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Just 1 day after its PC launch on January 12, Monster Hunter Rising is already one of the superlative 10 most-played games on Steam, co-ordinate to charts generated by SteamDB. At the fourth dimension of writing, SteamDB shows that the game currently has over 80,000 active players and also that it peaked at near 100,000 early on Thursday morning.

Before long, Monster Hunter Rise is the 7th most-played game on Valve's platform. Information technology currently leads Amazon's MMORPG, New Earth, past a little under 3,000 players, and lags behind Grand Theft Auto V past roughly xvi,000, as indicated by SteamDB.

Rise seems to take besides benefitted from a smash in Twitch viewership since the PC port's launch. At the time of writing, the game has almost lx,000 agile viewers on Twitch, but SteamDB, which as well tracks the number of Twitch viewers a item title has, shows that the game had a peak viewer count of over 87,000 viewers on January 12.

Prior to its launch, the PC port of Monster Hunter Rise — which was initially released in 2022 exclusively for the Nintendo Switch — was highly anticipated past fans of the series. The PC version packs a wealth of platform-exclusive features, including an uncapped framerate, loftier-resolution textures, diverse resolutions, and visual filters. Going forwards, it will besides be updated in tandem with the Switch version; both are set up to receive the upcoming expansion, Sunbreak, when it launches in Summer 2022.

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