The Game Awards is typically an event that is not just for the awards. In fact, you can easily argue that this event throws the actual award ceremony on the back burner. Instead, it’s an event highlighting some games coming our way further. We’ve seen several new game reveals at these events, and last year’s ceremony was no different. We got our first look at the next mainline installment of the Monster Hunter franchise, Monster Hunter Wilds.
Monster Hunter Wilds hype fuels Monster Hunter World to its highest Steam player count in 3 years
19.12.2023 - 11:28 / gamesradar.com
Monster Hunter World has seen a giant player spike on Steam following Capcom's campaign to revive the game's online scene.
Last week, we reported on Capcom's new campaign for Monster Hunter World. Dubbed '#ReturnToWorld,' the initiative beckoned players back to the 2018 game in an attempt to revive the online scene, and basically give fans something to do until Monster Hunter Wilds rolls around in 2025.
The campaign looks to have been a massive success. According to SteamDB, Monster Hunter World is enjoying its highest player count on PC since October 2020, with 94,680 players marking the game's highest peak within the last 24 hours across the PC platform.
It's not just old players that are apparently flowing back to World on Steam. Steam has Monster Hunter World in its top-sellers chart at the time of writing, which means the huge 67% discount Capcom put on Steam for the #ReturnToWorld campaign must've prompted a lot of newcomers to dive in.
World seeing this huge player spike goes to show how players view Wilds as a follow-up to Monster Hunter World, and not Monster Hunter Rise. With what looks like a huge, sprawling map and photorealistic graphics, Wilds looks like it's taking after World in the huge MMO-like approach to the Monster Hunter franchise.
In fact, some sleuths think Monster Hunter Wilds might be the first fully open-world game in the series. This would be an absolutely monumental undertaking for Capcom's developers, as anyone who's played the series before will know, but there's still a lot of hope out there among fans that this game could be different in that regard.
Head over to our new games 2023 guide for a look ahead at all the new titles set to launch next year before Wilds releases.
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