CapcomRecent reviews for Monster Hunter Wilds have plummeted all the way down to Overwhelmingly Negative, with overall reviews sinking to Mixed. Though it had a great launch critically, players who have sunk in hundreds of hours aren’t happy with the game’s current state. It’s at the point people are just going back to Monster Hunter World.
With a metacritic score of 88, Wilds is one of the biggest critical hits of the year and immediately became Capcom’s fastest-selling game ever. It’s only a few points behind big hitters like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Blue Prince. But Steam reviews are a stark contrast.
Reviews are filled with people claiming that Wilds is much worse than prior entries like World and Rise, saying that the endgame lacks the same staying power as prior entries.
This, combined with performance issues that have only gotten worse in comparison to an already rocky launch, has landed Monster Hunter Wilds a much lower Steam rating than it had a few months ago.
Monster Hunter Wilds reviews experience a massive downturn
In Monster Hunter games, credits rolling on the main story is typically just the beginning. Getting to High Rank hunts and crafting the game’s best armor is what keeps players hooked for hundreds of hours.
However, those who are in the endgame claim that it’s way too easy, with fights being much shorter than prior entries. People looking for an endgame challenge don’t have much to look forward to going by reviews.
“As much as I love Monster Hunter, I cannot defend this game in any way shape or form. It runs terribly on PC, the game is ugly as hell compared to what MH World had to offer, the fights are underwhelming for what MH usually has (but I do hope that can be improved with a DLC),” said one Steam user.
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“Monster Hunter Milds. Way too short, too easy, too streamlined, too expensive, and runs like trash,” said another.
One user even claimed that they haven’t been able to make the game run for almost a month on their PC, with them being blocked out from the game entirely after an update in late May.
Capcom“As of 5/28/2025, after 250+ hours of gameplay, the game will no longer boot up. I’ve tried re-installing, deleting shader caches, uninstalling REframework (which is basically needed to run the game smoothly at all), rolling back my NVIDIA drivers, re-installing again, restarting my PC a dozen times, nothing works,” they claimed.
With performance getting even worse since launch according to some users and people being unhappy with the general gameplay loop, many longtime fans of the series are recommending new players try old entries even after they’ve put 100, 200, 300+ hours into Wilds.
And, while many of these diehard fans are willing to wait for updates to try and add more engaging endgame content and improve performance, they’re keeping their reviews negative until Capcom makes some changes. Or they’ll just end up playing a different game.
Monster Hunter World is consistently more popular than Wilds
Though Monster Hunter Wilds holds the crown for highest peak player count in the MH series, retention has been staggeringly low. Fans of the series have shown which game they prefer, with many players opting to just stick with World instead despite the game being almost a decade old.
At the time of writing, World has a 24 hour peak of 26k players, while Wilds only has 18k. While this is a testament to how well World holds up as the game that really brought the MH series into the limelight as one of gaming’s biggest franchises, it also doesn’t exactly bode well that people want to go back and grind that rather than play the shiny new game.
That said, years of content updates have been kind to World, with it having significantly more monsters on its roster to hunt than Wilds. Fans are still holding out hope that consistent content updates and some work on optimization can bring the series’ newest entry into a better spot.