Monster Hunter Wilds Loses Over 94% of Steam Players

Monster Hunter Wilds saw immense success in the first half of 2025. Capcom even set new sales records, including on Steam. But, even with all that success, people’s interest in the game has significantly waned over the last few months. Back in February, Monster Hunter Wilds had over 1.3 million players concurrently on Steam. That made it one of the highest concurrent player counts the platform had ever seen. Just four months later, though, players largely abandoned the game, and player activity plummeted. For several recent weeks, the game was barely hitting 20,000 concurrent players. But then, Capcom’s newest update sparked a remarkable turnaround. This action-adventure game suddenly attracted an additional 100,000 players on Valve’s PC platform following the release of that patch earlier this week. On June 29th, Monster Hunter Wilds reached a peak of only 19,637 players for the day. But when the game’s huge Free Title Update 2 launched on June 30th, that daily peak surged to 133,033 players. This update introduced two brand-new monsters, and this appears to have reignited player excitement for the game. Still, player counts have been declining every day for the last three days. This suggests that following the initial surge of players checking out the update, player counts are once again rapidly declining. Losing 94% of its players in just four months is staggering, but it’s not unique in experiencing such a decline. If you look at other live-service games, like Marvel Rivals or Fragpunk (both free games from NetEase), you’ll find that player numbers drop just as much. This highlights how fierce the competition is in this type of game.

Games like Apex Legends, PUBG, Fortnite, CS:GO2, and Dota 2 still maintain immense popularity. But other games trying to attract the same player base usually only keep people’s attention for a few weeks or a couple of months. Capcom has said they are committed to continuously improving Monster Hunter Wilds. So, it will be intriguing to observe if the game can actually sustain this renewed surge in popularity. Game Peak activity (number from the last 24 hours)

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