10 Best Games Like Genshin Impact
Looking for games like Genshin Impact, but don’t know where to start? We’ve got you covered. Genshin Impact has taken the world by storm, as a highly popular gacha RPG, that has a whole roster of characters available to collect. If you’ve found yourself craving something similar, but want a change of scenery, or want something new whilst you wait in-between Genshin Impact updates, read on for our top ten games like Genshin Impact.
- Speaking of updates, check out our guide on the full Genshin Impact Banners list, both current and upcoming, for information on the characters currently available to wish on.
Games Like Genshin Impact
Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch
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Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PS3, PS4
Ni No Kuni is a highly successful RPG from Bandai Namco, instantly recognisable for its artwork, heavily inspired by Studio Ghibli. This colourful world includes the standard fantasy tropes of a lone boy, charged with a destiny of defeating a great evil. It also tackles the sensitive issues around love and loss, with the main character Oliver being tasked with saving his mother over the course of the game.
If these high stakes don’t grip you, the lovable characters with distinct personalities and accents will. Like Genshin Impact, it is firmly rooted in RPG elements, with an emphasis on the characters you meet along the way being of great importance.
Drippy is a lovable sidekick character that operates the same way as Paimon at the beginning of Genshin Impact. Being, to introduce the character to the world they have found themselves in, and act as a wise-cracking guide.
Honkai Impact 3rd
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Platforms: PC, iOS, Android
Created by the same studio as Genshin Impact, miHoYo, Honkai Impact 3rd can reliably be described as a futuristic fantasy version of Genshin Impact. Operating with the same gacha style character system, it is also a free-to-play mobile game, available on iOS, Android and for download on PC.
The story pits you against a great enemy, Honkai while you play as the captain of the ‘Valkyries’, girls born with the ability to harness the great power ‘chaos’. There are 14 Valkyries to collect overall, and 47 Battlesuits (skins that aren’t just used for customisation, but also allow different gameplay abilities) meaning your favourite character’s playstyle can be adjusted if you wish. If you fall in love with Honkai Impact 3rd they also have an array of manga comics available online.
- For details on the latest Genshin Impact update, check out our guide on the 2.7 update, featuring two new characters and events.
The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Wii U
As the winner of the 2017 Game of the Year Award, this instalment of the Zelda franchise hardly needs an introduction. Highly acclaimed and recommended by fans, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild combines a soft Ghibli art style with inventive shrine puzzles and quirky characters.
Like Genshin Impact, this Zelda title is a fully-fledged RPG that begins with the age-old trope of a hero awakening from a long slumber, not knowing where they are but tasked with saving a world in peril. The combat has a similar feel to it to Genshin Impact, with small groups of enemies usually cropping up in the wild, swarming your character but waiting for their turn to be hit, like the combat style popularised by Batman Arkham Knight.
- If you’ve always wanted to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but haven’t because single players aren’t your thing, there’s good news. Read our article on the recent announcement of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer.
Fire Emblem Heroes
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Platforms: Android, iOS
Like Genshin Impact, this game was originally produced for mobiles as a free-to-play game with gacha-style monetisation of characters. It was, in fact, Nintendo’s first attempt at a mobile release of an RPG. Story-wise it follows similar themes to Genshin Impact and starts the game off with two siblings joined against a corrupt empire.
With both PvE and PvP combat, each character is levelled up in a party system and each has unique abilities. The similarities to Genshin Impact don’t end there, characters are rated on a star meter and parties operate with four members at a time with featured tasks and daily challenge modes (named Daily Hero Battles). These daily battles provide players with the opportunity to face off against a team, with the chance to recruit their lead to their own team.
The Alchemist Code
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Platforms: Android, iOS
This is another turn-based RPG made for mobile as a free-to-play game with a monetised gacha system. The Alchemist Code is supported with routine updates and limited time events. the most recent update was on May 19, with an event named the ‘Alchemia Port’ raid. During which the player is tasked with defeating raid bosses to win rewards.
The plot behind this entry features similar sibling relationship themes with the two titular siblings being the founders of alchemy in this world, which angered the gods and caused a split, separating the world of mortals from the gods.
Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time And Space
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Platforms: PC, Android, iOS (Nintendo Switch Release TBA)
This is a free-to-play game with in-app purchases, originally released for mobile. The game is now available on Steam, and is intended for a Switch release, with the date as of yet unconfirmed. The game has a mixture of 2D side-scrolling and 3D gameplay, with a central focus on its turn-based combat system.
The plot, like Genshin Impact, revolves around the struggles of a brother and sister, who are battling against a demon king, hell-bent on using sister Feinne’s powers to erase all humans. The game uses time travel as a plot device, with the brother, Aldo, being launched 800 years into the future whilst trying to save his sister. As such, different acts of the game take place in the past, present and future.
Since its launch, Another Eden has also hosted collaborations with other games, of note being the collaboration with Persona 5 where they included Persona 5 characters as playable.
King’s Raid
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Platforms: Android, iOS, PC
This is another gacha RPG that is free-to-play across mobile and PC platforms. It features more than 70 different heroes to recruit to your ‘hero index’. It hosts a party combat system with characters of varying combat styles and magical abilities.
The plot behind King’s Raid sets the scene with a figure named the Dark Lord Angmund, who is the leader of all demons that have spilt into the lands after a wizard broke the seal to the ‘Demon’s Gate’. Angmund was defeated on the field of battle within the lore of the story, however, the game takes place 100 years later, when stirrings of Angmund’s return to power have arisen. King’s Raid lends itself well to established fantasy elements with 20 distinct races, including elves and vampires, developed in an anime art style.
- If you really want to branch out for Genshin Impact, why not try a farming simulator with a similar, vibrant art style? Here’s our guide on the 10 best farming games.
Persona 5
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Platforms: PS3, PS4
Persona 5 embodies the mantra that characters are everything for an RPG. Without interesting characters with unique backstories and quests, an RPG can quickly fade into obscurity. That isn’t the case of Persona 5, which is highly rated amongst the JRPG community.
Like Genshin Impact, Persona 5 puts great emphasis on its character introductions, with over-the-top cinematics and character title cards. Although anime in art style, unlike Genshin Impact, Persona 5 is heavily stylised to look like a manga comic strip. This makes the game instantly recognisable amongst other JRPGs and compliments the hack and slash elements to the turn-based combat. Building character relationships is an important aspect of this game, reminiscent of the hangout quests in Genshin Impact.
Epic Seven
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Platforms: Android, iOS
This is another anime-style RPG that is free-to-play across mobile platforms and hosts a gacha type of monetisation with daily quests and limited-edition character banners. This adventure begins with a Goddess creating a world from the corpse of her fallen brother, disowning herself from the other Gods, the God IIyros takes issue against this and sends an Archdemon to destroy her creation and its inhabitants.
If this prologue doesn’t already grip you, the ensuing plot will as you play as a decedent of the Goddess, tasked with fighting the Archdemon. Every time her heirs fail, the Goddess Diche re-sets the world and wipes the memories of the ones left living. Main character, Ras sets the scene of the game by waking from a twenty-year sleep, unaware of events in a classic RPG opening.
Pokemon Sword And Shield
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Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Pokemon Sword and Shield are one of the latest instalments of the Pokemon franchise. With RPG elements under the backdrop of a mysterious Chairman, who has a company that is working on harnessing the energy from Wishing Stars to help save the kingdom of Galar.
What links Pokemon Sword and Shield to Genshin Impact is the elemental battle system. Both systems work in a similar way, with elements weak or strong to corresponding ones. For example, in Genshin Impact Pyro enemies are weak to Hydro and immune to Pyro damage, meaning if a skill is performed that includes Pyro, such as overload, the Pyro status effect will not take.
If you’re new to the Pokemon franchise, this is a great option for an entry game, and you’ll already be well versed in how elements work as a combat mechanic.
- For a thorough explanation of the element system in Genshin Impact, read our Genshin Impact Elements guide, detailing status effects and how to combine them.
