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If you’ve enjoyed other Hoyoverse games such as Genshin Impact, you might wonder if Zenless Zone Zero, Honkai 3rd Impact, or Honkai: Star Rail are worth playing. The good news is that Honkai: Star Rail is an excellent turn-based RPG that’s loads of fun if that’s your steez. Let’s look at Honkai: Star Rail.

Genre

Honkai: Star Rail is a turn-based RPG with gacha elements. It’s possible to complete the story without pulling, but pulling for new characters and Light Cones can diversify your roster and make the game more interesting.

Payment Model

The game is free-to-play with additional characters, Light Cones, and skins available for purchase. The premium currency is primarily used for pulling for new characters and Light Cones, but can also be used to purchase in-game items in the store.

Consumer Friendliness

Honkai: Star Rail is roughly average when it comes to being friendly to consumers. Hoyoverse isn’t overly stingy when it comes to giving away currency and draw tickets. However, they’re also not generous per se. Overall, players will likely be able to pull for the characters they want if they participate in events and play the story, but may have to wait for reruns occasionally if they do not spend real-life money.

Events

Events in Honkai: Star Rail can be story-related or simply challenges. Mihoyo releases new events several times per update and each one is reasonable generous with rewards. One of the recurring events in the game is the battle pass, known as Nameless Honor. The free version, Nameless Honor, gives relatively good rewards for a non-paid battle pass. Nameless Glory, the paid version, gives very good rewards that have a good cost to reward ratio.

Is the Story Any Good?

The story of Honkai: Star Rail is relatively good. It’s loosely based on the Chinese comic Alien, just like Honkai: 3rd Imapct. However, aside from having a few characters that are present in both games, there are no connections between Honkai: 3rd Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. Playing the story is one of the best sources of in-game currency and you’ll need to play through the story to unlock all the in-game raids that you need for character advancement. So, it’s recommended to play it for the resources.

Are the Events Worth It?

Events in gacha games can fall into one of two categories: “We needed content.” and “We know that if we don’t give away something for free all the players will stop playing.” For what it’s worth, the events in Honkai: Star Rail have a good cost-to-reward ratio. They give ample amounts of in-game currency and are very fair to players even if they don’t spend tons of money.

Is It Worth Playing?

Overall, Honkai: Star Rail is worth playing if you like turn-based RPGs. That’s the real key. If you don’t like turn-based RPGs, you won’t like it. However, if you enjoy turn-based RPGs and don’t mind gacha elements to fund your games, you’ll enjoy Honkai: Star Rail.