How to register for Honkai: Star Rail’s final closed beta

Next game by the Genshin Impact developers

Marco Wutz | Jan 24, 2023

How to register for Honkai: Star Rail’s final closed beta /

Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse has announced that the final closed beta test for Honkai: Star Rail will begin on February 10, 2023, on PC as well as iOS and Android devices.

Star Rail is a space fantasy RPG set in the company’s already established Honkai universe featuring familiar four-person teams of characters with varying abilities and personalities. Don’t expect a space-themed clone of Genshin Impact, however: Star Rail features a turn-based combat system in contrast to Genshin Impact’s real-time gameplay, while striving to deliver the same exploration and presentation quality.

A man with a big sword facing some enemies. — Honkai: Star Rail features a turn-based combat system / HoYoverse

Honkai: Star Rail’s final closed beta test will allow players to explore the beginnings of the title’s story at a place called Herta Space Station before moving on to Jarilo-VI and Xianzhou Luofu.

Jarilo-VI is a mysterious ice-world harboring many secrets below the surface, while Xianzhou Luofu is a titanic dreadnought containing an entire city. While Jarilo-VI has been playable in previous tests, this will be the debut for Xianzhou Luofu, which the developers say foreshadows upcoming content with an eastern fantasy theme.

An oriental sci-fi city. — Xianzhou Luofu is a brand-new region introducted in this beta test / HoYoverse

Honkai: Star Rail final closed beta registration

If you’re interested in checking out the game before it releases on an as-yet unknown date, you can sign-up to participate in the final closed beta until February 2, 2023, at HoYoverse’s website.

Published Jan 24, 2023

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