Can You Play Mistfall Hunter Offline?

This is not the solo question, and that is why it keeps getting the wrong answer

Two different questions share one set of words. "Can I play alone?" is answered yes — there is a solo queue and you can run the whole game without a party. "Can I play without an internet connection?" is answered no. Guides that answer the first question when someone asked the second are the reason this keeps circulating, and the distinction is not pedantry: a solo run still places you on a live map with other real hunters, so playing alone is a matchmaking choice while playing offline is not offered at all.

• Solo is supported and is covered on the solo mode guide — that page is the one you want if the real question was "do I need a squad".
• Offline is not supported in any mode, and no setting, launch flag or single-player toggle changes that.
• The third thing people mean by this question is "is there PvE without other players", which is planned rather than shipped. See below.

What the developer actually said

The reply is post #10 in the launch-day thread, from the account mistveil14 carrying Steam's [developer] badge, timestamped 30 July 2026. It is unusually direct for this niche — most platform answers about this game have to be assembled from patch notes — and it settles three separate questions in one paragraph, which is why it is reproduced below rather than paraphrased.

• Offline: "the game is online-only — all content (including solo play) requires an active internet connection and does not support offline play."
• PvE: "we do have plans for it in the future. This will take a considerable amount of time." No date, and the hedge is the developer's own.
• Oceanic servers, which the original poster also asked about: "we continuously monitor player feedback and are committed to improving server distribution, but any specific plans will be announced via official channels" — an acknowledgement, not a commitment.

What being online-only actually costs you

The practical consequences are worth stating plainly, because "always online" is an abstraction until a server has a bad night. Everything you own lives on the account rather than on your machine, so there is no local save to fall back on, and a maintenance window or an outage is a window in which the game cannot be played at all rather than one in which multiplayer is degraded.