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Honkai: Star Rail (Chinese: 崩坏: 星穹铁道; pinyin: Bēng huài: Xīng Qióng Tiě Dào; lit. 'Honkai: Star Dome Railway') is an upcoming free-to-play 3D tactical role-playing game developed and published by HoYoverse. It is the fourth installment in the Honkai series, using brand new characters along with alternate versions of existing characters (except Welt) from Honkai Impact 3rd.

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. (December 2021)

Honkai: Star Rail
Developer(s)	HoYoverse
Publisher(s)	HoYoverse
Series	Honkai
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows
Release	TBA
Genre(s)	Tactical role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

It was officially revealed on October 7, 2021, on the game's official YouTube channel.[1]

Etymology

The "Star Rail" mentioned in the title refers to an interstellar train featured in the game, while Honkai is the main antagonistic force of the Honkai series, which seeks to destroy civilizations as they advance. The word honkai is derived from Japanese 崩壊 (rōmaji: hōkai), meaning decay or destruction.

Gameplay

Honkai: Star Rail has players control a team of up to four characters,[2] which make up a team. Elements of open-world and dungeon exploration are present, with focus being on turn-based strategic combat.

Story

Plot

After the events of Honkai Impact 3rd, Welt Yang travels to a parallel universe to embark on his own journey.

The story begins when two crew members of the Astral Express, March 7 and Dan Heng are delivering rare relics to Herta, the master of the Herta Space Station. Suddenly, Voidrangers of the Antimatter Legion ambush the Space Station and start attacking people. Luckily, March and Dan as well lead researcher Asta and head security Arlan were able fend them off.

Unbeknownst to them, two Stellaron Hunters, Kafka and Silver Wolf sneaked into the Space Station and used its chaos as a distraction to steal a Stellaron by order their leader Elio who can see into the future. After finding the Stellaron, they use it to create an artificial human dubbed the "Trailblazer" and insert the Stellaron into their body. Upon opening their eyes, Kafka told them about Elio foreseeing their future about their journey and finding friends before leaving the Trailblazer behind in order set up meeting with the Astral Express.

March and Dan later found the Trailblazer unconscious and bring them along to find Arlan. They manage to find him, but are suddenly ambushed by a Trampler and its fellow Voidrangers. Himeko, with the help of her drone, manages to save the group who later meet Asta and explain the current situation. Soon after, a huge monster of the Legion dubbed the "Doomsday Beast" tears open the Herta Space Station's shield. Asta orders the others to escape while she chooses to stay.

The Astral Express crew and the Trailblazer managed to escape and as they reach the Platform, the Doomsday Beast ambushes them but is swiftly defeated. The beast, however, unleashes its power putting March 7th in danger, but the Trailbazer shields her. The Trailblazer sees a vision about their future, causing the Stellaron inside them to go berserk and kill the Doomsday Beast. The Trailblazer falters, unable to control the power within them, until Welt arrives and manages knock them unconscious with his Herrscher powers causing the Stellaron to become stable once again.

The Trailblazer later wakes up at the Space Station and Himeko introduces Herta to them, who later took an interest to the Trailblazer due the Stellaron inside their body. She later allows them to keep the Stellaron and to promise to visit Space Station again before Himeko offers the Trailblazer the chance to join the Astral Express in order to find Stellaron and find the answers they have been looking for, which they accept.

Development

Honkai: Star Rail entered its first closed beta testing on October 26, 2021, and ended testing on November 1, 2021.[3][4] A second closed beta test was held on May 25, 2022, and ended testing on June 15, 2022.[5]

See also

• Honkai Impact 3rd, another game in the Honkai series
• Genshin Impact, another game by miHoYo

References

External links

• Official website

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