How to Play the Monster Hunter Games in Order

Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2024, roars back in 2025 with Monster Hunter Wilds. This prolific series, spanning multiple console generations, 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: A Vast Landscape

The Monster Hunter series boasts over 25 games, encompassing core titles, spin-offs, mobile releases, and enhanced editions. This list focuses on the 12 most significant, excluding mobile and arcade-only games (e.g., Monster Hunter i, Monster Hunter Spirits), discontinued MMOs (Monster Hunter Frontier, Monster Hunter Online), and 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 title as your entry point. Newcomers in 2025 might prefer to await reviews of Monster Hunter Wilds. However, Monster Hunter World (emphasizing exploration) or Monster Hunter Rise (prioritizing speed and fluidity) are excellent starting points.

Out February 28### Monster Hunter Wilds - Standard Edition

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A Chronological Hunt: Every Monster Hunter Game

Monster Hunter (2004)

Monster Hunter, alongside Auto Modellista and Resident Evil: Outbreak, was part of Capcom's PS2 online strategy (Eurogamer, 2014). This foundational title introduced core gameplay: players undertake hunts, gather materials, craft equipment, and face progressively challenging monsters, solo or cooperatively. Monster Hunter G, an expanded Japanese-only version, followed.

Monster HunterCapcom Production Studio 1Mar 11, 2004

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Monster Hunter Freedom (2005)

The PSP's Monster Hunter Freedom, an enhanced port of Monster Hunter G, marked the series' portable debut, selling over a million copies and establishing a trend of portable versions outselling console releases (until Monster Hunter World).

Monster Hunter FreedomCapcom Production Studio 1Dec 1, 2005

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