HoYoverse announces Saber and free Archer for Honkai: Star Rail x Fate UBW collab

HoYoverse has announced two limited characters for the upcoming collaboration between its own Honkai: Star Rail and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works as well as the start date — “Sweet Dreams and the Holy Grail” will make its way into HSR on July 11, 2025.

Players will be able to claim 5-Star Archer (Emiya) for free by logging in during the crossover, while 5-Star Saber (Artoria) will be available as a banner character. Archer will be a Hunt character who deals Quantum DMG, while Saber will be a Destruction character dealing Wind DMG.

A teaser shown during the concert celebrating the second anniversary of HSR included Saber using her Noble Phantasm, Excalibur, in HSR’s visual style. Naturally, we can assume that it’ll be her Ultimate in the game.

The Honkai team at HoYoverse notoriously admires Kinoko Nasu’s Fate universe and HSR lead designer Chengnan An recently told us that they “want to recreate some of the experiences of Fate” over the course of the long-awaited collaboration, which was first revealed last year.

During the concert, HoYoverse also teased an upcoming Honkai game, which can likely be identified as the recently trademarked Honkai: Nexus Anima.