There’s another new Monster Hunter game on the way. Monster Hunter Outlanders is built on open-world survival gameplay, giving us a close approximation of World, Wilds, and Rise. The action RPG series has been going from strength to strength over the last two decades, and Outlanders promises to bring the series to the biggest audience around – because it’s coming to mobile.
Developed by TiMi Studio Group – that’s the team behind Age of Empires Mobile, Call of Duty Mobile, and Pokemon Unite – Monster Hunter Outlanders is poised to bring Capcom’s formula to phones. Unlike Monster Hunter Now, though, this isn’t an augmented reality monster fighter. Instead, Outlanders takes Monster Hunter in the direction of open-world survival games.
TiMi says Monster Hunter Outlanders is built around combining three elements: exploring and surviving an open-world map filled with the monsters you already know, crafting your own gear and tools, and the series’ traditional hunter experience – either solo or with a group of up to four. After I spent a lot of time with the Monster Hunter Wilds beta, this sounds and looks an awful lot like that experience condensed onto mobile.
Monster Hunter Outlanders will also feature regular world events and activities, so you can keep jumping back in to do even more. If previous Monster Hunter games are any indication, I’d expect new creatures and maybe even extra weapons as post-launch content. “Monster Hunter Outlanders not only offers players an authentic hunting experience, but it does it in a massive open world featuring the community and social systems players are looking for today,” TiMi Studio Group producer Dong Huang says.
The game also features several catapults, which you can use to propel your hunter into the air before they open up a glider to get around. It’s definitely reminiscent of Breath of Wild and Genshin Impact’s glider mechanics, and is sure to make quick traversal much easier.
Monster Hunter Outlanders currently has no release date, but it will be coming to mobile via both the Apple App Store and Google Play with multiple play tests planned.
If you want to brush up on as much of Capcom’s series as possible, we’ve also put together the best Monster Hunter Wilds weapons and Monster Hunter Wilds system requirements.
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