Can you skip cutscenes in Wuthering Waves?

We get it: You appreciate Wuthering Waves and its art style, production value, attention to detail, and story. But the gameplay is the meat of the matter, and skipping cutscenes gets you back into the action.

Kuro Games has finally delivered Wuthering Waves for the masses. The eagerly-anticipated free-to-play RPG had millions of pre-registration sign-ups, and the early hype even filled up its Discord server. Players who got stuck in straight away at launch are learning Wuthering Waves tells its story through a classic medium: cutscenes.

Like many narrative-focused action games, Wuthering Waves has a lot of cutscenes, so let’s see if you can actually skip any of them.

How to skip cutscenes in Wuthering Waves

Pressing L1 or LB using a controller or F or Space on PC skips cutscenes and dialogue that Wuthering Waves doesn’t deem crucial, and mobile phone users can press the skip button that appears too. This is very limited, however.

From our experience, cutscenes concerning the main story can’t be skipped. You can only skip lesser cutscenes and dialogue sequences in side quests, as well as other verbal filler. This is great for when you are out exploring or grinding but doesn’t help you speed through a chunk of the game.

An inordinate amount of lore and world-building happens through cutscenes, but not everyone has time to sit down and watch them all while listening to every word. Even developer Kuro Games realized this was an exclusion bugging some players.

In February, Kuro, via an excerpt on the official Wuthering Waves subredddit, noted it had “implemented the [Skip] function, which aims to improve the players’ overall speed and pacing when experiencing some missions.” This is the version of the feature we have now that allows for limited skipability.

Now, on May 24, the developers confirmed a future update is planned that will “make every type of story content skippable” to provide players more control over their gameplay experience.

“We have received your feedback regarding the Skip function including ‘not enough skippable scenes,’ ‘UI design of the Skip button not readable enough,’ and ‘the main quest storyline feeling lengthy.’ We plan to optimize your experience by introducing support for skipping all types of scenes in storylines and reviewing functions for storyline scripts and cutscenes,” Kuro said.

This means, at some point in the future, the Skip function UI will be reworked, more scenes in the game will be skippable overall, and you will be able to skip character dialogs outside of cutscenes and cinematics.

It’s great to see a developer listening to its playerbase and improving the flow of its game by eventually making most story content skippable. And, if you want to dig further into Wuthering Waves you can learn about how to claim Twitch drops, how to claim Union Level rewards, and how to delete your account.