Monster Hunter Rise

Monster Hunter Rise is an adventure game developed by Capcom Development Division 2 and released in 2021. It was published by Capcom. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RE Engine.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 100 achievements to unlock.

Monster Hunter Rise is the 43rd of 62 entries we hold in the Monster Hunter series. The next entry was Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin in 2021. Its critic score of 88 is 4 points above the series average of 84. The highest-rated entry is Monster Hunter: World at 93.

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Monster Hunter Rise holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 138 votes.

The main story runs about 59.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 100 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $3.82, that works out to about $0.06 per hour of the main story, or $0.04 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i3-4130 or Core™ i5-3470 or AMD FX™-6100, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 1030 (DDR4) or AMD Radeon™ RX 550. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 36GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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The cheapest verified price right now is $3.82 at Gamesplanet, 90% below its usual price.

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Monster Hunter Rise launched on 26 March 2021, within three weeks of It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut and Outriders. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, Outriders.

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