How many people play Genshin Impact? Player count & population tracker (2025)

A cinematic screenshot of the Traveler during the 5.1 promotional trailer for Genshin Impact.HoYoverse

Genshin Impact has been one of the most popular gacha games since its surprise launch in September 2020, and its player count is still strong over four years later.

HoYoverse’s Genshin Impact has been a massive success and paved the way for more titles including Honkai Star Rail, and Zenless Zone Zero. With a big roster of characters, exciting action-combat, and an open world to explore there’s a lot of content to dive into.

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In January 2025, Genshin still retains a huge fanbase, and we’ve got a rundown of the player count below.

Genshin Impact player count

According to Activeplayer, as of January 2025, Genshin Impact has had an average of 64,107,565 players in the last 30 days.

Regardless of some dips in numbers throughout 2024, Genshin Impact maintained over 60 million monthly players for the majority of the year only dropping below this in summertime which we’ve evidenced in the graph below.

A custom graph with displaying Genshin Impact's monthly player count in 2024 so far.Dexerto

Player Count compared to competitors

In comparison to other gacha titles, Genshin has a huge player base. While Honkai Star Rail holds an average of 3 million players right now, it pales when compared to Genshin Impact’s 60 mil.

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One of the biggest gacha games released in 2024 was Solo Leveling: Arise, based on the popular anime of the same name. However, Genshin is massively ahead of Arise regarding player count at the time of writing.

We’ve provided a more detailed look at recent numbers compared to some key competitors in the graph below:

A custom graph highlighting Genshin Impact's player count compared to other gacha games including Zenless Zone Zero and Solo Leveling: Arise.Dexerto

That’s all we know about Genshin Impact’s player count in January 2025. For more on the game, check our redeem codes, current banners, free characters, and what we know about version 5.2 so far.

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