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How to Download Honkai: Star Rail on Mobile

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Honkai: Star Rail is a single-player, sci-fi adventure game. This adventure RPG will feature turn-based combat, 3D animation, and a sci-fi storyline that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time! Honkai: Star Rail is the fourth installment of the Honkai series by miHoYo, so if you liked any of the previous games made by this developer, then you’ll definitely love Honkay: Star Rail.

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Honkai: Star Rail, like its predecessors, will be available on numerous platforms. One platform it will thankfully be offered on is mobile, which is great for anyone who doesn’t have access to PCs or consoles. Keep reading to figure out how to download Honkai: Star Rail on mobile!

How to Download Honkai: Star Rail on Mobile

Honkai: Star Rail is available on all mobile platforms, in addition to PC. Whether you’ve got a smartphone or a tablet, you should be able to download Honkai: Star Rail with no trouble! Additionally, this game will be 100% free-to-play, so you won’t even have to worry about breaking the bank to get it.

Whether you’ve got an iOS or Android mobile device, you shouldn’t have any problems with downloading Honkai: Star Rail. You won’t be able to download it officially until it comes out, but you can still pre-register for it. Look down below to find out how to download this game from Google Play or the Apple App store.

Google Play Store

Downloading Honkai: Star Rail on Google Play is an incredibly simple process. All you have to do is follow these simple steps:

  • Click on this link to go to the Honkai: Star Rail page in the Google Play store: Honkai: Star Rail
  • Click on the green button that says “Pre-Register”.
  • Once the game is released, you should be automatically notified. Navigate back to this page on April 26th, 2023, and click on the “Install” button to download the game.
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Apple App Store

Downloading Honkai: Star Rail in the Apple App store is every bit as easy as downloading it from the Google Play store. To download Honkai: Star Rail on your Apple device, just follow these simple steps:

  • Click on this link to be taken to the Honkai: Star Rail page in the Apple App store: Honkai: Star Rail
  • Click on the large button that says “Pre-Register”.
  • Once this game is released, you should be automatically notified. Navigate back to this page on April 26, 2023, and click on the “Install” button to download the game.

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What Platforms Will Honkai: Star Rail Be Available On?

At the time of its launch, Honkai: Star Rail will be available on all Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows systems. This may not seem like a lot at first, but it’s actually pretty similar to the number of platforms that previous Honkai games were available on.

In addition to this, there have been rumors that Honkai: Star Rail will be adapted for more platforms later on after its release. So although it will only be available on a handful of platforms at first, it’s still possible that it will be available on more later.


Honkai: Star Rail will undoubtedly be one of the best games to be released in 2023, but it definitely won’t be alone in that respect. There are a lot of awesome games that came out this year, including some that are really similar to Honkai: Star Rail! If you can’t wait for the fourth Honkai installment to come out, then check out Gamer Journalist’s guides for Fire Emblem Engage, One Piece Odyssey, or even Avatar Generations!

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Allysen Pierce is a freelance writer with a passion for gaming who has been a part of the Gamer Journalist team since May 2022. Her main passions are horror games and dating sims (especially combinations of the two), but she has been known to play literally anything that is put in front of her. Her current favorite games include Skyrim, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Cult of the Lamb, Slaughter Horse, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. When she's not playing games (or writing about them), she can be found reading, baking, watching horror movies, or playing with her cat.