Monster Hunter: World

Monster Hunter: World is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on MT Framework.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer for up to 16 players online, and includes co-op. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 100 achievements to unlock.

Monster Hunter: World is the 33rd of 62 entries we hold in the Monster Hunter series. The next entry was Monster Hunter: World - Collector's Edition in 2018. Its critic score of 93 is 9 points above the series average of 84. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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Monster Hunter: World holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 24 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 596 votes.

The main story runs about 197.5 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $7.26, that works out to about $0.04 per hour of the main story, or $0.06 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5 4460 or Core™ i3 9100F or AMD FX™-6300 or Ryzen™ 3 3200G, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA®GeForce®GTX 760 or GTX1050 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x or RX 560. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 52GB. 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 $7.26 at Gamesplanet, 76% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Japan is the cheapest region we track at ¥2,990 (about $18.89), while Canada pays CA$49.99 — 1.9 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 24 on Steam, which is about $23.99.

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Monster Hunter: World launched on 26 January 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus and Shadow of the Colossus (2018). It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018).

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