Wuthering Waves (2024)
Wuthering Waves is a 2024 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Kuro Games.
You wake as Rover with your memory gone, in a world still reeling from a catastrophe called the Lament. A cast of Resonators takes you in, and together you range across an open land of storms, ruins, and strange creatures. Combat is quick and reactive, built around precise dodges, counters, and the ability to absorb defeated monsters and turn their powers to your own use. The pull is exploration and momentum: a bright anime-styled world that rewards curiosity, layered movement, and the slow reassembly of who you used to be.
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What is Wuthering Waves about?
You wake as Rover with your memory gone, in a world still reeling from a catastrophe called the Lament. A cast of Resonators takes you in, and together you range across an open land of storms, ruins, and strange creatures. Combat is quick and reactive, built around precise dodges, counters, and the ability to absorb defeated monsters and turn their powers to your own use. The pull is exploration and momentum: a bright anime-styled world that rewards curiosity, layered movement, and the slow reassembly of who you used to be.
When was Wuthering Waves released?
Wuthering Waves was released on 22 May 2024.
Who made Wuthering Waves?
Wuthering Waves was made by Kuro Games.
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A few thoughts on Wuthering Waves
Fans chasing that blend of fluid combat and anime spectacle should watch Hunter x Hunter, where fights turn on reading an opponent and adapting mid-swing. For the amnesiac-hero pull and a world that hides its rules, Fullmetal Alchemist rewards the same patient curiosity. Both trade on momentum and mystery rather than raw power.
Waking up with no memory of who you used to be
Wuthering Waves opens with Rover's memory gone entirely, every answer about their old life buried somewhere in a ruined world. Project Hail Mary strands its astronaut in exactly that same blank-slate mystery, Ghost in the Shell treats memory and identity as never fully solid, Phoenix follows lives and selves cycling through rebirth after rebirth, and The Time Traveler's Wife scrambles memory and identity across a life lived out of order.
Bright anime-style adventures about growing into your own power
Wuthering Waves has Rover absorb the powers of what they defeat, turning every fight into a step toward a stronger self. Avatar: The Last Airbender builds its journey around mastering power one element at a time, Hunter x Hunter tracks that same steady growth across an enormous world, Fullmetal Alchemist trades and earns power through cost and consequence, and My Hero Academia turns raw ability into something worth training for.
Music that scores a world trying to rebuild after catastrophe
Wuthering Waves sets its whole story after the Lament already broke the world, exploration carrying a constant undercurrent of loss. Blade Runner's score turns that same future-gone-wrong mood into pure atmosphere, Deltron 3030 raps its way through a fallen sci-fi future, Repo! The Genetic Opera stages a broken world as full operatic spectacle, and Simulation Theory turns collapse and control into arena-sized rock.