The following Monster Hunter sport is out quickly, though it will not be what you count on. Monster Hunter Outlanders is a free-to-play, mobile-only installment being developed by TiMi Studio Group. That will not sound notably interesting, however earlier than you dismiss Outlanders out of hand, it’s value noting that, for a cellular title, what we’ve seen thus far seems to be surprisingly much like conventional entries within the collection.
The sport’s newest trailer reveals the start of a hunt in opposition to a large dragon. The participant slashes with their lengthy sword, rolls out of incoming assaults, and manages their well being bar whereas coordinating with three different gamers. There are additionally eight buttons on the display screen, which is how you understand this can be a actual MonHun sport. Fortunately, it’ll have controller assist, as a result of this doesn’t appear to be the type of factor you’d need to play with out it. We’ll discover out simply how carefully the sport performs to its conventional counterparts when it releases on Oct. 29, 2026.
What different particulars will we learn about Monster Hunter Outlanders?
There’s been fairly an extended look ahead to Monster Hunter Outlanders, as this cellular title was first introduced on Nov. 9, 2022. Its developer, TiMi Studio Group, is a Tencent subsidiary that beforehand labored on video games comparable to Pokémon Unite and Name of Obligation: Cellular. Like different Monster Hunter video games, Outlanders has exploration, crafting, social components together with four-player co-op, and, after all, monster searching. The response to its closed beta checks has largely been positive, with gamers complimenting how shut the core fight compares to earlier installments within the collection.
That mentioned, the largest query mark is how Outlanders‘ monetization will really feel. As a free-to-play title, there are justified worries that this can be one other live-service slog that seeks to monopolize your time and pockets. As for what Capcom has revealed, this can be a gacha sport the place gamers roll for various adventurers, that are preset characters with totally different weapon specialties and distinctive skills. It has the usual style components of a “pity system” the place you’re assured to get an SSR character after 90 pulls, with that pity pull having a 50% likelihood of being the featured banner character.
In fact, how straightforward it’s to get pulls and the way a lot better SSR characters are than their much less uncommon counterparts will decide whether or not this method feels extraordinarily exploitative or solely barely exploitative — all gacha video games have not less than just a little sleaze, in any case. We’ll see if the grind is value it when Monster Hunter Outlanders comes out for iOS and Android in a month.