MONSTER HUNTER RISE

MONSTER HUNTER RISE

Fair · Action · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 6 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$39.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$7.9980% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$1.71/hr
Reviews▼
84% of 128,648
Critics
86 players 2 lower
Genre rank
Top 4% Action

Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour

Watch this gameOne alert at $7.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
23.4h
To 100%
186.9h 8.0x the story
Achievements
100

Price and sales

Sales
36 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$3.99 October 2026
Sale every
43d last October 2026
Lowest now $6.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $3.40 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
3,745 now
Recent reviews
89% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
89% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

87% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

36 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Monster Hunter: World ($29.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons of Sundaria ($9.99, scores 42).

More about MONSTER HUNTER RISE

8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 2,549 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 23.4 hours. Doing everything runs 187, 8.0 times as long.

128,648 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Replayability~140h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 23h main story
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.71/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMThird-party DRM
Third-party copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds8 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Ignore the five billion UI elements, tutorials, cutscenes, and game mechanics and get to the part where you are executing high damage combos in between perfectly spaced dodges and it will become very obvious why this is the best selling Capcom franchise. Rise, unlike World and Wilds, is in the style of the older Monster Hunter games which don't try to integrate the story within the missions. This game gets out of...
trevRecommendedafter 9.1h21 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
In case you're wondering whether to get Rise or World, both games are pretty good, but I'm leaning more towards World. Combat is great in both games, but World's combat is slower and simpler and feels less clunky compared to Rise's. Also the multiplayer is horrible if you want to play with randoms. I think this game greatly benefits from the Sunbreak expansion and I don't recommend it without it. Overall it's not a...
ShogliRecommendedafter 71h22 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Rise to the challenge and join the hunt! In Monster Hunter Rise, the latest installment in the award-winning and top-selling Monster Hunter series, you’ll become a hunter, explore brand new maps and use a variety of weapons to take down fearsome monsters as part of an all-new storyline.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (DDR4) or AMD Radeon RX 550, 36 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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MONSTER HUNTER RISE scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1446780/monster-hunter-rise
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-2
Critics86
Players84
Metacritic critics · 128,648 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperCAPCOM Co., Ltd.
PublisherCAPCOM Co., Ltd.
GenreAction
Released2022
Players7.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements100