Honor of Kings rebrands to Honor of Kings Plus with "biggest version update yet"

The international version of the mobile games industry's top-grossing title Honor of Kings is rebranding tomorrow with a name change to Honor of Kings Plus.

The change coincides with the MOBA’s major new update on June 24th, 2025, described as its "biggest version update yet".

Tomorrow, Tencent will add real-time voice-to-text translation, tweak in-game spawn times and rewards, overhaul the Honor Pass and allow players to customise their own avatar called Flowborn.

Entering the arena

Honor of Kings’ major update was said to be "greatly influenced" by community feedback. The voice-to-text translation, for example, will allow teams to communicate more easily across language barriers and enable players to make new friends.

The feature will initially support English, Chinese, Indonesian and Malay. The dev team is open to expanding this in the future.

Meanwhile, the Honor Pass was among the "major pain points" highlighted by players, so the dev team has overhauled this into a streamlined mission system ready for tomorrow’s update. Players will also receive a free Elite Pass for the first month after the update, while the Deluxe Pass will grant an additional 398 tokens to be used in future passes.

The Flowborn avatar is a major selling point of the update and is set to launch in the Marksman class. Flowborn will receive Tank and Mage class options in July. The avatar will have customisable hairstyles, skin tones, outfits, weapons and skills.

"As a live game the onus is on the development team to listen closely to player feedback and continue to evolve Honor of Kings," said Honor of Kings chief designer Dean Huang.

"With Honor of Kings Plus, we have really pushed ourselves to introduce new, groundbreaking and engaging content and refine existing features. We look forward to the response of the community."

The major update comes as Honor of Kings approaches $20 billion in lifetime player spending between Google Play and the App Store alone.

Notably, the overhaul does not reflect any much-needed attempt to reinvigorate player spending but rather follows shortly after a record high - as AppMagic data suggests, Honor of Kings had its best month ever this February at $283.7 million.

2024 was also the game’s third consecutive year at the pinnacle of player spending charts and its sixth year on top overall.