Honkai Star Rail Breaks Genshin Impact’s First Week Milestone in a Day; the Spiritual Successor Exceeds Expectations

After three years of anticipation, the Genshin Impact community was treated to a whole new adventure in the form of Honkai Star Rail. This new RPG game had high hopes and was expected to meet Genshin’s standards. Though not an actual sequel, the community can consider Star Rail as a spiritual successor of Genshin.

The game now has proved its worth, and even has surpassed the Teyvat Wonder. Honkai Star Rail is now etching its own success path with glorious numbers.

Honkai Star Rail is on a dream run

Genshin Impact is considered a monumental success. The RPG wonder that narrated the story of the traveler who is in pursuit of their lost sibling is well-adored by the fans. Characters like Paimon, Klee, Qiqi, Xiao, Ei, Zhongli, Jean, and others made the game more exciting. The game offered a plethora of engaging content for gamers. Thus, when Honkai Star Rail was announced the expectations were sky-high.

It seems that the new game has succeeded in achieving this feat. It broke its spiritual predecessor’s numbers in one day. That is, Genshin Impact had around 14 million mobile downloads in the first four days. This remarkable feat was overtaken by Honkai Star Rail in under 24 hours. According to reports, Star Rail crossed the 20 million mark in less than a day. This is a monumental victory for the developers, who were striving to make the new game reach Genshin’s glorious milestones.

Honkai Star Rail already had a gigantic 10 million pre-registrations which catered a lot to this new record. Moreover, the fans were eagerly waiting for the title for more than three years. Genshin Impact sure had done a trick on the gamers, thus it benefited Star Rail upon its release.

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There are quite a lot of similarities between both titles as well. The artistic style which pleased the Genshin gamers can be found in Star Rail as well. Moreover, the studio has tried to maintain its intriguing and exquisite character design, which appeals to the fans. Even the protagonist’s styling is similar, that is, a nameless character who embarks on a celestial journey through an astral express train. Though the crux and the world mechanisms are quite different.

Moreover, the spiritual successor is a semi-open-world game with a turn-based mechanism. This is an attempt by HoYoverse to explore various genres in the field of gaming.

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