If you find yourself suffering from Genshin Impact Burnout or looking for something to tide you over until Fontaine releases, look no further than this list.
Best Games Similar to Genshin Impact Listed
Wuthering Waves
Kuro Game’s newest installment is sure to be Genshin Impact’s biggest competition in the coming year. With a beta release alongside Hoyoverse’s newest game, Wuthering Waves is going to be introducing a combination of open-world exploration with a focus on innovating combat skills that are both flexible and unique. In their previous works such as Punishing: Gray Raven, Kuro’s Games adeptness at making their character’s combat both fun and exciting for each different character an exciting journey to uncover. Although the game is limited to mobile, I have not been able to take it off my roster out of good consciousness. With a unique and thrilling sci-fi spin that is very reminiscent of Nier Automata, you are sure to never be bored with this beautiful game and its wonderful cast of characters.
Tower of Fantasy
If you’ve followed Genshin Impact, you would have likely come across Tower of Fantasy, released only last year in 2022 but having met Genshin’s numbers just as quickly when it launched. Although it’s an MMORPG, it has many of the highlights that are praised in Genshin Impact. It has an open world full of puzzles that you can conquer to get free Gacha Pulls in the weapon banner, and speaking of the banner, you get Characters in the form of Weapons you can use with your customized character. Thanks to this, Tower of Fantasy has utilized an arsenal of unique weapons and fighting styles that come with the character that you pull for. In their latest update, there exists a character who uses an Umbrella with fire elements to attack. Very RWBY inspired!
Blue Protocol
Sorry to keep suggesting all these games that aren’t even out yet, but here’s something to keep on an eye on if you just love classic MMO games such as Final Fantasy XIV or even World of Warcraft. Blue Protocol practically oozes with just the good old same formula that has been popular for ages with an anime art style layered over it. With your own customizations, you can build a character that is completely unique to you in whatever class you’d like to specialize in. Fight with friends against over-world enemies or in major raids against bosses or to complete domains. While it hasn’t been brought over to a global server or English server, it does appear to be doing fairly well and proves to be a new unique experience soon to come to us in the coming year.