Early testing recruitment has opened for Honkai: Nexus Anima, the upcoming creature collector from miHoYo, as announced on the game’s official website. The developer has also released four minutes of in-game footage, offering a sneak peek at what it looks like at this stage of development. Check out the full video here:
The Nexus Anima gameplay reel emphasizes monster activities outside of combat, showing several minigames, including a beach skeet shoot and apparently multiplayer monster footraces. We’re also shown how monster abilities can be used for movement when one character glides through the air atop their monster. Interestingly, actual combat only gets a few seconds at the end. From the fleeting shots we get of it, the battle system looks heavily inspired by Riot’s auto chess title, Teamfight Tactics. Concrete details are scarce, but we’ll learn more once testing starts and player testimonials come out.
The creature collector space has been heating up for years now thanks to several notable indie releases in the genre. Most recently, viral hit Palworld dominated headlines with its silly mix of monster catching, base building, and Fortnite-esque gunfighting (and for being a never-ending target for the famously litigious Nintendo). Honkai: Nexus Anima, however, is one of the few times another major publisher has thrown its hat into the ring.
Check out the game’s ‘Side By Side’ teaser trailer here, too:
