Monster Hunter World celebrated its fifth anniversary earlier this week, bringing fans around the world togethe♑r in celebration.
Yesterday, January 26, marked exactly five years since Monster Hunter World debuted across PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and brought an entirely new generation of hunters to Capcom's long-running series. The official Monster Hunter Twitter account thanked players for taking ♛part in hunts, just below, prompting an outpouring🌠 of reminiscence from followers.
Here's to five years of M💛onster Hunter World and the Fifth Fleet! From your first steps in the New World to facing off against Nergigante, happy anniversary, Hunters! 🌠Which hunts have you remembered most fondly?#MHWorld pic.twitter.com/YmRBEJ2Fi7
The Monster Hunter community are a talen💎ted bunch, and nowhere is that better evidenced than in the artwork celebrating the event, just like the one below. Nergigante is famed among World players for being a sort of God-killer, even felling the climactic Shara Ishvalda at the end of the ga🍰me, and it's been immortalized here in incredible detail.
It’s Monsterꦜ Hunter World’s anniversary! My introduction to the franchise and I had a blast! pic.twitter.com/wkr6wqZjI9
Another talented fan has put their skills to use with the original animation below, showing an Anjanath and an electrifying Tobi-Kadachi patiently awaiting some food. Monster Hu💎nter's creatures don't typically consume one another – Deviljho's canon appetite notwithstanding – but it seems these two will make an exception when a steak looks that good.
Monster Hunter World took Capcom's franchise to undisputed new heights, resulting in as of September 2022, the most sales of any Capcom-made game. Hell, even its DLC, Iceborne, has outsold the vast majority of Capcom games on its own, tallying nearly 10 million units sold, which f🔯or DLC is basically unheard of.
So good was Monster Hunter World🧔's player 🥃retention that Capcom prepared years of post-launch content for it, the vast majority of which wasn't locked behind any paywall whatsoever. Five years later, World has brought a once niche series to a massive and global audience, and they're now hungry for anything else the series has to offer, like the Monster Hunter Rise Title Update 4 reveal stream coming on February 1.
After launching on Switch in 2020, Monster Hunter Rise debuted on PlayStation and Xbox consoles earlier this month, bringing another excellent game to a brand new audience.
Hirun Cryer is a fꦓreelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.
