For the quickest way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updated on all your gaming news.
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Want to add more newsletters?
Join the club
Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards.
An account already exists for this email address, please log in.
Subscribe to our newsletter
Update #2: Well, folks, it seems the sky's the limit for Monster Hunter Wilds. It's now crossed over 1.3 million peak concurrent players on Steam, beating out the likes of Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, and most recently Dota 2 on the Steam charts, again according to SteamDB. It's close to beating Lost Ark and claiming a top-five spot, but with 736,445 concurrent players at the time of writing, it's gonna take a big weekend wave to do it.
Update #1: Not long after we originally posted this story, Monster Hunter Wilds accumulated even more players on Steam, and has become the eighth game on the platform (ever) to reach 1 million concurrent players. At the time of writing, its latest peak (from minutes ago) was 1,133,679, which comfortably triples Monster Hunter: World's all-time peak, and pushes Wilds up to seventh in SteamDB's all-time concurrent player chart. It's also the first Capcom game to pass 1 million simultaneous Steam players.
Original story: Monster Hunter Wilds has had a phenomenal debut on Steam, hitting a concurrent player peak of almost 1 million and breaking into the top 10 all-time player peaks in its first hour.
Article continues below
Capcom's new action RPG finally released today, and on PC, it immediately opened its doors to 880,806 players, according to data from SteamDB. That quickly spiked even higher, with the game hitting 987,482 concurrent players within the hour. For comparison, Monster Hunter: World's all-time Steam peak was 334,684 at launch, so Wilds has nearly tripled that.
This is already impressive, but it's even more wild (if you'll excuse the pun) when you consider what time of day this was. The peak was at 6am UTC, which is 10pm PT or 1am ET. I can't blame any Monster Hunter fans for diving in as soon as possible, but it seems very likely that the peak is going to go even higher this weekend when fewer players have work-shaped responsibilities to get up for.
Looking at SteamDB's all-time concurrent player chart, Monster Hunter Wilds is currently eighth in the ranking, below the likes of Cyberpunk 2077, Dota 2, Palworld, and Black Myth: Wukong, but surpassing Elden Ring, which has now been pushed into ninth place. Again, Monster Hunter Wilds' place is probably subject to change over the next couple of days, so we'll just have to watch this space to see if it can climb even higher.
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more
If you were on the fence at all, we were full of praise for the action RPG in our Monster Hunter Wilds review. We said it has "the best combat and narrative in a 20-year series," making it "the new peak of Monster Hunter."
I'm GamesRadar+'s Deputy News Editor, working alongside the rest of the news team to deliver cool gaming stories that we love. After spending more hours than I can count filling The University of Sheffield's student newspaper with Pokemon and indie game content, and picking up a degree in Journalism Studies, I started my career at GAMINGbible where I worked as a journalist for over a year and a half. I then became TechRadar Gaming's news writer, where I sourced stories and wrote about all sorts of intriguing topics. In my spare time, you're sure to find me on my Nintendo Switch or PS5 playing through story-driven RPGs like Xenoblade Chronicles and Persona 5 Royal, nuzlocking old Pokemon games, or going for a Victory Royale in Fortnite.
Join The Community
