3.5 Honkai: Star Rail Release Date Set

HoYoVerse shared the 3.5 Honkai: Star Rail update release date, and it is exactly what we expected it to be. It will launch on August 13, 2025, which is the day the Blade, Firefly, and Jingliu banner ended. It will also mark the continuance of the Trailblazer mission on Amphoreus. We’ll see Hysilens, aka Helektra, in the first half alongside a Kafka rerun banner, and Cerydra and Silver Wolf will in the second half of the update as focus banner characters. 

Here’s the official Honkai: Star Rail trailer for 3.5: Before Their Deaths. It features a number of Chrysos Heirs, before showing characters like the Trailblazer, Dan Heng, Himiko, The Herta also joining in the fight alongside new units Cerydra and Hysilens.

We got to see the full Special Program before that, which covered the Honkai: Star Rail update release date, and the full archive of that stream is below. It confirmed there will be a Gift of Odyssey login event with 10 free pulls on the banner with Star Rail Special Pass giveaways. It also went over the Chrysos Maze Grand Restaurant, Old Brews and New Friends, and Space Station Task Force events.

The official site also went over the additions.

Honkai: Star Rail is available for the PS5, PC, and mobile devices, and the 3.5 patch will arrive on August 13, 2025.