Honkai: Star Rail Review

Honkai: Star Rail reviewed on PC by Jess Reyes.

"Honkai: Star Rail is the best free-to-play game of the year so far. Its stellar storytelling and satisfying progression systems offer dozens of hours of content that a HoYo newcomer can enjoy, even without paying for gacha items or having played Honkai Impact 3rd or Genshin Impact. Combat boasts layers of strategy for those willing to dig into details without barring more casual players from enjoying it. Its worldbuilding also expands outside of the main story into the side missions and interactable objects, making an already captivating world even more lively. It surpasses even Genshin in my mind, and I can see myself playing even months from now."

[IO-hhgw]

Im actually very surprised that their 4 stars are actually very much usable sometimes even better than 5 stars.

[vampiricalchemist]

"Gamers have not abandoned turn based games, developers have." Dunno who said it but its true. This game felt great and the story felt as great as some of the best jrpgs.

[Cloudiroth]

Another thing to mention... all the free characters are actually OP. Sure, they may be power crept in the future, but their kits are built in a way that make them always viable. Also, MC is absolutely essential and is a godsend for end game.

[maeWaMou]

This dude really liked and grinded the game, bro is on lvl 42 lol

[daniwanicki]

If you're on the fence, at least play until the first world boss on Jarilo IV, one of the best battles I've ever done in a RPG!

[crisiscore]

Playing on PC till PS5 release. Great RPG. And definitely fills that turned based rpg void, ive been having

[KeN-wqpu]

the bgm during supreme guardian Boss fight Was pure Art and the fight itself was soooo Can't describe in words

[jlsangyahon]

When a f2p mobile gacha game offers more quality compared to a lot of modern AAA developers, it truly is sad.

[SuperOvidiuMihai]

2:11 why is the cursor visible and in the middle of the screen? what kind of a moster does that?

[TheRealIronMan]

Its basically Mass Effect but anime, the best part for me is the Roguelike Simulated Universe mode, its like Hades but with Turn Based team combat, hopefully they will release new Paths to keep things fresh.

[molotovCOCKTAIL]

Everyone should really keep playing AT LEAST until the final boss fight of Belobog, after that, decide if you’re quitting or not, but you shouldn’t rob yourself of that insane boss fight

[Evanz]

Honkai Star Rail is an amazing case of adding complexity through limitation. Every character’s toolkit is literally one skill and one ultimate, but the synergies and effects make the combat really deep & nuanced. Refreshing in an age where every developer thinks more is better.

[chocobojam]

Definitely another banger from hoyoverse after the huge success of genshin. Only time will tell if this game will be as popular as genshin or not, but it defintely has potential.

[XxPARTYBEARxX]

As a free-to-play gacha game, and the shared amount of content Honkai: Star Rail gives you to play for free is beyond your Triple-A $100 Deluxe Edition game, which requires months of patches to run properly.

[lechungus]

This is probably a weird comparison but the story of Star rail and how we travel from one planet to another feels like One Piece. It's like one piece but in space.

[CoyotesOwn]

Deos it have a Kernel deep anti-cheat like Genshin?

[ms]

This gameplay is a certified seizure inducing banger.

[nethermir]

Deserved rating. The game is really fun.

[bloodrunsclear]

Did you need to have the cursor in the middle of the screen?

[voidboundx]

As someone who didn’t really get into genshin, I’m absolutely HOOKED on this game 🫡