Performance wise I am not bothered by this game at all. Im running on an 3080 with an I7 12700F and get the very odd stutter. I deleted one drive from my computer before installing, turned off depth of field and turned down shadows and reflections one notch. I also under graphics settings set the game to high performance. Aside from the very odd stutter I have had no problems no crashes.

As for the game play, this game has a lot of charm and I can tell the people who made it had a sadly unrealised grand idea for what they wanted this game to ultimately be. That being said, what is here is very fun and I would recommend Wild Hearts to anybody who enjoys monster hunter/toukiden style games. This has a faint souls like feel but is most definitely not souls. It does have a difficulty curve in the slight movement jank and learning weapon move sets as well as dealing with animation lock. But once you uncover the mechanics and learn how to deal, then the game is a ton of fun. Really enjoy the foraging and exploration as well as the fast travel system and the hub/quest layout. Looking forward to what the rest of this game is about as the story is only half bad. I hear that it gets a lot more difficult in late game so I am anxious to tackle that challenge. All in all MH wilds/rise/world are all better and deeper games than this but if you have finished all that's available from that series on steam then I highly suggest you to dip your toes into this game.

Oh yeah and you can build boxes and traps and crap which I do not care about but will likely be forced to use at some point.

**** EA for abandoning a fantastic game
**** EA Play
8/10 easy buy on sale for 15 bucks!

get on EA Play or <10€ discount.

while this game has potential to be better than even monster hunter series, it is unfortunately abandoned.
performance is straight up atrocious - most likely because its bad console port.

gameplay is really fun
crafting and building systems are pretty flashed out and enjoyable
story is decently mid
recommend going in with friends, as multiplayer is pretty much dead

Everyone has been talking about some "Wild" game lately so I figured I would check this out! The game requires the EA launcher and an EA account which is not good, The performance is pretty bad too, I run an RTX 3080 and during the intro I noticed a bit of stuttering so I lowered the settings to the lowest setting only to find no difference in FPS. Graphically the game looks decent and the combat feels satisfying, but later monsters you fight will move very fast and attack with AOEs very often almost like you are fighting a boss from Elden Ring with a 60 minute timer. The armor and gear you craft is all Japanese inspired which makes sense, but it also make none of the gear all that visually distinctive.

The building mechanic is interesting, but it reminds me of Fortnite which is not good. Multiplayer works, but there are not a lot of people there to hunt with. Overall I feel this series has potential and what is here is actually pretty good. EA just needs to refine the formula, improve the performance, and maybe give their monsters actual unique names. Ohhh...EA stopped updating the game and has no plans to continue the series going forward? Well I guess you can check the game out if it goes on sale for $10 or less, but other than for that price I wouldn't recommend this game. As I'm typing this review the game crashed with an error message too.