Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2024, roars back in 2025 with Monster Hunter Wilds. This prolific series, spanning generations of consoles, achieved new heights with Monster Hunter World (2018) and Monster Hunter Rise (2021), becoming Capcom's top-selling titles.
Launching February 28th, Monster Hunter Wilds prompts a retrospective look at the franchise's key entries, chronologically ordered.
The Monster Hunter Universe:
While over 25 Monster Hunter games exist (including spin-offs, mobile titles, and enhanced versions), this list focuses on the 12 most significant, excluding mobile, arcade, and defunct MMO entries, as well as the Japan-exclusive Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airou Village.
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Starting Your Monster Hunter Journey:
The Monster Hunter series lacks a continuous narrative; choose any entry point. For newcomers in 2025, consider waiting for Monster Hunter Wilds reviews (February 28th release). Otherwise, Monster Hunter World (exploration-focused) or Monster Hunter Rise (speed and fluidity) are excellent starting points.
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Every Monster Hunter Game (Release Order):
Monster Hunter (2004)
Monster Hunter, alongside Auto Modellista and Resident Evil: Outbreak, aimed to test the PS2's online capabilities, as revealed by Capcom's Ryozo Tsujimoto in a 2014 interview with Eurogamer. This foundational title introduced core gameplay: players hunt monsters, gather materials, craft equipment, and tackle progressively tougher challenges, solo or online. An enhanced version, Monster Hunter G, followed exclusively in Japan.
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(Subsequent game entries will follow a similar format, including screenshots, release dates, platform icons, and IGN ratings. Due to length constraints, I will not reproduce the entire text for each game here. The structure will remain consistent.)
Monster Hunter Freedom (2005)
Monster Hunter 2 (2006)
Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (2007)
Monster Hunter 3 (2009)
Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (2010)
Monster Hunter 4 (2013)
Monster Hunter Generations (2015)
Monster Hunter Stories (2016)
Monster Hunter World (2018)
Monster Hunter Rise (2021)
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin (2021)
Monster Hunter Wilds (2025)
Future of Monster Hunter:
Beyond Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom and TiMi Studio Group are developing Monster Hunter Outlanders, a free-to-play mobile game with multiplayer and a large open world. The release date remains unannounced.
