Monster Hunter Wilds has exploded onto the scene, reminding folks that looking gigantic beasts will be quite a lot of enjoyable—each by yourself and as a part of a gaggle.

In case your monster-hunting urge has woke up as effectively, there isn’t any scarcity of video games to fulfill it. These titles are good for anybody who has found the magic of Monster Hunter and who nonetheless yearns for extra trophies to seize.

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Assault on Titan 2

Assault on Titan 2 follows the primary two seasons of the extraordinarily common anime of the identical title. On this world, humanity has confined itself inside large, robust partitions to guard itself from Titans—massive humanoid creatures that need to eat them. You play as numerous members of the present who battle the Titans inside and out of doors the partitions.

To defeat a Titan, you have to strike its weak level on the again of its neck. To get to it, it’s a must to use Omni-Directional Mobility (ODM) gear. It fires grappling hooks that cling to buildings, partitions, bushes, and even Titans, permitting you to zip by the air. The fluid motion, responsive fight, and the satisfaction of taking down Titans, coupled with an ideal story, make this recreation a enjoyable and interesting expertise.

Assault on Titan 2 is obtainable on PS4 and PS5, Xbox, Nintendo Swap, and PC.

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Shadow of the Colossus

Shadow of the Colossus sees you enjoying as a person on a journey to resurrect his love by slaying 16 large creatures known as Colossi. The unique got here out on the PS2 in 2005 and pushed the console to its limits because of the sheer measurement of the world and its inhabitants. It was remade in 2018 for the PS4 with improved visuals, higher efficiency, and modernized controls. It was a must-play PlayStation game in the course of the PS2 period, and it stays so even as we speak.

This recreation is solely centered on the principle quest, with no aspect quests or abilities and weapons to accumulate and improve. You simply get in your horse and trot off to defeat the Colossi one after the other. To take down these magnificent however terrifying beasts, you possibly can climb them and strike their weak factors.

The enjoyable is in determining the place the weak factors are or the best way to expose them. This makes taking them down an intricate, difficult, and satisfying puzzle. As you play this recreation, you’ll rapidly understand that the Colossi are the true stars of the present.

Shadow of the Colossus is obtainable on PS4 and PS5.

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Everlasting Strands

Everlasting Strands is an effective mash-up of Monster Hunter, Shadow of the Colossus, and Dragon’s Dogma 2. However the expertise is streamlined whereas including its personal distinct taste to the action-adventure style. You’ll spend a good bit of time occurring expeditions to battle numerous enemies by cleverly mixing hacking and slashing with magic.

The most important highlights, in fact, are the massive monsters you battle, from gigantic beasts to humanoid automatons. You can too climb them to strike weak factors or hack off items of armor, and you will get to these in fascinating methods. For instance, you possibly can freeze a monster in place to mount it and deal some injury.

Everlasting Strands can also be a narrative-focused recreation, so there may be loads of story and dialogue to interact with. Plus, it is enjoyable to discover the extremely stylized fantasy world and uncover its secrets and techniques.

Everlasting Strands is obtainable on PS5, Xbox Collection, and PC.

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Horizon Forbidden West

Horizon Forbidden West is a kind of video games that shares quite a lot of similarities to Monster Hunter Wilds—albeit with a a lot better narrative. Set 1000’s of years sooner or later, the sport follows Aloy as she explores a world the place humanity has regressed to tribal societies. On the similar time, she has to battle animal-like machines that threaten life on the planet.

Whereas Aloy usually fights small-to-mid-sized machines, she continuously runs into dinosaur-like behemoths. Taking them down successfully requires exploiting their weaknesses, which she will be able to expose by scanning them with a instrument generally known as a Focus. For example, if a machine has a hearth canister on its again, taking pictures it with a hearth arrow will trigger it to discover, with the explosion dealing injury to close by machines as effectively.

An enormous a part of this includes strategic preparation and farming assets from all over the world and different machines to craft higher gear—similar to in Monster Hunter Wilds. The sport has a variety of weapons and an expansive talent tree that make you an environment friendly machine hunter by the point the credit roll.

Horizon Forbidden West is obtainable on PS4, PS5, and PC.

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Dauntless

Dauntless is without doubt one of the most accessible monster-hunting video games round. Not solely is it free to play, but it surely breaks down the style into its core parts—killing, amassing, and crafting. There isn’t any monitoring, looking, or trapping.

That’s not to say the monster-hunting facet is not deep and rewarding since you nonetheless must grasp your weapons and slay quite a lot of monsters to progress by the sport and earn rewards.

With that mentioned, it solely has six distinct weapon sorts whereas Wilds has 14, and the monsters aren’t as different or menacing (this might be due to the Fortnite-like graphics). However with its streamlined strategy, faster-paced gameplay, and shorter battles, you’ll discover this one lots simpler to choose up after enjoying Wilds.

Whereas it does have microtransactions, they’re beauty solely. You and three others need not spend something to workforce as much as take down monsters.

Dauntless is obtainable on PS4 and PS5, Xbox, and PC.

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God Eater 3

If taking down enormous beasts (Aragami) with ridiculously massive weapons (God Arcs) in a sci-fi anime setting is or feels like your factor, then God Eater 3 is a recreation it is advisable to strive. The loop is easy: beat Aragami situated in a small space and acquire the supplies they drop. Afterward, use the loot to craft stronger God Arcs and go battle harder Aragami.

The central mechanic in God Eater 3 is the Burst Mode, which you enter when your Burst Gauge is full. You fill it up by utilizing your God Arc to devour Aragami. In Burst Mode you are stronger, sooner, and in a position to make use of the God Arc in methods that may fall the hardest foes.

God Eater 3 is obtainable on PS4 and PS5, Nintendo Swap, and PC.

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Wild Hearts

Wild Hearts is a recreation that comes extraordinarily near Monster Hunter Wilds. You play a hunter who arrives in a mystical land. It is overrun by large beasts known as Kemono, which seem like animals which have fused with nature, and you have to eliminate them to revive stability to nature.

You hunt them utilizing an array of Japanese-inspired weapons, akin to katanas, nodachis, and bladed wagasas. Similar to Dauntless, the weapon choice right here may be very mild in comparison with Monster Hunter Wilds—you solely have eight distinctive weapons.

What units it aside from Monster Hunter Wilds in a significant manner is the karakuri. It is a system that lets you immediately craft mechanical constructions in the midst of battle. For example, you possibly can create a spring that launches you in the direction of a monster to deal injury, or a barricade that knocks down a Kemono that’s charging at you.

Battles happen everywhere in the map, and you really want to grasp your weapons, monster patterns, and the atmosphere to take them down. You’ll be able to play solo or with two different folks (a most of three).

Wild Hearts is obtainable on PS5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC.

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Will these video games give Monster Hunter Wilds a run for its cash? By no means. Solely one other Monster Hunter recreation will try this. However these options provide distinctive takes on looking large creatures, every with its personal particular mechanics and appeal that make them price making an attempt.

When you’ve got a high-end PC then Monster Hunter Wilds is a great way to put it through its paces.