Honkai: Star Rail

Honkai: Star Rail - A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn

Version 2.7 of Honkai: Star Rail, which includes: • New characters: Sunday and Fugue • New Trailblaze Mission: "A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn" • New areas: Party Car and Trailblazer's Room • New main event…

4 December 2024

What Honkai: Star Rail - A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn is

Honkai: Star Rail - A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Cognosphere and released in 2024. It is available on PlayStation 5, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Some will return, some will soon leave. The Dreamscape is embroiled with murk and uncertainty. To behold the path ahead, one must learn to retrospect.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Honkai series

Honkai: Star Rail - A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn is the 20th of 27 entries we hold in the Honkai series. The next entry was Honkai Impact 3rd: In Search of the Sun in 2025.

See all 27 Honkai games in release order →

What it launched against

Honkai: Star Rail - A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn launched on 4 December 2024, within three weeks of Delta Force, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Marvel Rivals and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Delta Force, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Marvel Rivals, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

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