Genshin Impact

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3.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 609 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 173 out of 609
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 609
  3. Negative: 412 out of 609
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  1. GChenierr
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    Either you're lucky and enjoy
    Either you tryhard asf or pay money
    This game's a f**king trap for single weak teenagers full on hormones or that just cut with their girl/boyfriend some months ago and they try to forget, simping on virtual characters I was one of those teen 16y old me "fell in love" of a girl character named Eula, and put 83$ on this game because I was damn unlucky and    Either you're lucky and enjoy
    Either you tryhard asf or pay money

    This game's a f**king trap for single weak teenagers full on hormones or that just cut with their girl/boyfriend some months ago and they try to forget, simping on virtual characters

    I was one of those teen

    16y old me "fell in love" of a girl character named Eula, and put 83$ on this game because I was damn unlucky and deseperatd, well down bad I guess, and I couldn't afford to let her pass. I was like, almost on depression because of a goddamn video game girl, I litterally went secretly buy a 100$ google play card

    This game was my drug
    And it is
    If you look at it two seconds, most of its character are girls
    It's a damn manipulative game, it's crualty it shouldn't exist

    Yes, the content is good, well I always hated that game anyways, I hate the gameplay even if it's an unpopular opinion, and I hate that it looks like every part of the stories are big characters promotion

    This game could have do way better, but well it's a Gacha, and after having realized how down bad I was, I finally realize all of that

    Don't worry for me, I have a girlfriend now and I found back my independence, and I'm not spending on gacha anymore

    Just, don't play this game if you're young, or don't let your teens play it

    Never. Let. Them. Play it.
    Do it for me please, I don't want to see anyone else doing the same mistakes than I did, ever again

    If Fortnite is a money and addictive trap for kids, Genshin Impact is the Fortnite for teenagers

    (I put 4 because otherwise the music and everything else is a good, so ig as an rpg this game's not that bad, even if it can be dangerous for weak minded people like me)    … Expand
  2. 1cosmos
    Mar 17, 2022
    4
    This game is often compared with Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild but that does so much disrespect to BotW. Or any well designed game in general. The art style and certain mechanics are certainly 'inspired' by BotW, the game design is very mediocre. the objective of the game for the company is to sell to players new playable characters through gacha system. The objective and focus isThis game is often compared with Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild but that does so much disrespect to BotW. Or any well designed game in general. The art style and certain mechanics are certainly 'inspired' by BotW, the game design is very mediocre. the objective of the game for the company is to sell to players new playable characters through gacha system. The objective and focus is not gameplay. While Teyvat is a vast and wonderful place much of the puzzles and enemy encounters are just repetative. However for anyone picking up the game you will have a lot of the main and world quest content to play for free. If you just play this game once in a while when it actually has playable content then for a free game I would rate it as high as 8/10. But if the game intends to keep players playing then it should make the time worth spending and not griding artifact domains.… Expand
  3. ovenlord
    May 22, 2023
    4
    descent gameplay and graphics but the story is bad the monetization and economy is bad and is made by a company trying to suck away your money for a not exactly praiseworthy cause
  4. yuanbo
    Dec 18, 2022
    4
    优点：丰富的剧情故事，手机端游戏当中画质最好的RPG游戏之一，很多角色可以玩， 很多活动。
    缺点：在玩法上与《塞尔达：荒野之息》类似，游戏中几乎重要的材料都可以通过“原石”一种货币来买到。
  5. matthewbigfan
    Sep 28, 2021
    3
    Gave some points for the first half of the game, which is new and fun, plus good environment/ character design and easy to understand gameplay. Still after awhile the game itself became stale and boring, everything just repeated itself and somehow there is still no actual endgame content after 1 year.
    Oh and did I say 1 year? This game gave the most humiliating 1st anniversary "event", it    Gave some points for the first half of the game, which is new and fun, plus good environment/ character design and easy to understand gameplay. Still after awhile the game itself became stale and boring, everything just repeated itself and somehow there is still no actual endgame content after 1 year.
    Oh and did I say 1 year? This game gave the most humiliating 1st anniversary "event", it doesn't even worth to call it event, because nothing happened in-game. Usually farming for anything is so restricted to resin (stamina), and the rewards are abysmal, be it character's materials or primogems for wishing. Players all over the world helped this company to build such a wonderful community and earn so many awards, yet on the anniversary day they received nothing. Don't even bother to do in-game survey, they mean nothing too. Many under-performance characters and bugs didn't get fixed/buffed after tons of patches and player's suggestions. Just don't start this game until miHoYo redeemed themselves.    … Expand
  6. Bethrewhy
    Apr 10, 2022
    3
    It's awful honestly. The story is not completed and the whole company is extended the progress of character build-ups. The gameplay is not really interested, eventually you'll get repeat and repeat again every single time when game got a update, you just search for treasure,kill monster,search treasure. It's fun at first time, but not always after all, there's nothing you can do afterIt's awful honestly. The story is not completed and the whole company is extended the progress of character build-ups. The gameplay is not really interested, eventually you'll get repeat and repeat again every single time when game got a update, you just search for treasure,kill monster,search treasure. It's fun at first time, but not always after all, there's nothing you can do after idle, the NPC is just a robot who speaks when you interact with and they'll always answer in one sentence lol. The soundtrack is groovy but the whole is just dull.… Expand
  7. Viole
    Oct 22, 2020
    2
    In short :

    Genshin Impact is a game advertised as "multi-player" game, with most of their trailer showing anime-style action RPG. It's nice and tidy on the outside, but the sad truth is, it is far from good. The unrewarding exploration, shallow combat system, abysmal Energy (Resin) system with awful gacha system are what making this game not fitting to be a mediocre PC game. But, for a    In short :

    Genshin Impact is a game advertised as "multi-player" game, with most of their trailer showing anime-style action RPG. It's nice and tidy on the outside, but the sad truth is, it is far from good. The unrewarding exploration, shallow combat system, abysmal Energy (Resin) system with awful gacha system are what making this game not fitting to be a mediocre PC game. But, for a mobile game, it is mediocre.

    Long version :

    Pros :

    - The graphic style is nice, it looks well-made and clean
    - World design is pretty good, towns, small villages, ruins, cliffs, hills and including all the small puzzles, it is good for exploring and treasure hunting

    - Music in this game is so good, some of them are relaxing, some are very energetic (mostly of the combat music)

    - Voice acting (I used JP voice) is top-notch, almost all story content and a few side stories is fully-voiced

    - There's cooking and book-collecting for those who loves this kind of collectibles

    Cons :
    - Combat is shallow, it's basically spam attack, use skills, switch chara, use skill, spam attack. Elemental reaction system is meh. It doesn't add any depths whatsoever because it is almost always benefitting the player, making the fight easily forgettable and uninteresting.

    - Sound effect of the attack and the animation of character's attack is meh. Bear in mind there's NO COMBO related in this game, unlike its predecessor, which has ALMOST the same mechanic with character switching combat style. So the all character has only normal attacks with 2 skills. That's it.

    - Mob AI is awful and slow, the mobs in this game is so uninteresting, some of them just walk beside you, idling for 5-10 seconds begging to get hit, even some of the mini-boss AI is just terrible

    - There is no real difficulty, even the bosses pattern are too easy to predict, some of them have 'special condition' to be defeated, but even most of it are basically just attack what's appearing until it's dead

    - Exploration in this game is abysmally unrewarding. There's a certain occasion when you have to explore a different locations (which is far away) to be able to solve a puzzle, after all that effort you're doing, you're just rewarded with : a few in-game currencies that you can spend in 15 seconds, a few equipment that is not any better than what you have by the time you reach that reward and a 3-4 items to level-up your character, which can only increase 5% of your character's level by the time you get the reward

    - Achievement system is abysmally unrewarding. Imagine exploring nooks and crannies of the world, getting all possible collectibles, and what you get is 'congratulations, here, 5 premium currencies' and a dull name card.

    - Wish (gacha) system is so expensive, and the resource to make the wish depletes so quickly as you progress through the game. It costs you 160 Primogems for 1 Wish. Even Achievement only give you 5, a few chests and missions give you 30. Note that the Primogems from chest DOES NOT respawn, and the story missions and quests are VERY SHORT as of this review is dropped.

    - Wish (gacha) rate is abysmal. You need to be VERY LUCKY to pull a 5* on this game, the rate even lower than most of other mobile gacha game. You want that one 5* character? If you're F2P, you must save-up for a few months to be able to guaranteed the pull. If you're gonna spend money, prepare to spend hundreds of dollars to add that character to your team.

    - Stamina system is more of a burden than a feature. You want to explore? Prepare to eat some food or your character can't even run for 15 seconds. You want to climb that cliff? Prepare to climb REALLY SLOW or you won't reach the top.

    - RESIN system is abysmal, terrible, and hindered progression to the point where you only spend 10 minutes a day to play this game. Resin is an Energy system that's implemented in domains, where you farm for artifacts / materials to ascend your weapon or character. The problem is, most of the items that needed to ascend your character are dropped from bosses, which cost 40 Resin for you to be able to get the reward after defeating the boss. You only get 120 Resin, which equals to 3 bosses, and those 120 Resin takes 20 HOURS to fully recharge. On top of that, even though you managed to level-up and ascend your character and weapon, good artifacts is needed to make the character viable to be played on the higher difficulty. This system only hindering progression and lessening the fun to the point of it doesn't get enjoyable anymore.

    The game has potential, but it has to undergo MASSIVE overhaul to able to be mediocre at least. As of now, I personally don't want to invest any more of my time to this game, oh wait, I can only play for 10 minutes a day, but even then, this game doesn't deserve my 10 minutes as of now.    … Expand
  8. Sakamaki
    May 14, 2021
    2
    Một tựa game với thế giới mở nửa mùa , nhàm chán và game play quá thực dụng và thiếu tính sáng tạo.
  9. Geo3891
    Sep 3, 2022
    2
    Que juego tan mas malo, solo es una copia de Breath of the Wild y sin identidad, el %60 del cast de personajes de la historia de Genshin Impact son absurdos y no aportan nada al argumento y solo son puro relleno, y todavía la historia es ridícula y se alarga innecesariamente mientras salen mas actualizaciones y este juego solo se basa en puras micro-transacciones y farmeo masivo todo paraQue juego tan mas malo, solo es una copia de Breath of the Wild y sin identidad, el %60 del cast de personajes de la historia de Genshin Impact son absurdos y no aportan nada al argumento y solo son puro relleno, y todavía la historia es ridícula y se alarga innecesariamente mientras salen mas actualizaciones y este juego solo se basa en puras micro-transacciones y farmeo masivo todo para que al final no te sirva para nada un día después, lo único decente de esta cosa es el soundtrack que solo es DECENTE nunca bueno.… Expand
  10. Medus
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Fighting, lore, open world are pretty good. Loot boxes are total **** so yeah. Hate this game
  11. Avadastro
    Nov 24, 2020
    1
    The game is plagued by limitations and restraints once you hit the endgame which put in place to program addiction into its playerbase.

    It has a good early game which seems almost generous in how much it rewards the player for playing the game but once that is over and the endgame is achieved, the only reason the player has to login is to get the daily quests and use the resin that    The game is plagued by limitations and restraints once you hit the endgame which put in place to program addiction into its playerbase.

    It has a good early game which seems almost generous in how much it rewards the player for playing the game but once that is over and the endgame is achieved, the only reason the player has to login is to get the daily quests and use the resin that accumulates over time and is needed to do literally anything outside of questing and exploration.

    Since hitting the resin cap means you are passively missing out on resin, the system basically forces players to login and use some resin every day if they don't want to be left behind.

    In forcing this to become a routine and then by providing daily unsatisfying gameplay (you barely get to play for about 30-40 minutes max each day) it forces players to either abandon the game or come back the next day for a few minutes in hopes of actually achieving some progress.

    It's the worst kind of predatory game and I really want to congratulate the "journalists) that played it for 2-4 hours then gave it a 9/10 and ensured that a **** of people are exposed to these practices. Stay classy IGN and please drop dead already, nobody respects you, you are the butt of jokes.

    Don't play this **** unless you have way too much money to spend. Even then you will still be forced to only play for a limited time but you can push the limits a bit further with paid currency. The game is unrewarding and frustrating by design to psychologically manipulate you.

    "It's just a gacha game" is not an excuse for it to be actively trying to program people into addicts. I am convinced at this point that Mihoyo didn't really want to make a PC or PS game so much as they wanted to sink their claws into the untapped marked and expose players and children who may not have known of gacha games and how they work to the greedy monetization model they use.    … Expand
  12. Nyanraze
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    Ten 1 por tu aniversario, y agradece que te doy 1. Juego completamente bonito al comienzo para luego terminar siento un juego repetitivo que solo entras dia tras dia a hacer diarias y en vez de enganchar a su comunidad a seguir jugando en su aniversario prefieren pasar completamente de ella.
  13. Salador2606
    Oct 10, 2021
    1
    Красивая донатная помойка. Игра сделана очень красиво и очень интересно. Но без доната играть в неё не возможно.В игре реализованы крайне агрессивные протоколы монетизации. Развод на деньги. Хуже игры в рулетку.
    A beautiful donat dump. The game is very nice and very interesting. But it is not possible to play it without donation. The game implements extremely aggressive monetization    Красивая донатная помойка. Игра сделана очень красиво и очень интересно. Но без доната играть в неё не возможно.В игре реализованы крайне агрессивные протоколы монетизации. Развод на деньги. Хуже игры в рулетку.
    A beautiful donat dump. The game is very nice and very interesting. But it is not possible to play it without donation. The game implements extremely aggressive monetization protocols. Divorce for money. Worse than playing roulette.    … Expand
  14. Sir3rdDimensio
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    The good:
    Graphics
    Combat The Bad Stamina/resin system: very predatory by far the worst ever seen Gacha/Summoning system to acquire items/characters lowest by far Shops the most predatory thus far The end game or current end game is literally 5 mins of logging in and out due to predatory stamina system build (resin) to the point where if you want more than 5 mins of gameplay you    The good:
    Graphics
    Combat
    The Bad
    Stamina/resin system: very predatory by far the worst ever seen
    Gacha/Summoning system to acquire items/characters lowest by far
    Shops the most predatory thus far
    The end game or current end game is literally 5 mins of logging in and out due to predatory stamina system build (resin) to the point where if you want more than 5 mins of gameplay you have to pay.    … Expand
  15. FramAvalon
    Jan 27, 2021
    1
    Nothing is free. For this game, the price is even more than you think. It starts out as a fun single player game, but continue on and you will it consistently restrict you in order to frustrate you until you decide to either give up or pay it money. And it wants a disturbingly huge money; maxing a single character can cost approx. 2.5k USD, due to how the dev set up the system.

    Rewards    Nothing is free. For this game, the price is even more than you think. It starts out as a fun single player game, but continue on and you will it consistently restrict you in order to frustrate you until you decide to either give up or pay it money. And it wants a disturbingly huge money; maxing a single character can cost approx. 2.5k USD, due to how the dev set up the system.

    Rewards are mostly paltry and stingy; most of the time you are only rewarded with Mora (the money in the game). Primos (which is the premium in game currency you can buy with real world money) are given out sparingly in useless small amount or none at all. Same goes to the other materials; the resource pool in this game is too much; characters need experience book (because you get less than 100 exp doing anything else in the world), your weapons need ores to upgrade level, you character's talents/skills also need talent books to be upgraded, both your character and weapons need another round of materials to ascend (because levels are gated) AND there are no other way to increase your character's constellation other than trying your luck in their wish aka gacha system, which accepts real world money, turning it into a gambling machine. This kind of predatory method have been proven to work, and the devs seeks to challenge themselves on how they can take this further. The amount of resources needed are absurd, and you need approx. 12 days to level a newly received characters to be able to use them (due to constantly being restrictred by the devs). Do note that you can speed up all of this by giving them an absurd amount of real money, for a single character.

    Most of the mentioned materials are also restricted from being obtained via the resin system. I don't understand when one of the reviewer from a well-known site state this system is positive for stopping the players from playing to much and promote them to do other things. Why is there no system to stop players from spending too much then? Because it's their money and they can spend however they want? Then how come players can't spend their time however they want, farming for the materials that is required in an absurd amount? The material drops and the artifact's attributes/stats were purposely made to be both horrendously low and terrible (6 out 6 artifacts will be plagued with def% only stats), requiring players to keep repeating it to get what they need, only they can't; the resin system limits what they can do. You can increase it slightly by paying them money (of course). Despite the constant complains, the devs refuse to make any major changes, only giving scarps to placate the rioters (increasing resin to 160 is only so that players don't need to login twice per day to complete BP task), because they are adamant to sell resin in exchange for money; the leak on the CN Playstation Store was done on purpose to gauge reaction. How is it possible that they didn't think there will be backlash is mindboggling.

    I also like to point out that the devs are much more competent in finding ways to restrict players to ask for money instead of fixing bugs or implementing QoL improvement; Hu Tao, a character in the game (yet to be released at the time of writing), was initially a 4* character, aka, not super rare. However after realizing that she became popular before even being released, the devs decided to make her a 5* character. Not because her gameplay kit warrant her to be a 5*, but because they wanted to milk her for profit as much as possible, and making her harder to obtain will lower the rate to obtain her, frustrating her fans to the point they may eventually have to pay more than her worth just to get her. It should be noted that the gacha rate in this game superbly low, and the pool are also huge, so the chances of you getting what you want are also low. You don't just need pay money; you need to pay a ridiculously high amount for it.

    The game mostly pander to fan's fetish, hence the absurd amount of obtainable characters that can only be obtained by gachaing or gambling. As of right now, other than the starter set you received, there are no other ways to increase your character's constellation other than relying on the gacha/gambling system. The consolation rewards for getting dupes from gambling/gachaing are given out in small amount, just like everything else. Lore wise, Paimon is your only companions; nobody else follows you on your adventure, so all those things you read as if they're talking to you while on your journey? Yeah, doesn't happen. You can't even find them in the world unless you're doing their personal quest, and right mostly only the 5* characters have personal quest. This is done mostly to bait you into gachaing/gambling for them. I have yet to see most of the other characters appearing in the story, yet they are already in the gacha pool.

    Not recommend for people with addiction or gambling issues. "Just a gacha game"? Yeah right.    … Expand
  16. ccmkaaa
    Feb 6, 2021
    1
    I give those game 1 point just for really interesting world and plot. But why u creating the game like this (AA+) and doing casino mechanics with all in-game content? They're all looking cool with nice animations and abilities. All of them give us another felt of playing game and exploring the world. But only what devOps doing is just adding casino...
  17. Beast_bendy_345
    Aug 5, 2021
    1
    It was a bad gameplay, bad characters , and a horrible story, the game can be better, and why the game have in-game purchase ? That makes it worse !! And the game looks incomplete, why ? I see it’s a bad game and doesn’t deserve
  18. Spookikoo
    Aug 22, 2021
    1
    I don't understand why people don't see what this game really is. It's just a bad copy of Zelda. It has no mobile optimisation, needs way too much disk space, needs to be connected at any time (it is completely stupid for a mainly single-player game) and, on top of that, it has a dumb pay to win gacha. Don't waste time and money with this thing and simply play another game.
  19. Unter1
    Sep 27, 2021
    1
    Why such small anniversary awards?

    Where are the KFC wings?

    New Persians trash

    And the plot is flawed
  20. Lehandro1204
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    Годовщина плохая, новые персы либо требуют денег для раскрытия потанцевала, либо не работают вообще
  21. Diogee
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    Nice aniversary goodluck next year why the hell do you do this pls reply to the community
  22. linaeven
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    хорошая игра с отвратительными разработчиками, которым плевать на людей.
  23. Meh4
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    Game has so much potential. But ultimately halted by greediness and stupid game design.
  24. Cyberd
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    Eles não se importam com quem joga seja qual seja a plataforma era encontrar os mesmos problemas desde que o jogo saiu.
  25. Chanyeolla
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    I’m disappointed how you failed to acknowledge the issue regarding the anniversary. You could’ve done something to pacify the community by releasing statement, but no, you chose to turn a blind eye and made everyone feel that you’re ignoring the community and you don’t care about your players that is basically giving you revenue. It looks like you only care about profit and don’t give aI’m disappointed how you failed to acknowledge the issue regarding the anniversary. You could’ve done something to pacify the community by releasing statement, but no, you chose to turn a blind eye and made everyone feel that you’re ignoring the community and you don’t care about your players that is basically giving you revenue. It looks like you only care about profit and don’t give a single **** about the community. No official response regarding the issue, very problematic.… Expand
  26. Rheniumm
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    The last few updates are just a mess of **** and urine pouring into the open mouths of the community. The characters are useless and unplayable, the plot does not normally reveal the characters, they feel plastic and faceless. The game is slowly dying for me
    Honored 1 * for Broken Expectations
  27. Psina
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    Донатная помойка даже хуже других гач. Не советую качать тк быстро надоедает
  28. Annt1306
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst game ever Mihoyo! Địt con mẹ mày. Quà sinh nhật 1 năm đâu. Công ty tỷ đô làm ăn như con kẹt.… Expand
  29. Akureikon
    Sep 29, 2021
    1
    I'm not a bot. I'm just fcing sad with how they treat us. 15%, never forget.
  30. Darkrotor
    Sep 30, 2021
    1
    Unfortunately the developers stopped listening to the community, they don't want to fix bugs, add difficult high-end content. Mihoyo just ignores us. Anniversary awards are very bad too
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Metro GameCentral
    Jan 4, 2021
    80
    Whatever your preconceptions may be about a free-to-play gacha game made in China it’s nothing short of stunning, presenting you with a sprawling Zelda-esque open world to explore, the green grass and blue skies looking beautiful thanks to console-grade production values. Even the monetisation isn’t too in-your-face, although it does eventually start to get a bit grindy in the late game. Genshin Impact is easily the most accomplished and alluring Zelda-alike available for mobiles, easily outstripping paid-for rival Oceanhorn and its sequel.
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  2. 148Apps
    Oct 26, 2020
    90
    Genshin Impact is easily the most impressive free-to-play game on mobile. It offers such a rich world that rivals those of ambitious console and PC games while pacing its content such that mini play sessions using touch controls feel satisfying and worthwhile. There's nothing about Genshin Impact's business model that is new or praiseworthy, but it thankfully doesn't get in the way of enjoying what is otherwise a legitimately amazing open-world adventure.
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  3. IGN
    Oct 13, 2020
    90
    Genshin Impact is an amazing open-world adventure that draws heavily on both its Breath of the Wild and anime inspirations to create something truly special. Even if the gacha model introduces some undesirable level grinding deeper in, the excellent combat, addictive exploration, and beautiful world make this one of the most exciting games I've played all year.
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