Trades with friends
Offer one to ten of your cards for one to ten of a friend’s. Both sides see the exact cards before anyone accepts.
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Wikigacha alternative
Wikigacha made collecting Wikipedia articles a craze. WikiCollector is another way to play: English Wikipedia cards you can trade with friends, buy and sell on a market, bid on at auction and file into albums. Here is how the two compare, fact by fact.
Written by WikiCollector, one of the games compared. Facts checked on 5 October 2026. Neither game is affiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation. Registration is for adults 18+; subjects may be mature.
Wikigacha in brief
Wikigacha, also known as Wikipedia Gacha, is a free browser game by the Japanese developer Harusugi, released on February 24, 2026. It went viral in Japan shortly after launch. Cards come from the Wikipedia edition of the language you play in; the menu offers Japanese, English, Spanish, French and Chinese.
A pack holds five cards, and packs recover one per minute up to ten. After every ten packs, the next one guarantees SR or better, and daily missions add more packs. Rarity comes from a quality score by WikiRank, from Common to Legend Rare, while attack follows page views and defense follows article length. Battles are the other half of the game: a daily raid, single and five-card team battles, a Story Expedition, and online battles, in beta since 25 September 2026. Your collection lives in your browser, with export and an optional Google sign-in sync in beta.
Side by side, as of 5 October 2026
| WikiCollector | Wikigacha | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you play | Web browser, with an account | Web browser, no account needed |
| Wikipedia used | English, 7,235,024 articles | The game language: Japanese, English, Spanish, French or Chinese |
| Cards per pack | 10 | 5 |
| Free packs | 10 Gold packs to start, then 1 every 10 minutes (up to 10) | 1 per minute (up to 10), plus mission rewards |
| What sets rarity | Human page views in the last measured month (August 2026) | Article quality score from WikiRank (0–100) |
| Rarity tiers | 6, Common to Legendary | 7, Common to Legend Rare |
| Card text | A Wikipedia excerpt, linked to the exact revision | Rarer cards add flavor text written by a language model |
| Trading | Card-for-card trades between friends | None listed in the game or its update notes |
| Market and auctions | Fixed-price Market and Auctions, in WikiCoins | None listed |
| Showing off | Public collections with votes, plus thematic albums that fill as you collect | Show Collection: pick 1–10 cards to display and share |
| Battles | Fight, in public beta: campaign and ranked matches | Raids, single and team battles, story, online beta |
| Your collection | Saved to your account | Saved in the browser; optional sync in beta |
| Cost | Free; optional Premium and WikiCoins | Free, with ads; watching an ad is a daily mission |
Wikigacha is a great fit if you want quick battles, no sign-up and a game in your own language. WikiCollector is built for collectors who want their cards to go somewhere: to a friend, to the Market, or into an album other people can browse.
What WikiCollector adds
Offer one to ten of your cards for one to ten of a friend’s. Both sides see the exact cards before anyone accepts.
Buy the one card your album is missing at a fixed price, or bid in auctions that last from minutes to twelve hours. List your duplicates the same way.
Thematic albums fill themselves as you pull matching cards, and public collections let other players browse and vote on your best finds.
Rarity works differently too. Because it follows readership, a Legendary on WikiCollector is a subject the world was actually reading about. The full picture is on our Wikipedia gacha guide and the published odds.
More games like Wikigacha
A French Wikipedia card game with packs and duels against friends. Our WikiMasters guide (in French) has the details.
A Wikiracing site: get from one article to another using only the links on each page, as fast as you can.
A Neal.fun toy: a giant board of tens of thousands of cut-out objects from Wikipedia, to search and shuffle until something catches your eye.
Our free game: which of two articles got more views last month? No account, and it trains your eye for rarity. Play it
Real Wikipedia article or clever invention? Read the summary and make the call. Play it
Draw a random English Wikipedia article as a card, or pick a rarity tier first. Draw one
Sources
Wikigacha: the Wikipedia article on Wikigacha (revision of 2 October 2026), and the English version of the official site (rule book, update notes and menus), its terms and privacy policy, plus a US App Store search, all checked on 5 October 2026. Other games: The Wiki Game, Wiki Spy and WikiMasters, same date. WikiCollector: the live game. Games change quickly, so check each one for its latest features.
FAQ
Wikigacha, also called Wikipedia Gacha, is a free browser card game by the Japanese developer Harusugi, released on February 24, 2026. You open packs of Wikipedia articles, rarity comes from each article’s quality score, and you use the cards in battles. It is unofficial and not affiliated with Wikipedia.
Yes. On WikiCollector you can trade cards with friends (one to ten cards on each side), buy copies on a fixed-price Market and bid in Auctions, all inside the game. As of 5 October 2026, Wikigacha’s menus and update notes list no trading or marketplace.
Wikigacha is played in a web browser at wikigacha.com. In an App Store search on 5 October 2026, the apps with Wikigacha in their name were listed by other developers, not by Harusugi.
Wikigacha rates articles by quality, using a WikiRank score from 0 to 100, across seven tiers from Common to Legend Rare. WikiCollector rates them by how many humans read them in the last measured month, across six tiers from Common to Legendary.
Yes. New accounts get ten free Gold packs, then a free pack refills every ten minutes, up to ten. Premium and WikiCoins are optional purchases. Registration is for adults 18+.
No. Both are independent projects. Neither is made, endorsed or sponsored by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.