Monster Hunter Stories
Worth it · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 33.4h
- Value
- $0.90/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 34% ($19.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 67% ($9.89)
- Last discount ended
- 11 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIAGeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 560, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Monster Hunter Stories is an RPG that takes the world of Monster Hunter and expands upon it in new and exciting ways! No longer are you hunting monsters, but raising them! In this deep story featuring heroes known as Monster Riders, you will live alongside monsters and form lifelong bonds with them.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.89. That was December 2025. 17 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 34 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ($49.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin ($39.99, scores 58).
This site sampled 451 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
33.4 hours to finish it, 87 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
86% start to 3% 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
What players say
Mediocre port of a Good Game. That sums it up. Monster Hunter Stories... for the most part.... is a fun game. There is one major problem with it though: Ratha . The mandatory Rathalos. a.k.a. "Lilia's Pet" or "Trasha" . You can play most of the game building up your own special team of monsters, making them stronger, collecting genes to empower them, building up their kinship and generally having a fun old time with...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Monster Hunter Stories scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2356560/monster-hunter-storiesReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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