Monster Hunter: World Price History: Buy or Wait?

Wait for a sale or buy now? The history has an answer

That is the only question that matters here, so let me answer it up front and then show you the receipts. If you have been staring at the Monster Hunter: World price history hoping a big drop is around the corner, the data says the drop already happened, and the current price is basically sitting on top of it.

Prices verified from our live price database on July 7, 2026.

Monster Hunter: World launched on PC on August 8, 2018 at a list price of EUR29.99. It scored 88 on Metacritic and has held a strong 89% positive rating across 508,626 Steam reviews, which is a lot of hunters agreeing the core loop holds up. Today the cheapest buyable copy is EUR5.41 at YuPlay, a keyshop, at 82% off. That is about as far from the RRP as this game has ever traveled.

The sale pattern

Here is where a price history usually gets interesting. In Monster Hunter: World's case, it gets interesting by being boring, which is exactly what you want when you are trying to decide whether to wait.

Read that top to bottom and the shape is clear. For most of June the tracked price drifted in a tight band between EUR5.71 and EUR5.87. Then on June 23 it dipped to EUR5.22 and held there for a couple of readings, which is the lowest point we have on record. After that it settled back to EUR5.51 for most of a week before easing to today's EUR5.41.

So the "sale pattern" is really a slow float inside a roughly 65-cent window, with one brief spike downward. There is no dramatic seasonal cliff in this data, no moment where the game suddenly halves. The keyshops that stock it are already competing at the floor, and the floor barely moves.

A quick note on where those prices live. The cheapest options are keyshops: YuPlay at EUR5.41 (trust 65/100), Kinguin at EUR5.57 (trust 85/100), Eneba at EUR5.67 (trust 80/100), and Gamivo at EUR6.47 (trust 72/100). IndieGala lists it at EUR7.79 through an official channel (trust 85/100). If you would rather pay for an official listing and skip a key reseller entirely, Fanatical (EUR25.83, official, trust 95/100) and GameBillet (EUR28.49, official, trust 92/100) are the higher-priced official routes. That is a big gap, and it is your call whether the trust difference is worth roughly five times the price.

Is now a good time to buy?

Yes, and the reason is arithmetic rather than hype. The current best buyable price is EUR5.41. The tracked historical low is EUR5.22, and that number is a past snapshot reading, not necessarily something you can buy right this second. The gap between what you would pay now and the best we have ever recorded is EUR0.19.

Think about what waiting actually buys you. If the price falls back to that EUR5.22 reading, you save nineteen cents. If it does not, you have delayed playing a game you clearly want for the chance to save less than the change in your couch cushions. The downside of buying today is trivially small, and the upside of waiting is smaller still.

The only scenario where holding makes sense is if you are not sure you want it at all. At this price the deciding factor is not the discount, it is whether Monster Hunter: World is your kind of game. It is a hunt-craft-repeat action RPG with a real gear grind and combat that rewards patience. If that sounds like a chore rather than a hook, no discount fixes that. If it sounds fun, EUR5.41 is a very low bar to clear.

Where this sits in the series

Worth knowing before you commit: this is the base game. If you already suspect you will fall in love and want the expansion, the Iceborne Master Edition bundles the big expansion, and the newer Monster Hunter Wilds is the current-generation entry if you would rather start fresh on the latest release. Prefer the more portable, arena-style spin? Monster Hunter Rise is the other branch of the family. Check each of those on its own page, because their price stories are separate from this one.

And if all this monster-slaying is a detour from what you actually came here for, our deep dive on Not For Broadcast is a completely different flavor of chaos worth a look.

The call

Monster Hunter: World is already parked within twenty cents of the lowest price we have ever tracked, and the trend has been flat for over a month. There is no meaningful sale to wait for here. If you want the game, grab it now and start hunting.

Check the live price page above for the current cheapest listing and trust score before you check out, since keyshop prices shift by cents day to day.

Alex, Scout Team