Current version:PlayStation 5
Wild Hearts

Wild Hearts

Wild Hearts is a PlayStation 5 adventure game developed by Koei Tecmo Games. It centers on area and route exploration, character and object interaction, and objective or clue progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.

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7.9 / 10
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About this game

Wild Hearts is a PlayStation 5 adventure game centered on area and route exploration, character and object interaction, and objective or clue progression. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, 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. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences 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.

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7.9 / 10PlayStation 5

Inventive hunt construction outshines late repetition and hitches.

Wild Hearts earns its identity by making a hunt depend on more than a weapon and a dodge. Celestial thread becomes springs, traps or enormous hammers during a monster’s attack, while constructed routes can make later journeys through the wilderness easier. Creatures fused with nature are memorable, and learning a pattern before answering it with the right Karakuri gives victories a satisfying logic. The later structure is less assured. Larger or elemental versions of familiar targets recur, difficulty climbs abruptly, and the final hunt offers less mechanical payoff than several earlier battles. The contemporary PS5 review also observed frame drops when three players built many structures in cooperative combat. It is a strong choice for hunters who enjoy studying action and improvising with the environment, provided they tolerate repeated material gathering. This historical base-game judgment does not claim later patches or current online conditions have been retested.

Strengths

  • Karakuri changes both attack opportunities and wilderness routes.

Weaknesses

  • Late variants repeat and busy cooperative hunts can hitch.

Who it is for: Hunters keen to learn monsters, weapons and live construction.

Play notes: Historical 2023 PS5 base-game test; later patch effects are unverified.

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Late variants and a steep difficulty turn weaken pacing.

Reviewed7.1 / 10Not provided
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Karakuri makes construction a live combat and traversal decision.

Reviewed8.8 / 10Not provided
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Nature-infused creatures make new hunts compelling to discover.

Reviewed8.2 / 10Not provided
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The tested PS5 co-op building can cause frame drops.

Reviewed6.7 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Release date
Feb 17, 2023
Platforms
PlayStation 5
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Online maximum players
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Tags
InvestigationExplorationFantasySolo-friendly3D GraphicsStory-drivenLinear LevelsThird PersonPuzzle SolvingWarSlow BurnMain Story 10–20 Hours
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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Age ratings
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Play modes
Co-opMultiplayerSingle player
Perspectives
Third person

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