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How to get all free characters in Honkai: Star Rail

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HoYoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail is a sci-fi strategy RPG from the creators of Genshin Impact that give players the chance of unlocking different characters. Instead of live-action combat, Honkai is all about turn-based combat, but still lets you build a party of four characters. If you want to know how to get all the free characters in Honkai: Star Rail, keep on reading.

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How to get Honkai: Star Rail‘s free characters

Like its other gacha game, you’ll have to take a chance at rolling for your favorites. Rolling for character banners allows you the chance to receive one of the many characters in Honkai: Star Rail‘s roster. There’s still no guarantee that you’ll get a character at all, but that’s how gacha games roll—pun intended. You can pay real money to earn more currency for rolling, but you can always just grind for Stellar Jade.

At release, however, there are quite a few characters you can already unlock. Eight characters are available from the start, which you can roll for, or unlock in other free ways. Most of them are 4-stars, but they’re still some of the best in the game so far. We’ll provide you with a list of each free character and how you can unlock them:

How to get all free characters in Honkai: Star Rail

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  • Trailblazer: Your main protagonist, available early on during the story
  • Serval: Reward for Honkai: Star Rail reaching 5 million pre-registrations, check your Mailbox to receive
  • March 7th: Through the tutorial
  • Dan Heng: Also unlocked through the tutorial
  • Asta: After doing your first Warp
  • Herta: After completing your first Simulation mission
  • Natasha: Once you complete main story mission ‘Lying in Rust’
  • Qinque: After clearing ‘Forgotten Hall – Memory Stage 3’ and reaching Trailblaze Level 21

This is a very good set of starter characters that can make any team promising. These characters are also available in Warps, so you can upgrade their Eidolon levels. At least you should know now how to get all eight free Honkai: Star Rail characters.


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Anyka Pettigrew
Anyka Pettigrew has been a Staff Writer for PC Invasion since November 2023 and a Contributing Writer since February 2023. She is a Canadian graduate of a Bachelor of Arts degree who has been writing in games journalism for four years. Anyka is an avid guides writer but also enjoys writing anything from news pieces, to reviews, and even opinion pieces. Having a never-ending passion for video games for as long as she can remember got her into a plethora of genres like action adventure, RPGs, horror, survival etc. Some of her favorite franchises are God of War, Persona, The Last of Us, Zelda, and Resident Evil. She also enjoys reading fantasy and sci-fi books, as well as drawing digital art. Anyka also regularly listens to podcasts on gaming news from 'Kinda Funny Games', and 'Play, Watch, Listen'.