Honkai: Star Rail

Honkai: Star Rail is an all-new strategy-RPG title in the Honkai series that takes players on a cosmic adventure across the stars. Hop aboard the Astral Express and experience the galaxy's infinite wonders on…

90 26 April 2023

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Turn-based strategy (TBS) Action Fantasy Science fiction

Honkai: Star Rail is an adventure developed by HoYoverse, released 26 April 2023 on PlayStation 5, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 90 hrs to finish.

Verified 10 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Honkai: Star Rail is

Honkai: Star Rail is an adventure game developed by HoYoverse and released in 2023. It was published by Cognosphere. It is available on PlayStation 5, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The main story of Honkai: Star Rail follows the Trailblazer, an artificially created creature in whose bodies the Stellaron hunters have sealed a cosmic phenomenon called Stellaron (also known as “cancer of all worlds”). After the revival, the main character of the crew of the Astral Express is followed. Together, the crew travels from planet to planet as part of so-called trail blaze missions to continue the legacy of the Aeon (God) Akivili, pacify enemy factions and seal the destructive Stellarone.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Honkai series

Honkai: Star Rail is the sixth of 27 entries we hold in the Honkai series. It arrived 3 years after Durandal. The next entry was Honkai: Star Rail - Galactic Roaming in 2023.

See all 27 Honkai games in release order →

How it was received

Honkai: Star Rail holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Players rate it 83, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 90 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 795 hrs, roughly 8.8 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Honkai: Star Rail launched on 26 April 2023, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Darkest Dungeon II. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Darkest Dungeon II.

Cheats and codes

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