Wuthering Waves release date, gameplay, and pre-registration

With the Wuthering Waves release date set in stone for May, we have plenty of new details about the upcoming anime gacha game. As a free-to-play, open-world game with a distinct anime style, Wuthering Waves is drawing a lot of attention due to its similarity to Genshin. The game has been in beta testing for a while, but it is nearly ready to ship at long last. Here are the details we know, including gameplay, the gacha system, and how to pre-register for the game.

Wuthering Waves release date

Wuthering Waves will be released on Wednesday, May 22 2024. Wuthering Waves will be released on PC via the Epic Games Store, and Apple and Andriod mobile devices. Announced on Twitter, This release date was set by developers Kuro Games during a special broadcast program on its YouTube channel in March, which also shared information about changes and optimisations being added to the game based on feedback during various testing phases. It has been a long time coming, but we don’t have much longer to wait now.

How to pre-register for Wuthering Waves

As of the special broadcast and the release date announcement, you can now pre-register your interest in Wuthering Waves. To do so, all you need to do is find the app on the Apple App Store if you use iOS or the Google Play Store if you have an Android phone. There will be a PC launch, which you can pre-register for on the official website or the Epic Games Store.

Wuthering Waves gameplay

Wuthering Waves is a free-to-play, open-world anime action game. It features a main character and an overworld to explore, but as you play the game and pull on banners, you will get new characters added to your roster. As we’ve seen from trailers, combat is fast and fluid, showing off characters with flashy moves and the ability to switch between them in combat.

It appears there are a lot of systems present in Wuthring Waves that could be seen as similar to Genshin, especially when it comes to pulling on character and weapon banners, both of which have a fixed drop rate. You need a special currency and you can do one pull or a ten pull. There is a pity system in Wuthering Waves that will guarantee you a five-star, and so on. While Wuthering Waves may look more or less identical to the likes of Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail, it will be interesting to see if it can bring something new and fresh to the gacha scene.