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Honkai: Nexus Anima — official Evolution Test key art showing Anima creatures and characters
Unofficial pre-launch tracker

Honkai: Nexus Anima — release date, beta & everything we know

Chromatic Anima tracks Honkai: Nexus Anima, HoYoverse’s creature-collecting auto-battler RPG, ahead of its global launch. Release status, the completed Jul 9 – 27, 2026 Evolution Test, the latest Gamescom demo, characters, Anima and every confirmed detail — updated 2026-09-03.

Key art © HoYoverse · used for identification on this unofficial fan site.

Meet the Animasters

13 characters →
Bai Mei — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterBlade — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterBreadhead — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterHerocrates — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterHua — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterHungrille — Honkai: Nexus Anima character

The Anidex

82 Anima →
Apollinis — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureAtragasus — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBaggle — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBatnyss — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBeaubeanie — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBladehound — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBobabirb — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBroomba — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBunmareen — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureC'locked — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureCamcorgi — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureCapybunner — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureCatnapir — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureChimaura — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureChocllamour — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureChowpownd — Honkai: Nexus Anima creature

Release Date Tracker

Current

No release date has been announced. Follow every confirmed milestone after the Jul 9 – 27, 2026 Evolution Test.

Evolution Test Archive

Ended

The July 9 – 27, 2026 closed beta on PC, iOS and Android — what was tested, how access worked and the archived requirements.

Gamescom 2026 Hands-on

New

What the August demo showed about Lia, Anima-powered exploration, dialogue choices and auto-chess combat — with unknowns kept separate.

How Anima work

Guide

Bonding, Evolution, the rare Chromatic variants and the Nexus Battles auto-battler explained.

What is Nexus Anima?

Guide

The Nexus and the Sundering, gameplay, platforms, and how it compares to Genshin and Palworld.

We add tools only when official data can support them. No speculative tier list, map or build advice is published while the game is still changing.

What is Honkai: Nexus Anima?

Honkai: Nexus Anima is a creature-collecting adventure and auto-battler RPG from HoYoverse — the studio behind Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero; Nexus Anima is the newest entry in the long-running Honkai series, first teased at a Honkai: Star Rail anniversary concert. You play a Planestrider, exploring a realm of Planes bound together by Nexus and bonding with creatures called Anima: fragments of the broken bonds (Nexus) that you collect, evolve, and deploy in an auto-battler. It is free-to-play on PC, iOS, Android. Read the full overview →

Evolution Test gameplay showcase — the official Honkai: Nexus Anima channel.

Why Chromatic Anima?

The game isn’t out yet, and reliable English info is scattered across beta reports and announcements. Chromatic Anima is an independent fan project that pulls it into one place and keeps it current — every fact here is dated and sourced. It already catalogs all 82 revealed Anima and 13 Animasters; when Honkai: Nexus Anima launches, tools will expand only where stable game data makes the answers verifiable.