Monster Hunter Wilds hype fuels Monster Hunter World to its highest Steam player count in 3 years
Dec. 19, 202394,680 players is World’s 24-hour peak
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Monster Hunter World has seen a giant player spike on Steam followingCapcom’s campaign to revive the game’s online scene.
It’s not just old players that are apparently flowing back to World on Steam. Steam has Monster Hunter World in its top-sellers chart at the time of writing, which means the huge 67% discount Capcom put on Steam for the #ReturnToWorld campaign must’ve prompted a lot of newcomers to dive in.
World seeing this huge player spike goes to show how players view Wilds as a follow-up to Monster Hunter World, and not Monster Hunter Rise. With what looks like a huge, sprawling map and photorealistic graphics, Wilds looks like it’s taking after World in the huge MMO-like approach to the Monster Hunter franchise.
In fact, some sleuths thinkMonster Hunter Wilds might be the first fully open-world game in the series. This would be an absolutely monumental undertaking for Capcom’s developers, as anyone who’s played the series before will know, but there’s still a lot of hope out there among fans that this game could be different in that regard.
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