Monster Hunter Wilds
Skip · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 18.1h
- Value
- $2.21/hr
- Reviews
- 49% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 64% over the last 30 days against 49% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660(VRAM 6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT(VRAM 8GB), 75 GB of storage. Windows only.
The unbridled force of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments transforming drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony in a world of duality.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $29.39. It has been discounted 10 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 45 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Dungeons & Dragons Online® (free, scores 28) and Gotham Knights ($59.99, scores 16) both outscore it.
Players rate it 49 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 64 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. 5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 23 percent of the 7,218 reviews written there were positive, against 49 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 18.1 hours. Doing everything runs 115, 6.3 times as long.
329,709 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
95% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
12.5K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Game is still unplayable on AMD GPUs after TU2 update, it just crashes sometimes and you cant do anything about it. Do you want the game to crash and lose out on a hubt that has been going for 40 minutes? No? Then just don't play it. Only solution.
Alright, first off, I'm a big Monster Hunter fan. I started with the first one on the PS2. I loved all the games and most spin-offs so far. It was great. And then Wilds happened and you had to ruin it. Why? Why did you do it, Capcom? Stop ignoring older fans. First off, the game has way too much automation. Yeah you can PRESS A BUTTON to stop the bird, but guess what? The dog in Rise stopped on his own! Why are you...
8/10 performance issues at launch but fun to play, excited for the dlc amount of birds in this game? birds to collect, birds to fight, bird handler, bird ride, bird fit 10/10 yes
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Monster Hunter Wilds scores 1/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2246340/monster-hunter-wildsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 23.
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