I remember a time when the only place I saw Monster Hunter games was the 3DS eShop. Those days are well and truly [[link]] over, because the eShop is fully defunct and is effortlessly pulling in over 400,000 players a day on Steam alone, according to and .
To give you a sense of scale, Circana’s executive director Mat Piscatella took to and reported that Monster Hunter Wilds—February’s best selling game across each platform it’s on—got more than half its total sales from Steam. These launch numbers are double what Monster Hunter Rise pulled off back when it was a Switch exclusive, according to the same report, which called Monster Hunter Wilds the best-selling game of 2025 so far.
It signifies an impressive metamorphosis for the Monster Hunter series, which slowly but surely went from a niche hardcore RPG to a , but also one for Capcom, which to redouble its efforts to captivate PC audiences nearly four years ago. Around that time, Capcom’s COO said half of its sales ought to be on PC by 2023 or so, and it’s not just Monster Hunter players who were eager to take them up on that.
In fact, Capcom’s 2024 integrated report specifically their PC-minded efforts, saying that they had indeed hit that benchmark: "the PC version accounts for nearly 50% of our software sales, but our analysis shows that there is still room for growth." With this multiplatform-oriented strategy and Capcom circling back to port games like the original Monster Hunter Stories, I can’t help but wonder if Monster Hunter’s on-and-off history of console exclusivity is completely behind it. More than merely expanding its reach, Monster Hunter has become one of Capcom’s flagships, and of the biggest games on PC.
This is all despite the fact that Wilds’ numerous performance hitches, bugs, and crashes have dragged [[link]] the game down to a user rating on Steam, though it being fantastic might have something to with that; Lincoln Carpenter "an action game in a class without contenders." As patches continue to roll in, drivers update, and hardware improves, whatever critiques you can levy at Monster Hunter Wilds aren’t likely to slow it down.
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