Revision history: Wuthering Waves

Wuthering Waves is a free-to-play open-world action RPG developed and published by Kuro Games of Guangzhou. It launched on May 22, 2024 for Windows, iOS, and Android, reached PlayStation 5 in January 2025 and Steam in April 2025, and launches on Xbox Series X|S on July 10, 2026 with Version 3.5. [3] [2] Tencent acquired a majority stake in Kuro Games in late 2024; the studio continues to operate the game itself. [3]

The game is the most direct large-scale competitor to Genshin Impact, and its gacha tweaks the HoYoverse formula in the player's favor at several points.

Pull system

Main article: Convenes

Pulls are called Convenes and playable characters are Resonators. The limited Featured Resonator Convene publishes these numbers: [1]

Parameter	Value
Base 5-star rate	0.8% per convene
Average 5-star rate including guarantee	1.8%
Hard pity	80 convenes, 5-star guaranteed
Cost per convene	160 Astrite (1 Radiant Tide)

The featured guarantee is a 50/50: a lost flip guarantees the featured Resonator on the next 5-star, for a worst case of 160 convenes. Community measurements place a soft pity ramp near convene 66; Kuro Games does not publish soft pity values.

Weapon banner

The Featured Weapon Convene is notable for having no 50/50 at all: every 5-star result is the featured weapon, with the same 0.8% base rate and 80-pull hard pity, so a featured weapon costs at most 80 convenes. [1] This is one of the friendlier weapon banners among major gacha games; compare the 75/25 systems in Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero on the pity comparison table.

Collaboration and special banners

The game's first external collaboration ran in Version 3.4 (June 8 to July 9, 2026) with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners: the collaboration character used a separate convene with its own currency and pity pool, and a second collaboration character was given away free. Version 3.5 (July 10, 2026) adds Starpath Reverbs, a rerun banner covering six characters from the game's first year together with their signature weapons.

Service status

Main article: Release history

The game is in active service on all platforms as of July 2026. Base rates, pity counts, and the weapon banner's full guarantee are unchanged since launch.

Wuthering Waves is a free-to-play open-world action RPG developed and published by Kuro Games of Guangzhou. It launched on May 22, 2024 for Windows, iOS, and Android, reached PlayStation 5 in January 2025 and Steam in April 2025, and launches on Xbox Series X|S on July 10, 2026 with Version 3.5. [3] [2] Tencent acquired a majority stake in Kuro Games in late 2024; the studio continues to operate the game itself. [3]

The game is the most direct large-scale competitor to Genshin Impact, and its gacha tweaks the HoYoverse formula in the player's favor at several points.

Pull system

Pulls are called Convenes and playable characters are Resonators. The limited Featured Resonator Convene publishes these numbers: [1]

Parameter	Value
Base 5-star rate	0.8% per convene
Average 5-star rate including guarantee	1.8%
Hard pity	80 convenes, 5-star guaranteed
Cost per convene	160 Astrite (1 Radiant Tide)

The featured guarantee is a 50/50: a lost flip guarantees the featured Resonator on the next 5-star, for a worst case of 160 convenes. Community measurements place a soft pity ramp near convene 66; Kuro Games does not publish soft pity values.

Weapon banner

The Featured Weapon Convene is notable for having no 50/50 at all: every 5-star result is the featured weapon, with the same 0.8% base rate and 80-pull hard pity, so a featured weapon costs at most 80 convenes. [1] This is one of the friendlier weapon banners among major gacha games; compare the 75/25 systems in Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero on the pity comparison table.

Collaboration and special banners

The game's first external collaboration ran in Version 3.4 (June 8 to July 9, 2026) with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners: the collaboration character used a separate convene with its own currency and pity pool, and a second collaboration character was given away free. Version 3.5 (July 10, 2026) adds Starpath Reverbs, a rerun banner covering six characters from the game's first year together with their signature weapons.

Service status

The game is in active service on all platforms as of July 2026. Base rates, pity counts, and the weapon banner's full guarantee are unchanged since launch.