Update, 3:26 am PT: It's not even been 24 hours since Monster Hunter Wilds' PC release—but it's very, very nearly scraped close to 1 million players on Steam in its first six hours. As mentioned in the original story below, Capcom's megafauna-filled mega-release shot to the top 10 rankings of the most-played PC games of all time on Steam in less than two hours.
At the time of writing, it's still seated comfortably just under Cyberpunk 2077—fewer than 70,000 peak players below CD Projekt's heavy-hitter. The hype is downright stratospheric for this thing. While things have tapered off just a tad—with the current player count sitting at 933,377 right now, I feel like I should note it's not even the weekend yet. So long as things continue, punching through that 1 million ceiling is entirely possible.
