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- Monster Hunter Wilds release window is 2025. We have no fixed date other than this information.
Thanks to new trailers shown during the Summer Game Fest, we now know the Monster Hunter Wilds release window, and, while it is a long way off, the gameplay we’ve seen is enough to pique interest. To say there is some buzz around Capcom’s follow-up to Monster Hunter World, the company’s best-selling game of all time, is the understatement of the century.
When is the Monster Hunter Wilds release window?
Monster Hunter Wilds has been given a release window of 2025. Capcom has confirmed this during the PlayStation’s State of Play broadcast and with another trailer at the Summer Game Fest. Both of these trailers feature gameplay, giving us our biggest look at the next game. We’ve seen our Hunter ride a trusty mount and face off against plenty of new monsters.
Monster Hunter Wilds story details
Alongside trailers, we’ve had plenty of juicy info drops from Capcom during the State of Play and Summer Game Fest events. Monster Hunter Wilds was revealed in December 2023 and showed us a tiny glimpse of what we can expect. Now we’ve seen more and know that our Hunter is part of the Research Commission who has been sent to the Forbidden Lands, which has gone unplumbed by the Guild until now. You are joined by Alma, who is your Handler, Gemma the blacksmith, and Nata, a mysterious young boy who will play a key role in the game’s story.
As with most Monster Hunter games, your created character is sent to figure out why something might be happening in a certain area. In World, it was about the Elder Dragon Crossing and in Rise it was all about figuring out why some monsters had gone crazy due to the Rampage. Wilds will probably follow the same format, and the Forbidden Lands seems as good a place as any to delve into.
Monster Hunter Wilds gameplay information
Monster Hunter Wilds is a third-person action game featuring melee and ranged combat. You have access to 14 weapon types, which are the iconic weapons we know and love from the series over the years: the Great Sword, Long Sword, Sword & Shield, Dual Blades, Hammer, Hunting Horn, Lance, Gunlance, Switch Axe, Charge Blade, Insect Glaive, Light Bowgun, Heavy Bowgun, and Bow. Better yet, you can bring two weapons with you on the Hunt to switch things up on the fly.
Alongside the returning weapons, we have new abilities and attacks to pull off against our fearsome foes. We don’t know the full details yet, but we’ve seen the Greatsword in action, along with the Light Bowgun. Focus mode gives you control over guarding, aiming, and attacking to better strike a weak point on the monster. Within Focus Mode, it seems there are new defensive and offensive abilities to learn and master.
Since the world of Wilds is so large, with only one Locale being shown so far, our Hunters have been given a mount in the form of Seikret. This monster can be ridden by your Hunter and they will track things for you. Effectively, they seem to work similarly to how Scout Flies functioned in World.
Typically, Monster Hunter games focus on being in a town or village hub where you grab a quest and transition into the chosen Locale to hunt or capture your quarry. We don’t know exactly how it will work in Wilds, whether it’s a fully open-world game or if it will function the same way as previous titles. There is plenty of reason to believe that the Locales will be seamlessly explorable, but we don’t know how this looks as of yet.
Monster Hunter Wilds trailers
As mentioned, we’ve seen a total of three trailers for Monster Hunter Wilds. The first trailer was revealed during The Game Awards in December 2023. Other than a brief cinematic, we didn’t see much in regards to gameplay. We got our first look at one Locale and the Seikret mount, and some new monsters we can expect to meet.
The second trailer was shown during the State of Play broadcast by Sony in May 2024. This trailer was much longer and gave us our first proper look at gameplay, characters, and our lovable Palico. For whatever reason only known to Capcom HQ, your Palico can now speak human languages, which is… interesting. We also saw Alma the new Handler, Gemma the Guild Smithy, and Nata. This trailer showed us new monsters roaming as packs, the Windward Plains locales, and the new Doshaguma and Chatacabra monsters.
The third and most recent trailer was revealed during the Summer Game Fest in June 2024, along with an interview with Ryozo Tsujimoto announcing that Wilds will launch on PS5, Xbox, and PC and support cross-play between all platforms. The gameplay trailer gave us a look at what might be this game’s Flagship Monster, seemingly capable of firing lightning out of its head. Looking forward, the next time we’ll see Wilds is at Gamescom in August 2024.
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