Monster Hunter Wilds News

Monster Hunter Wilds sells so fast it just broke a Capcom record

Capcom says Monster Hunter Wilds has surpassed eight million copies sold in just three days, making it the fastest game in the company's history to do so. Wilds has already been a colossal success on Steam despite the mixed reviews, and now we know just how well the newest entry in one of Capcom's flagship series has done.

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Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 25 Feb — 4 March 2025

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Monster Hunter Wilds dominated Steam so hard this weekend that a new game from a Nintendo legend attracted a mere 5 reviews, and another dev tweeted they hadn't sold 'a single game' since Wilds released

The Steam concurrent player count chart for Monster Hunter Wilds on SteamDB is comically vertical: in two hours Thursday night it shot from zero to just shy of a million players, and the rest of the weekend saw player levels wax and wane from around 600,000 to 1.3 million as hunters pulled themselves away from monster slaying to catch some sleep. It was a very good weekend for Monster Hunter, but maybe not such a great weekend for smaller games on Steam capsized by Wilds' tidal wave-sized wake...
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I've been playing Monster Hunter for 10 years and even I'm terrified of this Wilds speedrunner deleting a Tempered Gravios in 37 seconds

I only have faint memories of fighting my first Gravios in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate on the 3DS sometime in 2015, but I'm sure it involved a lot of impotent flailing with weapons that couldn't penetrate its rocky hide. Since then, my hunting craft has improved enough that, in Wilds, I can crack open the wyvern's stone-plated underbelly and have it hunted, carved, and turned into slacks in just a couple minutes...
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There's already a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to change your appearance without a DLC voucher

Monster Hunter Wilds has an impressive character creator, letting players make all manner of Ronalds McDonald and Hatsunes Miku (which you can use yourself by importing Wilds character design codes). It also lets me make an unsettlingly accurate recreation of my own face so I can watch my mild-mannered, writerly self annihilate condominium-scale reptiles. Capcom, however, has identified our universal desire to have cool-looking characters as a source of potential revenue...
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