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Monster Hunter Now
Niantic, Inc. · 47,802 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
★★★★★
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Top complaints - extracted from 30 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
23 negative reviews mention this · 77% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh, it’s monster hunter. This game is fun but definitely has a pay to get better equipment. The gems I need to upgrade my armor or weapons are super rare to come by. You can get more if you buy the pass but not here to spend money on a gotcha game for the phone. Ho…" - Buddha1991
2
"play"
13 negative reviews mention this · 43% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unreliable and unplayable. Ever since the latest update or two the app lags during combat rubber banding monsters back and forth. A bigger issue is that the app shuts down randomly either after combat or worse mid combat. It is obnoxious to lose coins, meat, and poti…" - Ca11m3Pr0ph3t
3
"monsters"
10 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh, it’s monster hunter. This game is fun but definitely has a pay to get better equipment. The gems I need to upgrade my armor or weapons are super rare to come by. You can get more if you buy the pass but not here to spend money on a gotcha game for the phone. Ho…" - Buddha1991
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"money"
7 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh, it’s monster hunter. This game is fun but definitely has a pay to get better equipment. The gems I need to upgrade my armor or weapons are super rare to come by. You can get more if you buy the pass but not here to spend money on a gotcha game for the phone. Ho…" - Buddha1991
5
"monster"
6 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh, it’s monster hunter. This game is fun but definitely has a pay to get better equipment. The gems I need to upgrade my armor or weapons are super rare to come by. You can get more if you buy the pass but not here to spend money on a gotcha game for the phone. Ho…" - Buddha1991
6
"potions"
6 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unreliable and unplayable. Ever since the latest update or two the app lags during combat rubber banding monsters back and forth. A bigger issue is that the app shuts down randomly either after combat or worse mid combat. It is obnoxious to lose coins, meat, and poti…" - Ca11m3Pr0ph3t
7
"hunt"
6 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh, it’s monster hunter. This game is fun but definitely has a pay to get better equipment. The gems I need to upgrade my armor or weapons are super rare to come by. You can get more if you buy the pass but not here to spend money on a gotcha game for the phone. Ho…" - Buddha1991
8
"hunter"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh, it’s monster hunter. This game is fun but definitely has a pay to get better equipment. The gems I need to upgrade my armor or weapons are super rare to come by. You can get more if you buy the pass but not here to spend money on a gotcha game for the phone. Ho…" - Buddha1991
9
"armor"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh, it’s monster hunter. This game is fun but definitely has a pay to get better equipment. The gems I need to upgrade my armor or weapons are super rare to come by. You can get more if you buy the pass but not here to spend money on a gotcha game for the phone. Ho…" - Buddha1991
10
"monster hunter"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh, it’s monster hunter. This game is fun but definitely has a pay to get better equipment. The gems I need to upgrade my armor or weapons are super rare to come by. You can get more if you buy the pass but not here to spend money on a gotcha game for the phone. Ho…" - Buddha1991
11
"waste"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unreliable and unplayable. Ever since the latest update or two the app lags during combat rubber banding monsters back and forth. A bigger issue is that the app shuts down randomly either after combat or worse mid combat. It is obnoxious to lose coins, meat, and poti…" - Ca11m3Pr0ph3t
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"real"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Grab Slop. Terrible game. They lure you in with an okay experience, but the late game exists only to tempt you to spend real money for pixels." - NappingEel
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Unreliable and unplayable
Ever since the latest update or two the app lags during combat rubber banding monsters back and forth. A bigger issue is that the app shuts down randomly either after combat or worse mid combat. It is obnoxious to lose coins, meat, and potions on dragons which are extremely rare or rare monsters from friends because the game shuts down so everything you got or used was wasted. Dragons are already unreasonably expensive for friends but now the game can waste my coins and materials?
The ideal solution is to fix whatever is making the game shut down and bring back the more stable code from months ago. Some flaw in the code likely after the end of year updates from the end of 2025.
At least make it so that if a disconnect happens the items used during the match are returned. Maybe make it set a save state just before the match starts that it returns to on disconnect that way nothing is lost.
Because the disconnect occurs offline and online this save state would help in both scenarios.
The ideal solution is to fix whatever is making the game shut down and bring back the more stable code from months ago. Some flaw in the code likely after the end of year updates from the end of 2025.
At least make it so that if a disconnect happens the items used during the match are returned. Maybe make it set a save state just before the match starts that it returns to on disconnect that way nothing is lost.
Because the disconnect occurs offline and online this save state would help in both scenarios.
Money Grab Slop
Terrible game. They lure you in with an okay experience, but the late game exists only to tempt you to spend real money for pixels.
Waste of Time
If you have money to spend on a game to speed things up, play this game and whale. If you’re a minnow or less then get ready for at least a year till you get to end game…phone game btw. Another money trap with precise gameplay required, yet laggy. Worse than “Pokémon Go” by a mile. Just another, worse, money grab and very punishing game. This game punishes you like a real MH game where you should be able to get a lot of resources and come back. Nope, you end up getting minimal supplies for free a day and if you use them all up, money. Have fun and don’t waste your time if you’re “broke” or “cheap”. They want you to think these things, but at the end of the day it’s just another bad game that wants your money.
Remember Pokémon go? Let’s make that but worse
Literally the worst maps game there is makes no sense for it to be a real world game not to mention the broken gameplay. Don’t even waste your limited time on this earth with this slop.
Game Crashes Constantly
Unfortunately I updated the game and now the game crashes constantly with a static sound right before the application crash. Completely unplayable now.
Fix It or get deleted
This app use to be great before the last few updates. Network errors, choppy low frame rate refresh. Is a two year old running things? Fix this or I’m done.
Can’t play
When I open the game it says it needs location access so I go to the settings to enable it, but there is no option. I want to play this but I’m not able to, because it won’t let me play it without location. It works in Pokemon go, also made by niantic, but not this. Is there any fix?
Gotcha
RNG and P2W mechanics - do yourself a favor and play something that is actually worthwhile and fun
So done
I’ve played ever since ps2. As soon as you get 2 fights of no damage I’ve noticed the game starts freezing when you perform reversals or the monster magically slows down right as you release. You can dodge a combo and as soon as you use your special the monster stops mid swipe and literally slides backwards out of reach. I’m done with your systems and will never play again.
Greedy company
To preface, the game isn’t all bad outside the in game store. It’s actually quite fun if you don’t mind spending real cash on it. It’s pretty disappointing though that they have core fundamentals of the game tied to payments. Every other monster hunter game has allowed for potion creation. You get 5 a day, otherwise you’re spending currency exclusive to real world purchases on them. The 5 free per day you get also have a unique name and only stack to 10, unlike the purchased potions which don’t cap so far as I’ve seen, and occasionally come in packs of 50. You can’t even collect materials to produce them, and if you want to play more than just a little a day, you’re going to need them on the high rank hunt events. I would happily purchase every in game event if they weren’t also making you purchase potions to spend any real time on said events. The “driving mode” is infuriating, as if it misreads your location and locks you out of everything much the way Pokémon go did (no surprise being niantic) and blocks out the buttons normally present on the top of the screen. Pray you’re always in a location with a solid gps signal. They are more concerned with not getting sued over dumb people trying to drive and play than they are with producing a solid platform. Another major complaint is that every time they update the game version, you not only have to download the update to the game, but every since interaction or menu following an update requires loading new data. Just today I tried to click on a monster, only to have to wait for another 50mb of data to download before the fight interface even became functional. This happens for every unique monster and menu you interact with after an update. It also does the same thing during group hunts, where you can queue up, but get loaded into a fight 10-20 seconds after it began because everyone’s unique armor and character has to be loaded again if those textures haven’t been seen the version update. The game has incredible potential and I honestly love it, but I can’t give it a positive review in good faith with some of the decisions the companies running it have decided on.
Trash
Don’t waste ur time/send in the real game this is utter garbage
Awful
Cant make your own crafting materials to make potions, (health) no palico to assist you and also you can’t invite friends to a raid or assist a paintball raids literally a ripoff
Dont get sucked in
This game is designed to strip you of your money. Just as a baseline you cant use “zenny”(in game earn-able currency) to buy potions(basic healing item in every monster hunter game). Paintballs which in this game save monsters to hunt them later is a neat mechanic and love, you cannot buy them with zenny. To put into perspective both are so available to obtain in every other MH game that at a certain point you avoid picking them up to avoid them taking up limited slot in your inventory. Zenny is only used the forge/fortify weapons and armor. Of which take cost basically nothing. Rendering zenny useless. Potions and paintballs are integral to game play yet lock behind micro-transactions. If you want monster hunter on the go unfortunately you have to look at more expensive options or pray monster hunter mobile is released for the U.S.
Terrible End game
So you’ve spent 2 years upgrading weapons and armor and finally get to ten star monsters. only to find out your maxed out grade ten weapons and armor can’t even get them to half health in a perfect fight. I’m dealing tens of thousands of damage yet the mother’s health doesn’t go down. even nine star monsters are near impossible with weapons a full grade over the recommended level. not to mention how terrible the whole upgrade system is. i have equipment that requires 1500 items to fully upgrade and I don’t even get one item per monster kill. then they rolled out the style upgrades and even though i’ve killed hundreds of riftborn i’ve yet to get a single style upgrade item. and I need 10 just for one style. yet i can’t get one after hundreds of monster kills. I wouldn’t waste your time if you’re looking to get into monster hunter this is not the game i’d recommend.
Nah
Every fight is a DPS check and monsters can just spam screams or moves that make them un approachable till time runs out.
Avoid this trash
This game is not worth your time. It’s made to try to take as much money from you while you play. Avoid this steaming pile of garbage
Crash
Recent updates are making huntathons unplayable. Keeps crashing on last hunt
Money Grab
It’s a fun game to play, especially if you have played on console before. Be careful about the purchases. There are a lot of in-game items that pop up in parts of the game that aren’t the shop. I lost a large sum of game currency because of an item that popped up in a place that was normally a “next” button to return back to the map after an item customization. I raced out to customer support and they just told me to be more careful when navigating the game. I play a lot of mobile games and something like this has never been an issue in the past. So, play with caution!
why is it so difficult to get potions
i wish there was a way to get them without having to pay all the time just getting five a day isn’t enough to feel like i can play the game more then just two seconds i just makes me want to stop all together
Eh, it’s monster hunter
This game is fun but definitely has a pay to get better equipment. The gems I need to upgrade my armor or weapons are super rare to come by. You can get more if you buy the pass but not here to spend money on a gotcha game for the phone. Honestly this kinda kills it for me and sad to see capcom sign off to this kind of game even if it’s still a third party studio. It’s still holding the name of monster hunter and giving it a terrible name. For a mobile game they need to lower the difficulty on some monsters and or fix the weapons and armor.
Could be better
The game play is alright. I don’t like how it can’t keep up with a diving speed when the players not the diver and how the graphics could be softer and closer too like Pokemon Go or Snapchat in style with more options even. But mostly I wish it was an option too tame the monsters and give them gear also even leveling the “pet” ones up with cool sets of their own armor or even taking them on hunts when I feel I don’t want to hunt some of the cooler monsters actually. Over all the games a 2.5 at most without the ideal location accuracy and “restricting playing due to speed” even after conforming when not the driver but also because the graphics just aren’t “it” for me even even the small hints I’d love along with more of an expansion in training some monsters would really bring it up to about a 4.2 with only that training the monsters option on my part
Micro transactions
As much as I’ve have enjoyed the game, I see way too many options of buying better material, rather than giving us a balanced play field. There’s a cost for anything which is company greed..
Not Fun Anymore
So the developers are masters of giving items not needed! Also, the monsters are becoming way too difficult to defeat. Nothing but spinning broncos impossible to avoid. I’m done with this game.
Fix the game
So the game is fun and I’m enjoying it. I would like to still hunt monsters when Im a passenger or on a bus or something. But my main issue is payment methods. Using the online store I wanted to buy some premium packs and I used apple pay, next pack i couldn’t use apple pay. So I contacted the store support and they said they couldn’t help me, so I used the game support and was told to wait for a response. Welp I’m still waiting. Look devs it’s simple you offer packs --> I like said pack and add to cart ---> I pay and receive pack. This is a first for me that a game does not want my money, why remove my most proffered payment method and make this difficult.
Big monster hunter fan since 3
Gameplay is good, love the events, but not being able to play when I’m a passenger or riding a train is the most annoying thing. It’s what makes me delete the game
Variabilidad de Monstruos
En mi opinión el juego esta muy bien, pero seria mejor que añadieran también monstruos pequeños de otros juegos, porque veo que solamente están los de World y Iceborne como Jagras, Mernos, Shamos, Raphinos, Kertos y Wulg (excepto a los Girros y a los Barnos, son los únicos de World que no añadieron y me parece algo injusto). También me molesta que no haya ninguna otra manera de curarte; deberían añadir mínimo una opción para crear pociones con hierbas y cosas así, ya que siempre que muero, agoto mis pociones y tengo que esperar largas horas aburridas. Además, deben arreglar la hitbox del Tigrex Pardo, su rugido me alcanza incluso cuando me quito del medio.
Great game with wasted potential
As a huge MonHun fan and PoGo player I was really stoked to play this game. Within the first day I was extremely hooked. The combat feels amazing, the game’s group hunts are fun, and the monsters are giving me a MonHun fix away from the actual game. I installed in a weekend out of town where I was doing a lot of walking, but back home I usually use a ride share and public transit to get around. That’s when I realized the big failure of the game.
This games motion detection feels WAY more brutal than PoGo’s. If you’re in the car with someone or on the subway, you can still spin pokestops and catch pokemon. This game COMPLETELY LOCKS YOU OUT. If you are in a hunt a thon you can play through, but otherwise, you are unable to play the game if you are moving quicker than 15 mph. I understand the desire to deter people from playing while driving, but you’ve completely kneecapped anyone who doesn’t want to dedicate walks outside their usual commute to play this game. Yet the style of this game is actually perfect for someone on public transit.
If you’re looking for something to play on a walk, this is your game, if you’re looking to kill time on a commute, avoid this game at all costs.
This games motion detection feels WAY more brutal than PoGo’s. If you’re in the car with someone or on the subway, you can still spin pokestops and catch pokemon. This game COMPLETELY LOCKS YOU OUT. If you are in a hunt a thon you can play through, but otherwise, you are unable to play the game if you are moving quicker than 15 mph. I understand the desire to deter people from playing while driving, but you’ve completely kneecapped anyone who doesn’t want to dedicate walks outside their usual commute to play this game. Yet the style of this game is actually perfect for someone on public transit.
If you’re looking for something to play on a walk, this is your game, if you’re looking to kill time on a commute, avoid this game at all costs.
😕😕😕
I recommend do not download It’s really annoying at the start of the game. Because you only get five potions today.
Scaling is off
Weapons too weak no health, some monsters attacks it doesnt matter your timing at all they still will kill you nake the game funnier in general
Un problema
De qué sirve que te salga la opción de que no eres el que está conduciendo y de todos modos el juego se suspende
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)