Genshin Impact is in its fourth year and still going strong. However, what keeps players returning to the game? With over nine million monthly players, Genshin Impact has players returning for different reasons. I can’t speak for over nine million people, but I keep playing because I enjoy the story and combat. Story Genshin Impact follows a set of twins as they travel across space and time. The twins land in Teyvat in the middle of a catastrophe. As the two attempt to flee, they are ripped apart by a god. She seals the player character away for 500 years. When we wake up, the world is calm, our sibling is gone, and we’re all alone. We soon meet Paimon, a gluttonous floating fairy, who becomes our traveling companion in our journey to find our sibling. Like all epic tales, finding our sibling is harder than we thought, as the journey has taken us across 6 nations, with one more coming next year. In the past four years, players have fought gods, prevented world-ending disasters, and unearthed the ruins of past calamities. Amidst all the chaos, players have also partaken in festivals, birthdays, and other fun events with the friends we’ve made along the way. Gameplay Basics Genshin Impact is an open-world game where players can control four characters at…
