Monster Hunter Rise
Monster Hunter Rise is a PC role-playing game developed by CAPCOM CO., LTD.. It centers on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.8 / 10
About this game
Monster Hunter Rise is a PC role-playing game centered on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in topics
Local co-op picks
Work together on the same screen or console, sharing objectives, decisions and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges.
Category: Occasion
Collected in series
Monster Hunter is Capcom’s franchise about encounters with extraordinary creatures. Its action games turn preparation, well-timed attacks and gathered materials into successful hunts and new equipment, while the Stories spin-offs explore companionship with monsters through turn-based adventures.
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AI review
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Mobility makes deep hunting more immediate.
Wirebugs link movement, recovery and weapon skills into a flexible combat loop. Palamutes keep pursuit moving, while weapon complexity ensures that accessibility does not remove the rewards of deliberate practice. Village quests introduce the systems before tougher hunts demand better preparation. Clearer progression supports experimentation, although the defensive Rampage format is a less consistently compelling diversion from the central hunts. Folklore-inspired creatures and themed music give the hunts a memorable identity. Simpler scenery and textures do not erase the value of readable monsters, distinct attacks and a coherent sense of place. The GTX 1070 test ran smoothly with occasional tearing and useful graphics options. That supports the tested configuration specifically, rather than guaranteeing identical behavior across every Windows machine.
Strengths
- Wirebugs broaden weapon decisions.
Weaknesses
- Rampages are a less compelling diversion.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy learning weapons and mastering repeat hunts.
Play notes: Based on the dated target-platform build; later patches and expansions are not automatically included.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Village quests introduce the systems before tougher hunts demand better preparation. Clearer progression supports experimentation, although the defensive Rampage format is a less consistently compelling diversion from the central hunts. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Wirebugs link movement, recovery and weapon skills into a flexible combat loop. Palamutes keep pursuit moving, while weapon complexity ensures that accessibility does not remove the rewards of deliberate practice. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Folklore-inspired creatures and themed music give the hunts a memorable identity. Simpler scenery and textures do not erase the value of readable monsters, distinct attacks and a coherent sense of place. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The GTX 1070 test ran smoothly with occasional tearing and useful graphics options. That supports the tested configuration specifically, rather than guaranteeing identical behavior across every Windows machine. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- CAPCOM
- Publisher
- CAPCOM
- Release date
- Jan 12, 2022
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genre
- Tags
- Solo-friendlyFantasyMain Story 20–50 HoursStory-driven3D GraphicsExplorationThird PersonLevel ProgressionTurn-based CombatLong-term Progression
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwideJan 12, 2022
- PlayStation 5WorldwideJan 20, 2023
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideMar 26, 2021
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Sources
- news.capcomusa.com