Launched in 2020, it only took about two weeks for miHoYo to realize that they had just created one of the most successful game products in the past few years. Bringing the action role-playing game style with gacha features and above all, taking inspiration from the fighting mechanism from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has made Genshin Impact more attractive than ever. And below are some open world games with super good quality, but it's quite surprising that they are not known by too many people.
Eternal Return
Although the exploration and combat mechanism is very different from Genshin Impact, Eternal Return has similarities through extremely impressive anime-style graphic design that easily makes many people relate to it. Think of miHoYo's blockbuster. In Eternal Return, players are thrown into a vast arena where they must collect items, craft weapons, and upgrade their abilities to fight enemies.
Overall, this game has a survival style combined with a lot of MOBA and depth of content with many characters to unlock.
Star Ocean: The Divine Force
Star Ocean is a series of RPG games with many versions and this series itself has also gone through some not so good times. The climax was the disastrous failure of the Integrity and Faithlessness version in 2016. But with Star Ocean: The Divine Force, everything changed dramatically.
Star Ocean: The Divine Force focuses on sci-fi adventures and all battles use a real-time combat system. Star Ocean allows players to arrange abilities and skills into three combo chains that can then be executed in battle. At first everything is quite basic, but after expanding its skill system, many gamers will be amazed by what Star Ocean: The Divine Force brings.
Medicine 8: Lacrimosa Of Dana
If you are a fan of Genshin Impact, you will definitely not be able to ignore Ys 8: Lacrimosa Of Dana – a game that is extremely similar but not very well known. The game offers fantastic fast-paced combat, a party system that allows for on-the-fly character swapping, and takes place on a large fantasy-themed island shrouded in mystery.
From what I've heard, there's a connection with Genshin Impact, right? Additionally, in Ys 8: Lacrimosa Of Dana, each playable character has its own style, skills, strengths and weaknesses and when combined together, they will create differences and this depends largely on the gamers' tactics.