresh stamina. (This problem is fixed in endgame) Besides story, Gameplay is mid as well. It is a bit hard for most people and that’s just because the enemies you fight are tanky/has a lot of hp. It’s literally just wasting time needlessly. ### 1/5 — Can’t get in *2025-08-07, version 1.0.1* I can’t even get in the game and thus I can’t claim the daily rewards IT’S SO UNFAIR I’m trying to play the game but it’s not letting me ### 1/5 — Trash game unless you like DAL *2025-08-07* TL;DR: They don’t compensate for lost data from original Spirit Pledge, gacha system is trash for f2p, you don’t get much stamina, gameplay needlessly waste a lot of time because enemies are needlessly tankly/has a lot of hp. 0 compensation for spirit pledge players (they give 588 diamonds, only 3 pulls, pretty much zero). It cost 1800 diamonds for 10 pulls, 100 pulls for pity, and pity on limited banners don’t carry onto the next. Crazy when you realize the amount of diamonds you get a month is as bad as Genshin’s. You don’t have enough stamina to progress through story after day 3-5 of playing the game because you will be using most of it to farm shards. Weekends are worse because all stages of “daily instance” are open on Weekend so you’ll have to use 25 diamonds to refresh stamina. Besides story, Gameplay is mid as well. It is a bit hard for most people and that’s just because the enemies you fight are tanky/has a lot of hp. It’s literally just wasting time needlessly. ### 1/5 — Any Free to play benefits? *2025-08-02, version 1.0.1* Unlike other gatcha games, Why does Date a Live games never give any free summons as a reward for joining the game? What about a pity system? Already this game is advertising misc options whilst not giving any room for free players to get stronger. I’m saying now, This game needs to be more free to play friendly. Additionally they need to give at least 1 guaranteed top class Spirit as a means of joining the game for the first time. Pretty greedy in my opinion honestly. ### 1/5 — . *2025-07-29, version 1.0.1* Unplayable, every server has login error. ### 1/5 — I can’t even get into a server *2025-07-29* All the servers are full and have a registration limit for some reason and the only server available for me to play as a new player won’t even load because it has a sever login error I can’t play this game it’s that bad I wouldn’t even recommend trying unless they fix their servers ### 1/5 — can’t get into my old account I was *2025-07-28, version 1.0.1* i had spirit pledge and downloaded this game only to find out i can’t log into my old account i was so far into the story and had pretty much most of the characters. ### 1/5 — DAL Fans, Beware: *2025-07-26* This is NOT run by the official developers of the original Spirit Pledge. It’s run by a completely unaffiliated group of unrelated individuals who have “borrowed” all of the assets from the original Spirit Pledge. As far as anyone has been able to dig, none of these guys are connected to Kadokawa, Hot Games Studio, or anyone connected to the franchise. Meaning: it does not support the franchise. There’s already proof of them using AI in their advertising as well, which adds to the suspicions people have been having about this. Put politely, it’s shady. And even if you can ignore that massive elephant in the room, looking at the gameplay: it hasn’t fixed anything. Since it’s a near exact replica of Spirit Pledge, it has the same quality issues the original had with no attempt to fix them. If they had at least tried their own spin on it to fix the flawed game mechanics that was in the original Spirit Pledge then MAYBE it could’ve had a crumb of reason to exist and worth defending it’s sus origins. But no, it’s not. And thus there is 0 reason to recommend it. Absolutely avoid. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love the game *2026-08-12* Anime to the game player, I first saw it on instagram and thought “why not, let’s give it a try” and now i’ve spent $200+ and I love the game, love the updates and everything in general ### 5/5 — Same as before *2026-08-11* I remember playing when it first came out and now it’s back and it’s still super fun to play. ### 5/5 — Hey I really like this game *2026-05-30* I ll have a question can you maybe have some more collabs I remember when you had a collab with the is it wrong to pick up girls from a dungeon that was really fun please keep up the good updates thank you! ### 5/5 — Couldn’t even start the game *2025-10-17* Can’t even update it after downloading the game I try everything and it just says update fail ### 5/5 — Cool *2025-09-21, version 1.0.2* Great game I love it ### 5/5 — Date a live experience *2025-08-04* I love the show i love the characters and now i can say i love the game. The chibis resemble the sprites which is rare and appreciated. ### 5/5 — I’m so happy *2025-07-30, version 1.0.1* I’ve missed this game so much. ### 5/5 — Give this game a Chance *2025-07-29* Hey, I am glad this game got brought back, even though some messes been made, I want this game to have a chance. Hope it gets updated and gets upgraded to the rebooted version, and well hope it doesn't come down. Giving it time hopefully. Hope this game will do great. ### 5/5 — Not being able to login to a server *2025-07-29* I have been at it for about 30 minutes trying to get into a server. The newest one just says that the login failed or something like that. Just fix this please, loved the anime and barely found out about this game. ### 5/5 — Great *2025-07-29, version 1.0.1* This game is a great game, I don’t see any flaws. I love DAL sm. Keep up the great work!!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-22.*