How to play Honkai Impact 3rd on Mac

Honkai Impact 3rd is an action game in anime style. The game is developed by miHoYo Limited, the same people that brought you Genshin Impact – indeed, the games share some similarities. Gameplay-wise, Honkai is primarily focused on melee combat (“hack-n-slash”) while also incorporating elements of other genres such as social simulator. The player controls one character in a team of three and can switch between them at any time. Each character has their own, unique skills, and can be further customized by equipping items and “Stigmata”. As not all characters are equipped to fight all enemies, tactically switching between them is required to play efficiently. The game also includes several minigames that are significantly different in gameplay – for example, there is a platforming minigame. But there’s more to Honkai Impact than the gameplay. The game has a fairly complex story about monsters called Honkai. These monsters come to Earth whenever the humanity gets too technologically advanced with the goal of wiping out their progress. Several organizations have sprung up to combat Honkai – the one most central to the plot is Schicksal – the faction that that fights using Valkyries (the characters that the player controls on missions).
Originally a smartphone exclusive available only on Android and iOS, Honkai has since been ported to Windows due to popular demand. And although it did not receive a Mac port, there are still several ways to play Honkai Impact 3rd on Mac.

Play Honkai Impact 3rd on Mac with Parallels

If you have a powerful Mac computer (iMac, iMac Pro, or Mac Pro) Parallels Desktop can be a solution. This is an application that allows for Windows virtualization on Mac with the full support of DirectX and GPUs. In simpler terms, what this means is that it allows you to install Windows 10 on Mac with just a couple of clicks and switch between MacOS and Windows instantly. So you will be able to run Windows, install Steam, and enjoy the Honkai Impact 3rd game on Mac just like on a regular PC.

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Play Honkai Impact 3rd on Mac using Bluestacks

Note: Playing Honkai Impact 3rd on Mac via Bluestacks will allow you to use a keyboard and mouse, however, according to the latest updates, this won’t give you an advantage, as the game uses special separate servers for gamers playing with emulators.

Among the variety of Android emulators, Bluestacks is the most advanced one. Firstly, it is available for both Windows and Mac with full functionality. Secondly, it allows effortless automatic transition to PC game controls, convenient hot-keys, that you are used to from any regular PC game. It provides high performance and graphics in any mobile game even on a relatively weak PC or Mac, as computer processors are usually more powerful than smartphone ones. To run Honkai Impact 3rd on Mac you need to perform these easy steps:

Download Bluestacks

1. Download latest version of Bluestacks for MacOS.
2. Open Play Store and sign-in with your Google account.
3. Download Honkai Impact 3rd from the catalog and run it.
4. Bluestacks may offer you to run better engine for this game.
5. Install the game and start playing!

Play Honkai Impact 3rd on M1 (M2, M3) Mac

Note: According to our research, playing Honkai Impact 3rd on an M1 (M2, M3) Mac may cause a temporary or permanent account ban in the game, that is why it is recommended to play with the secondary account or as a guest.

As you may already know, M Macs (latest Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, Mac Mini, iMac) are able to run many iOS apps and games on MacOS. If for apps it can be useful because many iPad and iPhone apps are very advanced and suitable for desktop usage, in gaming this is just magic. M chips (especially M Pro, M Max, M Ultra) are much more powerful than iPhone and iPad chips, in many types of games (shooters, racing) keyboard and mouse (trackpad) controls are much more useful than touch.

To download and play Honkai Impact 3rd on M1 (M2, M3) Mac do the following:

1. On your iOS device download Honkai Impact 3rd.
2. On your Mac go to Mac App Store and click on your profile in the bottom left corner.
3. Under account click iPhone‌ & ‌iPad‌ Apps.
4. Download Honkai Impact 3rd on your Mac device and start playing!

Play Honkai Impact 3rd on Mac with BootCamp

Note: Mac computers with new Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3 Pro, or M1, M2, M3 Max) currently do not support BootCamp. In this case, please, use the options above to run Honkai Impact 3rd on Mac

This method is simple but time-consuming. If your Mac meets all the system requirements above, you can play Honkai Impact 3rd on Mac by installing Windows. You need to set up a dual boot of Windows and Mac via BootCamp. This is an application that allows users to choose the system to work in on startup, however, you won’t be able to switch between systems like in Parallels. You will need to reboot your machine every time you want to switch from Mac to Windows and vice versa. Remember that Mac is just a computer, in the end. And while newer Macs have their own special Apple Silicon chips that cannot run Windows, older Macs are very much similar to computers that run Windows, they have Intel processors, compatible RAM, disks, and other components. So you can install Windows on an older Mac by allocating no less than 64 GB of disk space (to be able to run Windows and a couple of games) and following these steps:

For OS X El Capitan 10.11 or later

For MacOS versions prior to OS X El Capitan 10.11 you will need to create a bootable Windows USB.

1. Download this Windows ISO file.
2. Open Boot Camp Assistant (Go to Applications > Utilities).
3. Define the Windows partition size and choose the Windows ISO file you’ve downloaded.
4. Format the Windows partition and go through all Windows installation steps.
5. When Windows boots for the first time, follow on-screen instructions to install Boot Camp and Windows support software (drivers)