Is Monster Hunter Wilds worth buying in 2026?
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No — Monster Hunter Wilds is not worth buying in 2026, painful as that is to write about this series. The hunting underneath is real Monster Hunter, but the game’s overall Steam rating is Mixed, and the complaint behind that label is consistent: PC performance, not the monsters. Monster Hunter: World with Iceborne is the finished version of the same fantasy.
Mixed — 49% positive across 328,223 Steam reviews · Released 2025
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The case
Monster Hunter Wilds is our Monster Hunter: World guide’s own named skip, and the reason is not the design. The weapons, the ecology and the hunt loop are the real thing — it is the PC build that fails: the overall Steam rating is Mixed, and the reviews behind that label are overwhelmingly about frame rates and stutter rather than about the game.
Patches for Monster Hunter Wilds have shipped and more will; a series this large does not get abandoned. But you buy the build that exists on the day you pay, and our rule is the same one we apply to Starfield: a fix that may come is not a reason to pay now. When the overall rating on Steam moves out of Mixed, this verdict is the first thing that changes.
The awkward truth for Monster Hunter Wilds is that its own predecessor is the alternative. Monster Hunter: World with Iceborne has the same loop, a finished expansion and a Very Positive Steam rating, and Monster Hunter Rise covers the faster, more acrobatic side of the series. Neither asks you to wait for a patch.
Buy it anyway if
- Your PC is well above the recommended spec and you have confirmed on your own hardware that it runs acceptably
- You have finished World and Rise, want new monsters now, and accept a rough build as the price of that
Skip it if
- You are on mid-range or older hardware — performance is the whole complaint
- You have not played Monster Hunter: World yet — the finished game is right there
- You expect launch-quality polish from a series this big; the Steam rating says this build is not that
FAQ
Has Monster Hunter Wilds been fixed since launch?
Updates have shipped, but the overall Steam rating is still Mixed at the time of this build. That label is the crowd’s lifetime verdict, not a launch-week snapshot. We do not track how the newest reviews lean; we check the overall rating on every build and this page updates from it.
Should I buy Monster Hunter: World instead of Wilds?
Yes, if you have not played it. World with Iceborne is the finished version of the same hunt loop and the whole reason our guide exists; Wilds adds new monsters on top of a build the crowd rates Mixed, not a better core.
Would a sale change this Monster Hunter Wilds verdict?
Only the performance changes it. A cheap ticket to a game that stutters is still a game that stutters; when the overall rating leaves Mixed, the verdict flips whatever the price is.
What to play instead
Want the hunt without waiting for patches? Our Monster Hunter: World guide ranks the games that deliver it today — Rise, Nioh 2, Deep Rock Galactic and more — and names Wilds as the skip.