HoYoverse Codes Roundup: Genshin, Star Rail & Zenless Zone Zero

Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, and Zenless Zone Zero are made by the same studio and share a near-identical code economy: six-week version cycles, a 'special program' livestream four to five days before each major patch, three livestream codes per game per cycle, and a steady drip of milestone codes in between. If you play even two of the three games, treating them as one routine is dramatically more efficient than chasing each game separately.

The currencies are different (Primogems / Stellar Jade / Polychrome), but the redemption flow, the validity windows, and the channel mix are essentially the same. Once you know the rhythm for one, you know it for all three.

Subscribe to the official YouTube channels for the games you play (Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero) and turn on notifications for livestream announcements only. The special program for each game is announced 4-7 days in advance.

On livestream day, plan to be at a screen for the 30-45 minute broadcast or watch the recording within 12 hours. The three codes are revealed during the broadcast and again in a follow-up tweet from the game's official X account. They expire 24-48 hours after release.

Between livestreams, the @GenshinImpact, @honkaistarrail, and @ZZZ_EN accounts post smaller event and milestone codes. These have 3-14 day windows. Bookmark this site and check once a week — that catches almost everything.

Use the web redemption pages (genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/gift, hsr.hoyoverse.com/gift, zenless.hoyoverse.com/redemption) rather than in-game flows when you have multiple codes. Web has no per-code cooldown; in-game makes you close menus between submissions.

All three games use the same HoYoLab account ecosystem. If you logged into HoYoLab through any of them, you can redeem codes for all of them without re-authenticating per game — just switch the game tab on the web redemption page.

Permanent baseline codes (GENSHINGIFT, STARRAILGIFT, ZENLESSGIFT) work as a litmus test for whether redemption is functioning. If those fail on a specific account, the problem is with the account state (wrong server selected, account banned, AR/TL too low), not with the code.

Mail expires 30 days after a code is redeemed. Claim within the same login session whenever possible — the most common reason players say 'my code didn't work' is that the rewards arrived in mail and got purged before being collected.