On Sunbreak’s release day, Monster Hunter Rise has broken its Steam player record

Monster Hunter Rise has broken its all-time Steam concurrent player record, thanks to its new expansion Sunbreak.

According to SteamDB data, the Capcom game achieved its all-time highest number of players, 194,459, which is significantly higher than Rise’s PC launch week numbers of 134,262.

Prior to the launch of Sunbreak, the game was seeing between 70,000 at peak times and 20,000 during quiet periods.

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak was released today, June 30 on PC and Nintendo Switch.

In order to play the expansion, users are required to own the base Monster Hunter Rise game, which was released for Switch in March 2021 and for PC in January 2022.

In our review of the new expansion we said: “The original Monster Hunter Rise is an absolutely fantastic game, so for this expansion to be just more would have been fine, but Sunbreak feels like it earns its price tag and then some.

“The barometer of good Monster Hunter content is if you want to run the same fights over and over to deck out your character in the entrails of the most horrific flying beast you’ve ever seen, and after only a few hours with Sunbreak, we could feel the addiction creeping back.

“Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak is an excellent expansion that will please those Hunters desperate for something new, just make sure you’re prepared, or you’ll quickly be rather sick of the sight of a group of Palicos hauling your lifeless body up the road.”