Is Wuthering Waves free to play?

Yes. Wuthering Waves costs nothing to download or play. Kuro Games lists it as "Free To Play" on Steam, the PlayStation Store UK prices it as "Free", and the App Store lists it as free with in-app purchases. On Android, Google Play offers it as a free install.

What you can pay for is optional: Lunites (the paid currency), a 30-day Lunite Subscription and one-off bundles.

Where can you play Wuthering Waves for free?

• PC: free on Steam (Windows), where it arrived on 28 April 2025.
• PS5: free on the PlayStation Store UK. The listing says "Online play required" and "In-game purchases optional". It doesn't say PlayStation Plus is needed to play; Plus Premium is only needed for cloud streaming.
• iOS and Android: free on the App Store and Google Play, sold by HK KURO GAMES LIMITED.

What does Wuthering Waves cost if you pay?

On the PlayStation Store UK, read on 31 October 2026:

Item	Price	What you get
300 Lunites	£4.99	300 Lunites, plus 300 extra on your first purchase and 30 extra after that
6,480 Lunites	£79.99	6,480 Lunites, plus 6,480 extra on your first purchase and 1,600 extra after that
Lunite Subscription	£4.99	300 Lunites at once, then 90 Astrites a day for 30 days
Awakening Bundle	£7.99	5 Lustrous Tides, upgrade materials and 500,000 Shell Credits

The packs in between (60 Lunites for £0.79 up to 3,280 for £49.99) are on the Wuthering Waves page, with the price per Lunite worked out for each.

What do Lunites buy?

The PlayStation Store's description of the Lunite Subscription explains the chain. Lunites buy some in-game bundles and can be exchanged for Astrites. Astrites are exchanged for Convene items (Radiant Tides, Forging Tides and Lustrous Tides), which are used on the Convene page "to obtain rare Weapons and Resonators". Astrites can also buy items such as Waveplates.

Does Wuthering Waves sell random items?

Yes. Convenes are random: you don't know which Resonator or weapon you'll get before you spend a Tide. The PlayStation Store UK lists "In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items)" among the game's rating descriptors, and Google Play shows "In-game purchases (includes random items)".

Kuro does publish the Convene rates on the web. Its official Convene Details notice gives a 0.8% base rate for a 5-Star, 1.8% consolidated once the guarantee is counted, and a 5-Star within 80 Convenes. On Featured Resonator Convenes the first 5-Star is a 50/50 for the featured Resonator, and if it isn't the featured one, the next 5-Star is. Every 10 Convenes guarantee at least one 4-Star or better. Our guide to Wuthering Waves soft pity covers what Kuro confirms and what it doesn't, and our guide to how pity works explains what a guarantee like that does to your odds.

If you'd rather pay nothing and still trade for the paid currency, see is Warframe free to play. For a free game with limits on free accounts, see is Guild Wars 2 free to play.

How we checked

The free listings come from the Steam store page, the PlayStation Store UK, the App Store and Google Play, all read on 31 October 2026. Prices and pack descriptions are the PlayStation Store UK product pages, read the same day; the in-between pack prices on the game page were read on 3 October 2026. The Convene rates and guarantees are from Kuro Games' official Convene Details notice, read on 7 November 2026.