Monster Hunter Wilds is going through a tough time right now. The premiere 2025 title from Capcom has seen recent user reviews on Steam decline into the “overwhelmingly negative” range, and more players are currently playing an older game from the series, Monster Hunter World.

Monster Hunter World is currently hosting over 16,000 concurrent players. Wilds, in comparison, has around 10,000 concurrent players right now. World has been pulling in a peak of at least 25,000 players each day this week while Wilds has not broken the 23,000 player mark in that same period. Fans of the series are going back to World after being disappointed by the endgame content and performance issues in Wilds.

Players have been sounding off about Monster Hunter Wilds’ performance issues and other problems via Steam’s review system. Many of the reviews cite frame rate issues, an unsatisfactory story, not enough endgame content, and a few go as far to say the game will no longer start on their computers.

Capcom brought new content to Monster Hunter World for two years after it was released. While it did have some performance issues, players never criticized the game as harshly on Steam. Monster Hunter Wilds is scheduled to be part of the Capcom Spotlight showcase stream next week where the publisher will show off an upcoming update. Players are hoping for some big additions to endgame content and upgrades to how the game runs on PC.

“Capcom understands the value of throwing you into one climactic battle after another in what would be a set-piece boss fight in almost any other game,” Richard Wakeling wrote in GameSpots Monster Hunter Wilds review at the beginning of 2024. “Monster Hunter Wilds suffers from some performance issues, the environments are often bland, and the story feels superfluous, but when you’re face-to-face with a fearsome monster, few situations are quite as riveting. Monster Hunter Wilds may only make iterative improvements to further refine the formula, but that’s all it really needed to do.”