Capcom announces its next big Monster Hunter game, coming in 2025

There's a brand new Monster Hunter game coming. Capcom revealed Monster Hunter Wilds on Thursday during The Game Awards 2023, where the successor to the immensely popular game of 2018 will be shown Monster Hunter: World.

Monster Hunter Wilds coming to PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X sometime in 2025, according to the game's first trailer. Longtime Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto said Monster Hunter fans can expect more information in summer 2024. separate videoTsujimoto said that Monster Hunter Wilds will feature “a new level of detailed creatures and ecosystems,” hinting that the game's reveal trailer will include other hidden details.

Wilderness appears to be a fully open-world evolution of the Monster Hunter franchise, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2024. The first game in the franchise, Monster Hunter for Sony's PlayStation 2, was released in 2004. The series' popularity exploded with subsequent releases, Monster Hunter G And Monster Hunter portableresulting in Capcom developing more than twenty sequels, expansions and spin-offs.

Monster Hunter: World became the best-selling game in the franchise and Capcom's best-selling game everwith over 19 million copies sold. World'S Worn ice expansion, released in 2019, sold more than 10 million copies. The most recent mainline game in the franchise, Monster Hunter: Get up, has sold 13.6 million copies. Capcom and Pokémon Go developer Niantic recently released a mobile spin-off game, Monster hunter now.