It
looks
like
Capcom’s
latest
entry
in
the
wildly
popular
Monster
Hunter
franchise
is
already
gunning
to
be
one
of
the
biggest
releases
of
the
year,
drawing
in
record
numbers
on

Steam.

As
I
write
this,
Monster
Hunter:
Wilds
has
just
peaked
a
staggering

1,065,140
concurrent
players
on
Steam,
and
that
number
is
still
rising.
It
will
likely
grow
even
larger
as
we
enter
the
weekend
proper
and
more
people
get
a
chance
to
play.

To
put
that
into
some
perspective,

that’s
enough
to
make
Monster
Hunter:
Wilds
the
7th
biggest
game
on
Steam
in
terms
of
concurrent
players,
beating
Cyberpunk
2077
which
has
been
relegated
to
8th.
Next
up
is
DOTA2
at
1,295,114.

Top
of
the
leaderboard
is
still
PubG
at
3.2
million,
followed
by

Black
Myth:
Wukong
at
2.4
million
and
Palworld
at
2.1
million.

As
for
the
other
Monster
Hunter
games,
Monster
Hunter:
World
(2018)
was
the
last
mainline
entry
in
the
series
and
peaked
at

334,684,
while
Monster
Hunter:
Rise
(2023)
hit

334,684.

Of
course,
it
goes
without
saying
that
concurrent
player
counts
do
not
directly
equate
to
sales
numbers.
However,
they
are
a
fairly
decent
indicator
of
how
popular
a
game
is
and
Monster
Hunter:
World’s
million
plus
players
show
that
at
least
1
million
people
have
bought
the
game
on
Steam
so
far.
On
top
of
that,
there’s
the
Xbox
and
PlayStation
versions
to
account
for,
boosting
the
numbers
even
higher.

Unfortunately,
there
is
some
bad
news
as
well
as
the
game

has
launched
to
a
“mixed”
rating
on
Steam,
currently
based
on
over
6,000
reviews.
Almost
all
of
the
reviews
are
praising
the
gameplay,
but
the
biggest
issue
appears
to
be
optimisation
with
a
lot
of
negative
reviews
citing
how
badly
the
game
is
running.
Interestingly,
many
of
them
note
that
the
game
ran
fine
for
them
during
the
beta
and
when
using
the
seperate
benchmarking
tool.

As
one
user
named
Sgt.
Walker
Rhymes
says:
“very
immersive
game.
you
can
cook
a
well-done
steak
on
your
GPU
while
you
play
and
the
hot
blasts
of
air
from
your
PC
fans
truly
make
you
feel
like
you
are
in
the
desert.
keep
a
bag
of
sand
by
your
desk
and
periodically
toss
handfuls
of
it
into
the
air
to
really
complete
the
experience”