Top Games Like Monster Hunter (2025)

Remnant II

A bit out of the left field, but if it’s a fantastic co-op experience and tense boss battles that you’re looking for, then Remnant: from the Ashes and its sequel should be just the thing you need.

Both Remnant games are third person perspective action games mostly focused on shooting with a generous serving of melee. They are set on a post-apocalyptic Earth ravaged by an interdimensional force.

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Remnants capture the thrill of getting new gear to try out on creature you’ve struggled against previously, and there’s quite a few creative, and delightfully weird designs to make the centerpiece of your build. Remnants are class-based, with each class coming with its unique abilities and traits, which will be very useful while exploring and fighting through procedurally generated dimensions.

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Monster Hunter Wilds

As far as games like MH World are concerned, there probably isn’t any closer than Monster Hunter Wilds, the next title in the core series.

Wilds features an open world connecting your base of operations and the biomes into an open world, but you don’t need to worry about slog. Thanks to Seikrets, the new mounts, roaming the world will be fast and fun, especially since you can turn “autopilot” on.

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Weapons got some new fancy moves, including Focus Strikes dealing massive damage if they hit Wounds you caused to the target, and offset attacks, which can be used as a deflection against certain attacks. Fans of fancy fashion will likely be delighted that armor is no longer gender-locked, giving you twice the options, and layered armor will come free with crafted high rank armor!

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Dark Souls 3

MH is something of an ancestor to the Souls games, so it’s only fitting to feature one of them on the list.

Dark Souls 3 was the last, so far, entry in the series, and we’re picking this one, because Elden Ring would be a better comparison for Monster Hunter Wilds, thanks to their open worlds. Regardless, all your impactful, measured, stamina-managing combat needs are very well served in DS3.

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As usual in the series, you’re playing an undead, the Unkindled, whose task is to preserve the world by forcing erstwhile heroes to fulfill their duties. Of course, this task is both thankless and difficult, carried out across a land of decaying grandeur and intricate design. Dark Souls 3, like its predecessors and successors alike, is a spectacular dark fantasy story with incredible boss battles.

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Wild Hearts

Wild Hearts is quite possibly the most Monster Hunter-like non-MH game released recently.

It covers quite a few of the same checkmarks, but also adds a few of its own touches to make things more interesting in its own way, mostly via the Karakuri: mechanical installations your character can conjure thanks to a magical attunement to the land, once thought lost forever.

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All the important bits are in: giant monsters using natural magic, creative weapons, complex gear, and a very strong visual identity, visibly inspired by feudal Japan. Wild Hearts also has a strong edge over Monster Hunter and, in fact, most games in the list: it features cross-play between Steam, Epic Games Store, Origin, Xbox and PlayStation, which makes playing with friends so much easier!

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Monster Hunter: Rise

It’s a no-brainer, really, but if you crave an experience similar to Monster Hunter World, then another MH game will do that for you!

Monster Hunter Rise is smaller in scope, true, and its gameplay is way faster, because Rise originates on Switch, and when you’re hunting on the go getting bogged in half-an-hour-long hunt might not jive well with your commute schedule.

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Despite that, Rise is still a complex and satisfying Monster Hunting game. Its best gimmick are wirebugs: handy little insects which not only serve as grappling hooks for quick movement, but also enhance your weapon movesets. The maps are smaller, but traversal is very entertaining, partially because this time in addition to a cat helper, you also get a large dog you can ride to battle.

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Bloodborne

There’s much to be said about Bloodborne’s themes and story, but we’re here to talk about killing big monsters, and Bloodborne is quite adept on that front as well.

Your Hunter (that is the name your player character is referred to) gets to murder their way through an unhealthy number of monsters seemingly drawn from the worst fever dreams of H.P. Lovecraft and Zdzisław Beksiński.

Bosses have their weaknesses which might make defeating them slightly less harrowing if you spend some time preparing before you step into the area where your mortal combat will take place. A necessary note is that, like all FromSoftware games, Bloodborne is unforgiving, which, depending on your approach, may result in substantial frustration before you figure out how to kill your first boss.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Dragon’s Dogma is one of those games that mixed a few elements and supported it with a surprisingly deep and weird story arc.

It must be said though, that the juice of the game is still in fighting monsters. Weighty and impactful combat model makes you FEEL when your attacks hit. Landing a fully charged Arc of Deliverance on a swooping griffin feels absolutely amazing.

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Climbable monsters are another great feature. In Monster Hunter you need to land on a creature’s back to start wearing it down. In Dragon’s Dogma, you can grab onto it at any time and just climb up to strike a weak spot or tire the monster out. As a result, killing humongous beasts feels truly empowering. Especially if you customize your character to look like Guts from Berserk.

DD also got a successor in 2024, which was a rather fun evolution on the predecessor, with a few new classes introducting a lot of interesting and cool abilities to the mix. And, of course, monsters were as fine as ever.

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God Eater 3

The God Eater series is no stranger to huge monsters, and its third installment continues the trend.

Step into a devastated world, where combat-enhanced young people of undecipherable age fight monstrous Aragami with melee weapons which are also guns. Yes, it is a Japanese game, and it’s immediately clear, as the characters look like they were dragged straight out of shounen manga.

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Individual hunts are substantially faster and slightly less methodical than in MHW. The weapons are also quite outrageous, although that’s parred for the course for many Japanese action games. God Eater is like a flashy middle-ground between Monster Hunter World and Devil May Cry all set in a post-apocalyptic environment.

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The Witcher 2 & 3

Geralt of Rivia is perhaps the most famous professional monster slayer other than Devil May Cry’s Dante.

The Witcher 2 was where the series really started caring about proper preparation, and this carried over into TW3 as well. Geralt takes on numerous monsters, some of them quite large and intimidating, and taking them down is significantly easier if you take the time to study.

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Lorereveals about the monsters reveals their abilities and vulnerabilities, which helps you choose the right sword, use a relevant oil, set up traps, and skillfully deploy witcher magic. Because of that, it’s not surprising to see Geralt make an appearance as a fully playable character in a special quest in Monster Hunter: World, including some monsters which hopped dimensions at the same time.

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Toukiden 2

If you fancy hunting giant, seemingly intelligent monsters in an alternative history version of Japan, you might take a shine to Toukiden 2.

It could be described as Monster Hunter, but with oni and yokai. The otherworldly beings have invaded the real world and had the full run of it for the past ten years. Now you get to fight back using a creative arsenal of weapons.

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You also get a Demon Hand, a magical tool you can use for traversal and obliterating pieces of demons your weapons couldn’t smash. If you fell in love with Monster Hunter’s deep mechanics, you’re probably not going to be all over Toukiden 2, but if it’s big monsters and cool weapons that you seek, you’re in for a treat.

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