Genshin Impact Can Learn a Thing From Love and Deepspace’s Birthdays

Gacha games have a fun way of getting avid players invested in characters’ stories and the little details about their lives. Genshin Impact is a great example of this, as it provides interesting information about each of its playable characters, including their birthdays. Whenever a character turns a year older, Genshin Impact sends players their favorite dish and other gifts.

While it’s cool to receive freebies during characters’ birthdays, Genshin Impact also lacks social events to make them feel more special. One gacha game that’s innovating the way players celebrate its characters’ special days is Infold Games’ hit dating sim and action title Love and Deepspace.

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Love and Deepspace Makes Character Birthdays Feel Important

Since launching last year, Love and Deepspace has made waves with its immersive dating mechanics and a cast of attractive male companions. It’s not just a mere dating sim, as it has a compelling storyline and players also engage in exciting battles. Additionally, the gacha system allows them to pull for Memory Cards that not only boost combat stats, but also give players “dating” audio or cutscenes featuring any of their love interests. While it is fun to interact with virtual boyfriends, it’s important for Love and Deepspace fans to level up in order to progress through the story and challenges in order to farm Diamonds.

Just like Genshin Impact, Love and Deepspace characters have canon birthdays as well, allowing players to celebrate their favorites, sometimes via onground events. But Love and Deepspace has made it possible to celebrate in-game through limited-time events with affinity-building activities and dialogue, 5-star Memory reruns, and various cosmetic items. So far, the game has held birthday events for Xavier, Zayne, and Rafayel; newer characters Sylus and Caleb will likely have their first events this year.

Character	Birthday
Xavier	October 16
Zayne	September 5
Rafayel	March 6
Sylus	April 18
Caleb	June 13

Love and Deepspace has managed to turn its characters’ birthdays into social events, where players can accomplish tasks and farm rewards. It’s a smart way to keep them engaged, while also increasing their relationship level with Love and Deepspace‘s characters. Genshin Impact could strike gold if it did something similar in-game to allow fans to connect with certain characters beyond receiving just consumables. That way, its characters’ birthdays would really feel important and worth celebrating, and it’s also a unique storytelling opportunity to further explore their lore.

On the other hand, the volume of Genshin Impact‘s character pool could be a hindrance to holding birthday events similar to Love and Deepspace. As of writing, it has almost 100 playable characters and counting, so it might not be sustainable for HoYoverse to do birthday events for each and every character. The most Genshin Impact could do is to hold monthly events, which would highlight all the celebrants of that month. Love and Deepspace only has five playable companions, and rumors claim that there might only be a total of around 10 characters or fewer down the line. If the rumors are true, this definitely makes it easier for Infold to keep doing special birthday events for its characters.

Genshin Impact’s Potential Endgame Could Be the Current Priority

With Genshin Impact allegedly having a few more Teyvat regions left to explore, many fans believe that the end could be near for the successful gacha game. HoYoverse hasn’t officially confirmed this, but it’s possible that it’s investing its time and effort to make sure that it delivers the best endgame content for its longtime fans. Genshin Impact may not be able to make its characters’ birthdays more interactive in the near future, with its developer likely using its resources to bring the potential final chapters to life. Still, it will hopefully be something considered for further down the road.