Quote:While it may not be grabbing as many headlines as it used to, Hoyoverse’s Genshin Impact remains a monster in the free-to-play RPG space, and has generated billions in revenue. Now, even as Genshin remains supported, Hoyoverse’s next game is here, Honkai: Star Rail. And it’s just racked up 20 million downloads on day one.

Honkai: Star Rail is the fourth game in a long-running series from Hoyoverse (formerly MiHoYo), where the last game was Honkai Impact 3rd, a Genshin predecessor. Honkai: Impact did 1 million downloads in Japan 11 days after its release. The last data we have is that the game had 35 million downloads by March 2018 after originally releasing in China in late 2016. Now, Honkai: Star Rail has done 20 million in 24 hours.

Of course these are not sales, the game is free-to-play and available on both mobile and PC from day one, broadening its potential userbase. Like Genshin Impact, it’s a gacha game, meaning players gamble real money to pull powerful characters and weapons. Also like Genshin you are building a swappable team of four members, but while Genshin leans more into fantasy, the Honkai series (derived from the Japanese word for decay/destruction) is much more sci-fi based.

(04-30-2023, 01:11 AM)bashed Wrote: honkai community is already vast enough, so most of HSR players are HI players who want to either see breathing Himeko or adult Bronya, in that sense the number is pretty expectable, and it has some improvement in terms of graphic / char design than HI.
Still can't beat genshin in many aspects tho :>

(04-30-2023, 03:57 AM)bashed Wrote: I haven't tried HSR either, just got some infos from friends who play it.
HSR has identical pity system with genshin (90th pull guarantee 5 star but 50/50 either its a promotional 5star or standard). for paid currency idk, genshin still better it seems. HI on the other hand is indeed worse than the other 2, but still better than most gacha games like PGR or digimon.
So yea maybe u should try HSR if u fine with Turn based.

(05-05-2023, 08:30 PM)Jiggly Wrote: Given how much I enjoy genshin and all of that lovely character design, I think I will give this a try in the coming months. The storylines sound very interesting from the tidbits Oni has mentioned to me, as well.

(05-13-2023, 01:34 AM)Oni Wrote:

(05-05-2023, 08:30 PM)Jiggly Wrote: Given how much I enjoy genshin and all of that lovely character design, I think I will give this a try in the coming months. The storylines sound very interesting from the tidbits Oni has mentioned to me, as well.

I didn't have great expectations, but I have enjoyed it so far. At Trailblaze level 35. If anyone's played Genshin, it's pretty much the same except for being SciFi and using a turn-based system.

Adventurer level, world level, ascension, weapons, and pretty much every system is a direct copy-paste. Genshin probably wins between the two, but it's easy to do dailies on both (and Honkai has great characters).