The popularity of Genshin Impact has seen HoYoverse make a push to capitalize on the RPG's success, announcing Honkai: Star Rail shortly after the game's first anniversary and later revealing Zenless Zone Zero. The RPG quickly became an online phenomenon and has won multiple accolades since its release, most recently taking the Player's Voice Award at the 2022 Game Awards. HoYoverse's newest RPG comes as the developer has seen massive success with Genshin Impact following the game's high-profile launch in late 2020.

Now, HoYoverse is gearing up for its final beta test. Trailers released in the year since its reveal have introduced players to the game's colorful cast of characters and the different realms players can explore.

The newest entry in the Honkai series was first announced in late 2021 with HoYoverse already running multiple closed beta tests with limited access for players looking to try out the game early. People clamor excitedly over displays of extreme cunning, forgetting to worry about the overall dangers of the situation.HoYoverse has announced sign-ups are open for the final closed beta for Honkai: Star Rail, a new space RPG from the Genshin Impact developer. Jing Yuan: 'A truly masterful chess player has no brilliant moves.Asta: 'The Lead Researcher of the Space Station brims with enthusiastic curiosity and boasts unimaginable achievement in the field of astronomy'.Clara: 'A shy young girl with no home, Clara had no choice but to join the prospectors to survive'.Seele: 'A spirited and valiant member of Wildfire who grew up in the perilous Underworld of Belobog'.Gepard: 'An upright and noble captain of the Silvermane Guards who bears the name of the age-old Gepard family'.March 7th: 'A clever, quirky girl was found in a piece of drifting eternal ice she decided to name herself after the date of salvation'.Danheng: 'A cold and reserved young man who wields a spear known as Cloud-Piercer.Welt: 'The wise and sophisticated former Anti-Entropy Sovereign has saved Earth from annihilation time and time again'.Himeko: 'An adventurous scientist who encountered the Astral Express as a child when it got stranded in her home world'.

Nine characters have been named and described on the Honkai Star Rail website:

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