Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle

Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle is a free-to-play mobile game for iOS and Android that combines board-game traversal with a puzzle-based combat system. Players build a team of six character cards and select a friend or guest card as a seventh fighter. During battle stages, Ki spheres appear on a circular board, and tapping spheres of matching colors charges attack power, activates combo chains, and triggers character-specific super attacks. The type system assigns each card an elemental class, and matching types against enemies produces bonus damage.

Outside of combat, players engage with a range of supplementary modes. Quest Mode serves as the primary story campaign, while Event Mode offers rotating content including story re-creations, item-farming stages, and Dokkan Events that reward awakening medals. The World Tournament pits player-assembled teams against AI-controlled rosters in a pseudo-competitive format with seasonal rankings. Later additions include the Explosive Chain Battle, a cooperative damage-race mode, and Pettan Battle, an idle format where character seals fight automatically for passive rewards. The game uses Dragon Stones as its premium summon currency, with additional resources obtainable through daily missions and event completion.

The summoning system allows players to recruit new character cards through Dragon Stone expenditure, Friend Points, or Tournament Tickets. Cards can be strengthened through awakening chains, Hidden Potential node unlocks, and skill orb upgrades. The Dokkan Awakening mechanic transforms high-rarity cards into more powerful variants using event-exclusive medals, forming the core long-term progression loop of the game.

The narrative of Dokkan Battle begins when a mysterious wish to Shenron causes dimensional distortions that merge different time periods of the Dragon Ball universe. Future Trunks is contacted by King Kai and dispatched alongside a Time Patrol to investigate the anomaly. Their investigation leads them through a sequence of encounters set on an unidentified date, starting at the World Martial Arts Tournament and expanding as the dimensional rifts attract increasingly powerful evil presences.

Early investigation reveals that Mercenary Tao and Raditz are operating in the disrupted timeline, with Raditz seeking to recruit fighters of Saiyan heritage. Future Trunks eventually confronts Imperfect Cell, whose absorption-based power growth makes him a more dangerous threat than the initial targets. The story expands across additional arcs covering villains such as Frieza and Majin Buu, with each chapter presenting new dimensional anomalies that pull characters from various points in the Dragon Ball timeline into conflict.

Released globally in 2015, Dokkan Battle became one of the most commercially successful Dragon Ball games ever produced, generating billions of dollars in lifetime revenue across its iOS and Android releases. Its gacha summoning model and regular limited-time events established a player retention structure that kept the game active for a decade. The title played a significant role in introducing the Dragon Ball franchise to mobile gaming audiences and demonstrated the viability of free-to-play design within the licensed anime game space.