I love browsing the SteamDB.info. It’s an amazing website for showing game trends on the platform – with every ebb and flow of the Steam community captured and display for weird data-dorks like myself.
And, as someone who got to review Monster Hunter Wilds, I of course spared a moment to check out how it performed on release day.
MHW peaked at 1.3 million players today, while sitting at 41% positive reviews.
This makes it the 8th game to ever reach over 1M CCU on Steam. pic.twitter.com/Azmc4g4fRM
— SteamDB (@SteamDB) February 28, 2025
That is intense, considering that the last few Monster Hunter games on PC pulled positively respectable numbers – these are bananas.
For comparison:
- Monster Hunter: World saw a peak of 334,684 players, 6.6 years ago
- MONSTER HUNTER RISE saw a peak of 231,360 players, 2.7 years ago
As of writing this article, Monster Hunter Wilds has enjoyed a solid peak of 1,384,608 players just 2 days ago.
Observers like TheGamer actually pointed out that Wilds had even passed the peak player counts of Elden Ring, Baldurs Gate 3, and Hogwarts Legacy. And this is just on PC, imagine what the cross platform details must be like.
It is intensely cool to see such a time honoured, arguably niche title blast the sales charts. And it is exciting knowing the love of Monster Hunter is far from slowing down. If anything, it has EXPLODED.
Of course, my excitement might be from a place of bias – I did drop a large 9.5/10 in my review score. While many have mentioned performance issues on lower end cards (the game does have a 41% Mixed feedback score on Steam) I was lucky enough to scrape by in the percent of people who bashed beasties unimpeded.
Honestly, it’s a testament to how the Monster Hunter team takes their delightful creature feature very seriously – a userbase that grows from entry to entry demonstrates that the formula is thriving with each new experience. And performance issues can always be patched.
Here’s to two million players when further content inevitable drops.
Are you currently playing Monster Hunter Wilds? Are you part of the massive Steam army of hunters? Let us know in the comments or on social media.
Known throughout the interwebs simply as M0D3Rn, Ash is bad at video games. An old guard gamer who suffers from being generally opinionated, it comes as no surprise that he is both brutally loyal and yet, fiercely whimsical about all things electronic. On occasion will make a youtube video that actually gets views. Follow him on YouTube @Bad at Video Games
