Monster Hunter Wilds Steam Charts Breaks Document Hours After PC Launch

Monster Hunter Wilds is already breaking Steam chart data mere hours after its PC launch. 

The Capcom-developed monster-hunting RPG franchise is again, bringing with it a complete swath of each new and returning hulking creatures for gamers to pursue within the wild. 

In early goings, Wilds faired splendidly with critics, incomes a stellar 89% on OpenCritic and being praised for its sprawling open-world, colourful catalog of monsters to hunt, and stage of accessibility in a sequence that has historically had a fairly steep studying curve. 

Monster Hunter Wilds Makes Steam Historical past

In its first few hours on PC, Monster Hunter Wilds already put its stamp within the Steam chart report books. 

Capcom’s newest entry in its long-running monster-hunting franchise climbed to sixth place on the Steam chart for all-time peak concurrent gamers (by way of SteamDB)

Wilds peaked simply hours after its PC launch at 1.31 million concurrent gamers on Steam, making it the largest Monster Hunter PC launch ever and doing sufficient to supplant hit titles like Dota 2, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077. 

Whereas that 1.3 million concurrent quantity is spectacular, the sport’s story could not but have been absolutely written. It’s nonetheless fairly early in Wilds‘ life, and there’s a probability that in its launch weekend (and within the days following), it climbs even larger on the chart. 

For comparability, the final main PC title within the franchise, Monster Hunter World  (which got here to Steam a number of months after its early 2018 console launch), solely ever reached a peak concurrent participant depend of simply over 334,000. 

And that got here regardless of wonderful DLC that got here to the final recreation, together with loads of ultra-viral skins just like the Monster Hunter film tie-in Mila Jovovich costume. 

The following closest challenger Wilds has on the all-time concurrent checklist is Amazon Video games’ MMORPG Misplaced Ark, which peaked at 1.33 million concurrent gamers in February 2022. 

With solely a distinction between the numbers of roughly 180,000, there’s a actual probability Monster Hunter Wilds leap-frogs that title and claims the number-five spot for itself within the coming days (or possibly even hours).

For it to get any larger than that, one thing miraculous would want to occur, although. 

The following highest peak concurrent is Counter-Strike 2 with over 1.8 million, which means almost 500,000 extra Steam gamers would want to hop on all concurrently properly as sufficient to succeed in that 1.3 million concurrent determine that acquired Wilds as excessive on the checklist because it at present is. 

Beneath is the total top-10 of the all-time peak concurrent gamers Steam charts:

1.  PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (3.26 million)
2. Black Fantasy: Wukong (2.42 million)
3. Palworld (2.10 million)
4. Counter-Strike 2 (1.81 million)
5. Misplaced Ark (1.33 million)
6. Monster Hunter Wilds (1.31 million)
7. Dota 2 (1.30 million)
8. Cyberpunk 2077 (1.05 million)
9. Elden Ring (953,426)
10. Banana (917,272)

Monster Hunter Wilds is now obtainable on PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC. 

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