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Honkai: Star Rail released today and has already amassed 20 million downloads on day 1. Possibly inflated by rerollers, but impressive.

Played Honkai Impact awhile back and it was alright, though significantly worse than Genshin Impact on the P2W front.

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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.

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