Monster Hunter: World
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Action RPG Monster Hunter: World, released in 2018, offers co-op and multiplayer gameplay. Developed and published by Capcom, it has garnered 315,561 Steam reviews with an 89% positive rating.
Overview
Monster Hunter: World is a 2018 Action game developed by CAPCOM Co., Ltd. and published by CAPCOM Co., Ltd.. On Steam it has gathered 316,128 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer CAPCOM Co., Ltd. with publisher CAPCOM Co., Ltd. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 15.2 million to 35.4 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Monster Hunter: World can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
316,128
Positive
89%
Steam appid
582010
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.015.2M to 35.4M
units (median: 25.3M)
≈ $259.9M to $606.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 80 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Monster Hunter: World at roughly 15.2 million to 35.4 million copies, with a median around 25.3 million, derived from its 316,128 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $433.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $15.92Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $15.92 to $29.99, averaging $28.70 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $15.92 on 2026-04-15.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Co-opMultiplayerActionOpen WorldRPGCharacter CustomizationThird PersonAdventureFantasyAction RPGDifficultSingleplayerExplorationGreat SoundtrackReplay ValueAtmosphericHack and SlashJRPGMMORPGSouls-like
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Monster Hunter: World sold?
- indielist estimates Monster Hunter: World has sold between 15,174,144 and 35,406,336 units (median 25,290,240), derived from its 316,128 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Monster Hunter: World?
- Monster Hunter: World was developed by CAPCOM Co., Ltd. and published by CAPCOM Co., Ltd..
- When was Monster Hunter: World released?
- Monster Hunter: World was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Monster Hunter: World have on Steam?
- Monster Hunter: World has 316,128 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Monster Hunter: World within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, CAPCOM Co., Ltd.'s other releases and CAPCOM Co., Ltd.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Monster Hunter: World sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Monster Hunter: World page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.