Open world
Glide anywhere
Every horizon you see is a place you can actually go.
Glide Off a Cliff.
Pick a Horizon.
Go Anywhere.
Free on PC. A huge open world. Runs on mid-range PCs.
See it in motion
Official screenshots from the PC version.
What hooks you
Three reasons players stay past the first evening.
Elements
Combat built on elements
Freeze, burn, electrify: four characters, endless combos.
Characters
A cast to collect
Every character has their own look, story and fighting style.
Who you’ll play
The characters you recruit, combine and upgrade — each one changes how fights play out.
Lauma
The Moonchanter of the Frostmoon Scions — a maiden of the grove with a strange bond to animals and moonlight.
Aino
Nod-Krai’s genius inventor, surrounded by her mechanical family in a workshop that smells of krumkakes.
Flins
A Ratnik of Nod-Krai — or so he likes to introduce himself.
Columbina
The Moon Goddess of Nod-Krai, once a Fatui Harbinger — her friends just call her Columbina.
Sandrone
The Seventh Harbinger, “Marionette”: sees the world through mathematics, never misses a tea party.
Your first evening in Teyvat
You wake as the Traveler, separated from your sibling, in a world of elements and gods. Within the first hour you learn to glide, and from the first cliff you understand the game: every horizon is somewhere you can go. Your first elemental reaction — water, then lightning — shows you how fights work. By the end of the evening, you have a team and a direction.
How to download Genshin Impact on PC
- Press “Play free now” at the top of this page. The free Windows download opens in a new tab.
- Run the installer. It downloads the game files — about 110 GB — so keep that much free space on your drive.
- Launch Genshin Impact once the install finishes. It is free to play from the start.
Can my PC run Genshin?
Rig Check–
Your PC is ready.
Play free nowEstimate based on public GPU benchmarks and the official requirements; RAM (16 GB) and an SSD matter too.
Free? Pay-to-win? Quick answers
- Is it really free?
- Yes.
- Pay-to-win?
- No PvP. A 5★ character is guaranteed within 90 pulls on character banners. The story and the world are free.
- Can my PC run it?
- Minimum: GTX 1050, 8 GB RAM. Recommended: GTX 1060 6 GB, 16 GB RAM. Plan for 110 GB of storage.
- Co-op?
- Yes, up to 4 players.
- What’s new?
- Snezhnaya, the seventh nation, opened in version 7.0 (August 2026): icefields, a train network and a new Stellar Swirl reaction. Version 7.1 followed on September 23.
Ready for your first glide?
Play free nowMore free PC games
Not for you if you want competitive PvP, or your SSD is almost full.
Partner link: we may earn a commission. Sources: GameWith and Destructoid (PC requirements), HoYoverse banner notices, official character pages (genshin.hoyoverse.com), RPG Site and Gematsu (versions 7.0 and 7.1).