Honkai: Star Rail

Honkai: Star Rail - Before Their Deaths

Version 3.5 of Honkai: Star Rail, which includes: • New characters: Hysilens and Cerydra • New Trailblaze Mission: "Before Their Deaths" • New areas: Styxia • New main event: Chrysos Maze Grand Restaurant •…

13 August 2025

What Honkai: Star Rail - Before Their Deaths is

Honkai: Star Rail - Before Their Deaths is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Cognosphere and released in 2025. It is available on PlayStation 5, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Countless embers illuminate this firmament of night, each burning with their own radiance... But there is only one star that has remained eternal in the vast and deep.

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 - Before Their Deaths is the 27th of 27 entries we hold in the Honkai series. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

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What it launched against

Honkai: Star Rail - Before Their Deaths launched on 13 August 2025, within three weeks of Mafia: The Old Country, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Mafia: The Old Country, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.

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