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Honkai: Star Rail triumphs at Google Play and App Store awards

HoYoverse takes home some trophies

Marco Wutz

Honkai: Star Rail triumphs at Google Play and App Store awards
Honkai: Star Rail triumphs at Google Play and App Store awards /

While everyone’s looking forward to see who wins out at The Game Awards 2023 in the colossal clash between Baldur’s Gate 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, HoYoverse took center stage at the mobile game awards given out by Google and Apple under the label of their respective stores. The anime-inspired turn-based space RPG Honkai: Star Rail, which launched earlier this year, was crowned as the best game overall on Google Play Store as well as the best iPhone game on the App Store.

In Google’s awards, Honkai: Star Rail additionally took home the trophies for best story, notably beating Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis, and best game for tablets, defeating Marvel Snap.

HoYoverse holds the mobile game world in the palms of its metaphorical hands / HoYoverse

Familiar names appear in the best indies category, which Vampire Survivors won, and best games for good, where Pokémon Sleep nicked victory. Stumble Guys, a pretty blatant Fall Guys rip-off, took best ongoing game ahead of giants like Clash of Clans and EA Sports FC Mobile.

In Apple’s awards, HoYoverse was able to “just” grab the best iPhone game award with its latest release.

Other noteworthy victors here include Lies of P – the Soulslike RPG from NEOWIZ was crowned as the best Mac game of the year – and Unpacking, which was honored for its cultural impact along with Finding Hannah and a few other apps.

Honkai: Star Rail is nominated for best mobile game at The Game Awards, while HoYoverse’s flagship Genshin Impact once again competes in the best ongoing game category. Both titles appear in the Players’ Voice voting as well.

HoYoverse sometimes gives out free in-game currency to players for important milestones like big award victories and this seems to be the case this time as well: Players will receive 800 Stellar Jade via in-game mail on December 1, 2023. That's quite a generous amount.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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