Honkai Star Rail gets 20 million downloads in a single day, smashing Genshin Impact's launch

The early numbers are in, and it looks like Honkai: Star Rail is a bigger success at launch for developer Mihoyo than its previous hit Genshin Impact.

[HollowIchigo25]

It's still a Gacha game ;/

[SDuck]

And how many uninstalls? I know I'm one, gameplay was repetitive on a non fun way

[adamwparker]

Isn't this success BECAUSE OF Genshin Impact though?

Honkai 3rd Strike was hardly the beast of a game prior to Genshin(as Genshin became).

Genshin Impact built fanbase up over years to have all of these people interested in Star Rail.

[chaos999]

Played over 3 hours and the game constantly gives you tools that reminds you have to pay to have more out of the experience. It's a very AAA game. Tons of cutscenes and well acted but I feel I have half of the experience without paying

[nitus10]

Personally I have played many hours of Genshin Impact and enjoyed it, however the bigest turn off (at least for me) was the push/hint of paying real money for extra features so eventully I just quit the game. I have not played Honkai Star Rail but I get the feeling that it won't be that much different in trying to get you to pay real money.

[luckytrouble]

I don't get this. I've already put in a kind of stupid number of hours just exploring the first location top to bottom before breaking into the game proper. So far I've been given plenty of material to level characters, I've smashed every difficult enemy encounter, I've pulled a few characters, I've accrued a surprising number of the more premium pull currency, I've received plenty of ascension materials, and none of this with even a penny spent. Heck they only even show you the pull system once, don't go "hey here's our real money store by the way", and leave you to experience the game.

Will you eventually get to content you need more developed characters for with high volume free tickets largely exhausted? Sure. It's a f2p gacha game. Having played the likes of the infamous Raid Shadow Legends though, the monetization push in this game all but doesn't exist by comparison.

[Lionsguard]

I enjoy Genshin but I do not like Star Rail's aesthetics.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I actually enjoyed this more than Genshin, it's still got the Gacha system which is a turn off, but I like the gameplay and aesthetics, I do miss having a jump button though.

[HomoLuden]

Its surprisignly good. Doesn't feel like an F2P game at all, instead feels like heavily story focussed jrpg through n through. I am sure the f2p stuff will come, but as of now its an amazing RPG with a deep story.