[Request]: HoyoPlay

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Prerequisites

• I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.

Criteria

• Reasonably well-known and widely used
• A game or a game-related tool
• English interface (or at least English documentation)
• Latest stable or development version
• Full version (i.e. not a trial version)
• Fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)

Name

HoyoPlay

Description

Official launcher for Hoyoverse/Mihoyo games, like Genshin Impact, Honka: Star Rail and more

Homepage

https://hoyoplay.hoyoverse.com/

Download Link(s)

https://download-porter.hoyoverse.com/download-porter/2025/02/21/VYTpXlbWo8_1.4.5.222_1_0_hyp_hoyoverse_prod_202502081529_XFGRLkBk.exe

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

Genshin Impact is in top-10 list of popular PC games, according to this website: https://activeplayer.io/top-15-most-popular-pc-games-of-2022/
Overall game popularity: https://activeplayer.io/genshin-impact/

Plus to above, the launcher has capabilities to run other Hoyoverse projects.

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As a side note, download link looks like this: https://download-porter.hoyoverse.com/download-porter/2025/02/21/VYTpXlbWo8_1.4.5.222_1_0_hyp_hoyoverse_prod_202502081529_XFGRLkBk.exe

While it includes some version info in it, it also has some generated IDs, so I find it kinda difficult to auto-update. Probably manual update process will be required.