Monster Hunter is getting an open-world RPG spinoff for cellular

The Monster Hunter franchise is bringing, nicely, monster looking to your smartphone. Capcom has introduced that it’s teaming up with TiMi — the studio behind video games like Name of Responsibility: Cellular and Pokémon Unite — for a derivative known as Monster Hunter Outlanders. It’s described as an “open-world survival sport” that’s playable both solo or co-op with as much as 4 gamers. It appears like Outlanders will characteristic the core facets of a MonHun expertise (specifically, the exploring, looking, and crafting) however with stay service and social parts typical of a cellular sport.

That current success, mixed with TiMi’s historical past and MonHun’s pedigree as a transportable expertise, are optimistic indicators this might be greater than a cellular money seize. It may be a while earlier than we get to take a look at the sport for ourselves, nevertheless, because it doesn’t at the moment have a launch date. Capcom says there will probably be “a number of play checks prematurely” of the eventual launch.