They join a band of adventurers, the Trailblazers, traveling from world to world aboard the Astral Express, their space train.

The player character, the Trailblazer, whose name and gender are chosen by the player, awakens without their memory aboard a space station and discovers that they are imbued with a Stellaron, a disruptive cosmic entity.

The game is set in a science-fantasy universe in which humanity follows the paths of beings called Aeons. Elements of open-world and dungeon exploration are present, with multiple mechanics, including the gacha system, carried over from HoYoverse's previous action RPG Genshin Impact.

Honkai: Star Rail follows the gameplay style of classic Japanese role-playing games: players build up a lineup of characters, and control a team of four in turn-based combat. Gameplay A battle in Honkai: Star Rail, showcasing its turn-based combat system. It is the fourth installment in the Honkai series, drawing on characters from Honkai Impact 3rd and gameplay elements from Genshin Impact. It was released on April 26, 2023, for Windows and mobile devices port for PlayStation 5 is planned with a Q4 release window, while the PlayStation 4 version is still yet to be announced, as revealed at the latest Summer Game Fest with a trailer. 'Honkai: Star Dome Railway') is a role-playing gacha video game developed by miHoYo, published by miHoYo in China and worldwide by its Honkai: Star Rail ( Chinese: 崩坏：星穹铁道 pinyin: Bēnghuài: Xīngqióng Tiědào lit. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 255 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the Chinese article.

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