Sumeru is still receiving new areas and updates with every new patch, but Genshin Impact players already have their eyes set on the future. And what awaits them is the Hydro region of Fontaine, the French-inspired area that is confirmed to be the next place the Traveler will be heading to while looking for its lost sibling.
The final Sumeru Archon Quest had them vocally expressing that exact intent during its final acts, and the more recent Interlude Chapter had another small tease of what’s to come in the next few months. But when will we actually visit this new nation?
When is Fontaine Coming to Genshin Impact?
While there’s no official release date at the moment, we can assume that Fontaine will be arriving around August 15, 2023. According to Hoyoverse’s official roadmap, they plan to release one region per year, which means that Fontaine will not take much longer to come around.
This is also supported since Inazuma arrived in July 2021 while Sumeru took an extra month, being released in August 2022 due to a massive delay for the 2.7 update which affected the length of many subsequent updates in order to adjust the calendar back to the planned schedule. Fontaine seems to be following the same pattern with all of the content we have on it currently.
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Aside from the numerous non-official info regarding the update, we also had the official Drip Marketing for the first few characters in the area, including the very first teased duo Lyney and Lynette. Others will include some newcomers such as the Taylor Swift lookalike Navia or the small girl Sigewinne. We covered all of them earlier if you’re still unsure of who they are.
The next regions, which should be arriving in 2024 and 2025 respectively, are Natlan and Snezhnaya. Khaenri’ah is also confirmed to be visitable, but no information on when or how this should be happening has ever been revealed or leaked yet.
