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Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds is a 2025 action role-playing game developed and published by Capcom. A successor to Monster Hunter: World (2018), the game was released worldwide for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S, with support for cross-platform play, on February 28, 2025.

Role-playing (RPG)Hack and slash/Beat 'em upAdventure

Time to beat: about 19.2 hours

Overview

As with other Monster Hunter games, Wilds has the player control a hunter that is part of a guild assigned to explore the Forbidden Lands, a nearly uninhabitable area with multiple biomes and dangerous storms. During their exploration, the hunters are assigned quests to fight large monsters that threaten their group, either by killing or capturing them. The hunter can then collect resources from their victories, as well as from gathering in the field, to synthesize new weapons and armor with better attributes that allow the hunter to fight stronger monsters. The player has an option of using fourteen different weapon types in combat, each with different combat maneuvers. New to Wilds is the ability to carry up to two weapons into the field using their mounted bird-like Seikrets to swap gear, the ability to set up pop-up camps within the game's open world to create a more seamless hunting experience, and a wound system that allows the player to target weak points on a monster to inflict more damage. The game can be played as a single-player experience or online with up to three additional players during quests. Wilds is the first in the series to support cross-platform play between all versions.

Within three days of release, Wilds sold more than 8 million copies, making it Capcom's fastest-selling game to date. It received generally positive reviews, with praise towards the stronger focus on story and updates to the open world, though the technical aspects of the game received criticism, especially on Windows.