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Genshin Impact

Open-world action RPG from miHoYo, published outside China by HoYoverse.

Last checked October 4, 2026 Action role-playing miHoYo
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Genshin Impact is an action role-playing game developed by miHoYo and published outside China by HoYoverse. Every fact on this page comes from the publisher's own site or the game's public release record, both of which we opened on October 4, 2026. It launched on September 28, 2020 for Android, iOS, PlayStation 4 and Windows, and the official site was still publishing sixth-anniversary material on September 28, 2026, six years to the day.

Sources: the publisher's own release record and the live official site.

Game Facts

DevelopermiHoYoShanghai, China
PublishermiHoYo / HoYoverseHoYoverse outside China
First releaseSep 28, 2020Android, iOS, PS4, Windows
GenreAction RPGopen-world
Business modelFree to playin-game purchases
EngineUnityper the public release record
ProtagonistAether or Lumineplayer's choice at start
Later platformsPS5, Xbox, HarmonyOS2021, 2024, 2025

Publisher, release dates, platforms and engine read from the game's public release record and the official site on October 4, 2026.

Background

Genshin Impact launched on September 28, 2020 for Android, iOS, PlayStation 4 and Windows. The release record shows PlayStation 5 following on April 28, 2021, Xbox Series X/S on November 20, 2024, and HarmonyOS 5 on September 10, 2025. The same record lists PlayStation 4 support as ending in April 2026.

The official site is the clearest check on whether the game is still running live service. On October 4, 2026 its news feed carried items dated within the previous six days, including a sixth-anniversary letter published on September 28, 2026 and an October calendar wallpaper post on September 30, 2026. A game still shipping monthly wallpapers six years after launch is a game still being operated.

How the Game Works

The story follows the Traveler, an interstellar adventurer who is separated from their twin sibling after the two land in Teyvat. Together with their guide Paimon, the Traveler journeys across the nations of Teyvat in search of their lost sibling.

Players may choose to play as either Aether, the brother, or Lumine, the sister. Both are the same character in the story — the Traveler — and the choice decides which of the two the player controls.

Official Channels

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Cosplay

Our cosplay column covers one female lead from this game as a costume design study. It is an illustrated entry, not a photograph of a real cosplayer, and we say so on the page itself.

Illustration of a traveller looking out over a fantasy valley

Lumine

Lumine is the female option for the Traveler, the game's player character. Players choose between Aether, the brother, and Lumine, the sister, at the start of the game; the Traveler is an interstellar adventurer separated from their twin sibling after the two land in Teyvat, and journeys across its nations with the guide Paimon in search of the lost sibling.

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Cosplay photo galleries

Beyond the illustrated entry above, our photo galleries collect real photographs of cosplayers at public events — freely licensed from Wikimedia Commons or Flickr and credited to each photographer.

Ganyu cosplay photographGanyu · 24 Lumine cosplay photographLumine · 33 Hu Tao cosplay photographHu Tao · 24 Kirara cosplay photographKirara · 24 Furina cosplay photographFurina · 24 Nahida cosplay photographNahida · 24 Nilou cosplay photographNilou · 24 Klee cosplay photographKlee · 24 Keqing cosplay photographKeqing · 24 Ineffa cosplay photographIneffa · 24 Kamisato Ayaka cosplay photographKamisato Ayaka · 24 Navia cosplay photographNavia · 23 Yae Miko cosplay photographYae Miko · 22 Venti cosplay photographVenti · 22 Mona cosplay photographMona · 22 Barbara cosplay photographBarbara · 17 Shenhe cosplay photographShenhe · 17 Wanderer cosplay photographWanderer · 16 Yaoyao cosplay photographYaoyao · 16 Sigewinne cosplay photographSigewinne · 13 Xiao cosplay photographXiao · 13 Zhongli cosplay photographZhongli · 13 Ningguang cosplay photographNingguang · 15 Fischl cosplay photographFischl · 12 Gorou cosplay photographGorou · 11 Eula cosplay photographEula · 10 Kaedehara Kazuha cosplay photographKaedehara Kazuha · 10 Mavuika cosplay photographMavuika · 9 Thoma cosplay photographThoma · 9 Alhaitham cosplay photographAlhaitham · 8 Primogem cosplay photographPrimogem · 7 Tartaglia cosplay photographTartaglia · 7 Lynette cosplay photographLynette · 8 Kuki Shinobu cosplay photographKuki Shinobu · 6 Yelan cosplay photographYelan · 6 Tighnari cosplay photographTighnari · 6 Qiqi cosplay photographQiqi · 6 Arlecchino cosplay photographArlecchino · 6 Raiden Makoto cosplay photographRaiden Makoto · 6 Hilichurl cosplay photographHilichurl · 5 Dehya cosplay photographDehya · 5 Sangonomiya Kokomi cosplay photographSangonomiya Kokomi · 5 Wriothesley cosplay photographWriothesley · 4 Sucrose cosplay photographSucrose · 4 Columbina cosplay photographColumbina · 4 Aether cosplay photographAether · 3 Abyss Mage cosplay photographAbyss Mage · 3 Beidou cosplay photographBeidou · 3 Yanfei cosplay photographYanfei · 3 La Signora cosplay photographLa Signora · 3 Albedo cosplay photographAlbedo · 3 Collei cosplay photographCollei · 3 Amber cosplay photographAmber · 3

Update Rule

We do not restamp this page just to look fresh. It records what was checked, when it was checked, and where the evidence runs out. If the publisher's own material changes, this page gets corrected; if we simply have nothing new to add, the date stays where it is.

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