PC Gamer is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site. Last but not least for free games like Genshin Impact, is Honkai Impact 3rd. Essentially, it’s a sci-fi and futuristic version of Genshin Impact and is gun game flash even made by the same developers &8212; miHoYo. Breath of the Wild is the one Zelda game that kicked off a generation of open-world games outside the series that were inspired by its gameplay mechanics and/or art style, and Genshin Impact draws plenty of inspiration from it. Link wakes up after a century of slumber with no memory of anything that happened to him, and is tasked with saving Princess Zelda and stopping Calamity Ganon from destroying Hyrule and the world. Here’s the basic premise: What is Genshin Impact and why is it so popular? There’s a reason this action role-playing game has taken the world by storm with its open-world environment and battle system. It’s monetised through game mechanics where players can purchase new characters, weapons and other resources.