Monster Hunter Wilds

Capcom

Available on

PS5

Release date: 02/28/2025

PS Plus required for online play
In-game purchases optional
Supports up to 4 online players with PS Plus
Online play optional
1 player
PS5 Version
Vibration function and trigger effect supported (DualSense wireless controller)
Game Help supported

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Cosmetic DLC Pack 1
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Premium Bonus

What is Monster Hunter Wilds?

Experience the most evolved and immersive Monster Hunter game yet.

Prepare to explore a wild and unrelenting new frontier featuring dynamic, ever-changing environments.

Monster Hunter Wilds is a story of monsters and humans co-existing in the Forbidden Lands, a world with two faces: one in which the lands are harsh and unforgiving, where monsters fight for scant resources, and another in which the lands are vibrant and brimming with life.

Play as a professional monster hunter assigned to the Forbidden Lands Research Commission, tasked with protecting the balance of the ecosystem and hunting monsters. Use the resources you gain from hunts to craft ever more powerful weapons and armor in your quest to unravel the mysteries of the new lands.

Monster Hunter Wilds mechanics

New ways to explore and hunt

Discover the new mechanics and techniques that expand your travel and combat options in the Forbidden Lands.

Seikret

The Seikret is an animal mount with exceptional agility and a keen sense of smell. It can guide you to your next objective or waypoint and allows you to heal up, sharpen your weapons and gather materials as you travel there. Vitally, it can also hold a second weapon in its weapon sling, allowing you to switch between armaments during a hunt.

Focus Mode

A new way to aim your attacks and guards with more precision, allowing you to direct actions in the same direction as the camera. Focus Mode also highlights any wounds created by repeatedly attacking certain body parts, as well as any weak points the monster has left exposed.

Focus Strikes

While in Focus Mode, your Hunter can perform special Focus Strikes that will cause extra damage to highlighted wounds and weak points.

Power Clash

Block certain attacks will trigger a struggle between your Hunter and the monster. Successfully pushing the monster back will knock it off balance, giving you an opening to attack.

Offset Attacks

Hitting a monster with certain attacks as it is attacking will cause the attacks to clash, knocking the monster off balance.You canuse this opportunity to follow upwith powerful unique attacks.

Slinger

This wrist-mounted projectile launcher fires various types of ammo that can be gathered in the hunting locales. Additionally, the Hook Slinger lets you gather items from a distance and trigger environmental actions whether on foot or riding your Seikret.

Monster Hunter Wilds weapons

How will you hunt?

Monster Hunter Wilds offers 14 different weapons to suit a variety of playstyles. Each weapon offers incredible versatility and depth, from the weighty and powerful Great Sword to the swift and acrobatic Insect Glaive.

Great Sword

A weighty weapon with slower movement and attacks, but each blow packs a powerful punch. Suitable for hit-and-run tactics or even guarding, the Great Sword is highly adaptable.

Long Sword

A weapon that excels at swift movements and combos. With a sharp eye and good timing, you can counter incoming attacks. Landing certain attacks will raise the level of the Spirit Gauge—once the Spirit Gauge turns red, some of your attacks will be strengthened.

Sword & Shield

A weapon that boasts maneuverability and rapid attacks. You can use the shield both to guard and to attack. Unlike other weapons, you can still use some items while your weapon is drawn.

Dual Blades

A weapon designed for rapid attacks. Enter Demon Mode to boost the damage of your attacks. If you manage to fill the Demon Gauge by landing enough hits before yours stamina depletes, you will enter Archdemon Mode, which further boosts the damage of some attacks.

Hammer

A blunt weapon with destructive power and good mobility. Charge your attacks to make them more powerful. You can stun monsters by landing multiple hits to their head, which briefly leaves them open to even more attacks.

Hunting Horn

A blunt weapon that can perform buff-granting melodies to you and nearby allies. Perform a variety of combos to trigger different melody effects. You can also place Echo Bubbles that grant special effects within its area.

Lance

A weapon with top-class defence. The lance’s thrusting attacks are quick and safe to execute, while the shield provides great protection from incoming attacks. Combine the two to make effective use of its range of guard-related moves and counters.

Gunlance

A weapon with a long reach and the ability to fire explosive shells. Combine melee attacks with powerful, short-range shell-based blasts. Make tactical use of your shield and sidesteps to get within range, guard against powerful attacks and choose the right moment to strike.

Switch Axe

A multifaceted weapon that can morph between two different modes. Use Axe Mode to perform slower long-reach attacks that keep more distance between you and your target, or switch to Sword Mode for faster, close-range strikes.

Charge Blade

A versatile weapon that can morph between two different modes. Sword Mode allows you to maneuver yourself quickly and accurately, while Axe Mode is designed to inflict massive damage. Attacking in Sword Mode charges up phials that can be used to power up Axe Mode, opening up additional, incredibly powerful attacks.

Insect Glaive

A mobile weapon you use while controlling a creature known as a Kinsect. Deploy the Kinsect to harvest different types of extract from various parts of the monster. Each type of extract provides a buff; harvesting all three will trigger the most powerful buffs. Use the glaive itself to vault into the air and perform jumping attacks at will.

Light Bowgun

A mid-range weapon that can fire various ammo types and offers high mobility, making it great for quick attacks and dodges. Use Rapid Fire energy to fire in quick succession. Energy regenerates over time and when you successfully land hits.

Heavy Bowgun

A long-range weapon that fires ammo from a distance. Features an Auto-Guard function, but you can also guard incoming attacks manually. Expend energy in Ignition Mode to fire special ammo. Energy regenerates over time and when you successfully land hits.

Bow

A mid-range weapon that uses a variety of arrow-based attacks. Charge your arrows to increase their damage. The bow also boasts high mobility. Hitting a monster with a Tracer will cause arrows to home in on it. Tracers will explode after being dealt enough damage or after enough time passes.

Monster Hunter Wilds characters

Never hunt alone

You won’t be alone when exploring the Forbidden Lands. Meet the characters who will join your Hunter, providing them with valuable support as the story—and world—unfolds.

Hunter

The protagonist and the customisable character you play as. A hunter assigned to the Forbidden Lands Research Commission, their job is to help investigate this unexplored region.

Palico

A Felyne—a cat-like creature fully capable of speaking with people—who is the hunter's trusted "Palico" partner. They'll provide invaluable hunting and moral support!

Alma

The hunter's "Handler"—one who manages monster hunt requests, permissions, and quests. She'll accompany you out on quests and provide valuable support and knowledge.

Gemma

A smithy with the Research Commission. She'll take care of all your weapon and armor crafting needs.

Nata

A mysterious young boy that accompanies you on your journey.

Olivia

A hammer-wielding member of the Hunter's Guild Forbidden Lands Expedition Team. She can assist the Hunter as a Support Hunter during quests, filling in an opening in your hunting party whether you’re playing solo or online.

Athos

An elite Long-Haired Palico assisting Olivia.

Fabius

A former hunter distinguished among the Guild. As a leader of the Hunter's Guild, he established the Forbidden Lands Research Commission after discovering Nata and took charge of forming each expedition unit.

Werner

Astrum Unit's Smithy. A physics and engineering specialist, and a leading mind in weapon technology.

Erik

Astrum Unit's Handler. An adroit biologist renowned throughout academia.

Monster Hunter Wilds monsters

Prepare for the hunt

Familiarize yourself with a selection of the monsters that roam the Forbidden Lands, each one of which has developed fascinating and unexpected ways to survive the environment.

Arkveld

A monster known among the commission as the White Wraith, described as having unique chain-like appendages extending from its wings. A species long thought to have been extinct, its ecology remains shrouded in mystery.

Rey Dau

A Flying Wyvern that rules the Windward Plains as its apex predator. Can discharge electricity in powerful attacks, posing a threat to even the most experienced hunters.

Uth Duna

A Leviathan that rules the Scarlet Forest as its apex predator. It has adapted to water-rich environments and is sighted most often during the Downpour. It makes use of the moisture and its own bodily fluids to create a protective veil around itself.

Lala Barina

A Temnoceran that resides in the Scarlet Forest. Its thorax, which can be opened at will, resembles a rose in bloom.

Chatacabra

A large species of amphibians that use the adhesive quality of their saliva to affix stone to their forelimbs to power up their attacks.

Balahara

Desert-dwelling leviathans that use their supple, serpentine bodies to create quicksand traps for unwary prey.

Doshaguma

Rugged, territorial fanged beasts that exhibit an aggressive disposition and inhabit a large range. Sometimes observed in large packs.

Monster Hunter Wilds world

Discover the Forbidden Lands

Prepare to explore a series of diverse, interconnected hunting locales with complex ecosystems and dynamically changing environments.

Fallow

Plenty

Changing environments

Experience two distinct seasons in the massive, ever-changing environments found in the game. Fallow, a period where hungry predators roam the land for food, is followed by an ecology-altering Inclemency, leading to a rich period of Plenty. The same locale may look completely different between the two seasons.

Each environment is inhabited by its own apex predator, which will appear during the area's Inclemency.

Windward Plains

Scarlet Forest

Base Camps

Windward Plains

As a member of the Research Commission charged with investigating the Forbidden Lands, the Windward Plains is the first new hunting locale you'll visit. The Plains are a diverse region filled with sandy deserts, swaying grasslands, twisting rock formations and other natural wonders.

Scarlet Forest

Following the river found in the Windward Plains will lead you to the verdant Scarlet Forest, with its towering trees and abundant water, which is peculiarly dyed a crimson hue. Like the other hunting locales, the Scarlet Forest undergoes periods of Plenty, Inclemency and Fallow that transform the landscape and wildlife residing within it.

Base Camps

Each locale features a base of operations built by the Expedition Team. These camps offer respite from the Forbidden Lands, providing a tent for the hunter and all the facilities required to prepare for your next expedition. Stock up on items and ingredients, and visit the smithy to forge and upgrade your armor and weapons.

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