Wuthering Waves is an action role-playing game developed and published by Kuro Games. Every fact here comes from the publisher's own site or the game's public release record, both opened on October 4, 2026. It released on May 23, 2024 for Windows, Android and iOS, with the United States seeing it a day earlier on May 22.
Game Facts
Developer, release dates, platforms, engine and director read from the game's public release record; outfit names from the game's own outfit list, both on October 4, 2026.
Background
Wuthering Waves released on May 23, 2024 for Windows, Android and iOS, with the United States getting it on May 22. The release record shows PlayStation 5 following on January 2, 2025, macOS on March 27, 2025, and Xbox Series X/S on July 10, 2026.
The game was first shown as a teaser in May 2022, roughly two years before launch. Its outfit system was introduced in Version 2.0 — before that point the Rover had no alternate outfits to collect.
How the Game Works
The story follows the Rover, an amnesiac wanderer who has awakened from a deep slumber and sets out to explore this new world. The player takes that role, choosing either the male or the female iteration.
The Rover is joined by a companion named Abby, a small levitating cat-like being, and later learns that a previous iteration of the Rover led an organisation called the Black Shores, whose goal is to fight the Threnodians and Tacet Discords plaguing Solaris-3.
Players control the Rover directly, alongside recruited allies called Resonators, which the release record splits into 4-star and 5-star rarities. The game's main antagonists are the Fractsidus, a secret organisation working to intensify the next and last Lament, which they call the True Lament.
That is where the sourced description ends.
Official Channels
- Wuthering Waves — official site — the publisher's own site, and the source this page is built from.
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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.
Rover
Rover is the game's protagonist. The player takes the role of the Rover, choosing either the male or the female iteration. In the story the Rover is an amnesiac wanderer who has awakened from a deep slumber and sets out to explore a new world, accompanied by a small levitating cat-like companion named Abby.
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Beyond the illustrated entry above, our photo galleries collect real photographs of cosplayers at public events — freely licensed from Wikimedia Commons and credited to each photographer.
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