Why I'm Not Excited About Honkai: Star Rail's Dating Sim Leaks

There is a new leak about a possible dating sim game mode in and, given developer HoYoverse’s previous endeavor into the genre within another game, I am not particularly excited about how it will turn out. Dating sims are a romance-based genre of games that allows players to meet characters and, if there is an interest in doing so, strike up romantic relationships with them throughout the larger narrative. HoYoverse has an entire visual novel dedicated to it called, but it seems a portion of the mode will be incorporated into the turn-based RPG.

According to information provided by the leaker known as Ubatcha, which was shared in a post tagged as “” on Reddit, an upcoming update for may incorporate a date-like mode. The leak says that players will be able to go on a date with Robin and that the leaker anticipated it would arrive in Version 2.4. However, with the content not being available in the current patch, it is likely it got pushed into another future patch. The leak mentions that players will travel with Robin to Herta Space Station and another familiar yet unspecified location.

There are rumors of two new Honkai: Star Rail characters arriving after Version 3.0 that will bring back the best combat mechanic so far.

Because the turn-based RPG will likely not embrace a fully-fledged visual novel gameplay style, the rumored dating sim mode for will probably be limited. The precedent set by HoYoverse is the Hangout missions available in, another game by the developer. In Hangouts, players are able to spend some time with the character from the respective quest and explore multiple endings to the story based on their choices throughout the mission. This is standard protocol in dating sims, but the main difference is that none of the characters are actually romanceable.

Instead, players are bound by the confines of their friendly relationship with the existing characters. It is very probable that the characters from will follow the same structure that the ones do