Mistfall Hunter Review: Is It Worth It?

Q: Why are the Steam reviews Mixed when critic aggregates are warmer?

Because they are counting different people. Metacritic's 70 is weighted from 13 curated outlets, OpenCritic's 72 is the Top Critic Average, and both reviewed the game around launch with more focus on combat. Steam's 53% is 17,228 buyers who kept playing past that week, and the complaints that dominate there are balance and matchmaking. None of those numbers is wrong; they are answers to different questions.

Q: Is Mistfall Hunter worth it?

It is $24.99 at the time of writing, with no Steam discount showing in the US store. The highest-score cluster likes the combat loop, while the lowest scores and one low-70 review call out solo or 1v1 play. If you have two people to play with it is easier to recommend; if you are buying it to play alone, the reviews say wait for a sale.

Q: Is the PS5 or Xbox version reviewed differently?

No clear platform pattern yet. The visible PS5 rows are CGMagazine at 65 and Pizza Fria at 66, while Completexbox gave the Xbox Series X|S build 80. That is worth knowing and does not prove anything: no outlet has run a like-for-like comparison across platforms.

Metacritic 70, OpenCritic 72, Steam 53% — every published Mistfall Hunter review score in one table, why the three aggregators disagree, and who the game is actually for.

Short answer

Worth it if you have two friends and patience. Harder to recommend solo at full price.

Metacritic · Default PC-linked page
70/100
Mixed or Average. Weighted from 13 critic reviews. Its user score is a separate 5.9 from 59 user ratings; the visible platform text in this scan also shows PS5 at 71 from 7 critic reviews and one Xbox Series X review without a Metascore.
OpenCritic · All platforms
72/100
Fair. The Top Critic Average — the mean of its eight designated Top Critic outlets, while the main game page links to 28 critic reviews and the paginated review HTML renders 28 rows. 41% of critics recommend it.
Steam · All languages
53%
Mixed. 9,189 positive of 17,228 reviews — still the largest sample by far, and the only figure that keeps moving after launch week.

Critic aggregates run from the mid-60s to the low-70s while players are colder. That split is not noise — the groups reviewed different things. Critics reviewed the combat; players reviewed the balance, the matchmaking and the launch.

All three read 12 September 2026 · aggregates recalculate, so this is a dated snapshot

Applies to 9 September 2026 updateUpdated September 2026

By Mistfall Hunter Guide Editorial Team

Image: Official Mistfall Hunter Steam store

Will you like it?

The scores range from 50 to 84 because reviewers wanted different things from the game. Say what you want, and this hands you the verdicts of the critics who wanted the same thing — named, so you can go read them.

How will you play?

What are you here for?

Patience for a rough launch?

Worth it on a sale, not today

Solo is the weakest way to play it and the reviews say so plainly — but the combat critics scored highest is fully available alone. Waiting costs you nothing except the launch discount.

Backed byCGMagazine (65) and COGconnected (72), the two that name solo and 1v1 play as the weak spot.

AgainstEvelonGames (80) on the high skill ceiling, and Gert Lush Gaming (84) on the intensity of the fighting.

On your priorityGert Lush Gaming (84) and EvelonGames (80) rate the combat highest; GamingBolt (70) is the dissent, arguing the tension is softened too far.

Price$24.99 on Steam, no US discount showing, read 12 September 2026.

Reviewers in your position said yes
They were split
They said no

This routes you to published reviews; it does not compute a score. Every outlet and figure named below is transcribed from the score table on this page, read 12 September 2026. The price is the US Steam price on the same date.

Every score

All 28 published reviews

26 carry a normalised numeric score; The Gamerheads Podcast published a letter grade and Gameliner published no score, so both stay out of the arithmetic rather than being forced into fake numbers. Numeric scores are normalised to 100 so they can be compared; the outlet's own notation is kept beside each one.

26 scored reviews · range 50–84 · mean 72 · dashed lines are the aggregates

Outlet	Reviewer	What it turned on	Score
Gert Lush Gaming	Jim Smale · 3 Aug	A fascinating world with deep progression and intense combat.	848.4/10
EvelonGames	Joel Isern Rodríguez · 10 Aug	Slower, heavier combat than its genre, hiding a high skill ceiling.	808/10
CompletexboxXbox Series X\|S	Jordan Campbell · 9 Aug	Atmospheric and tense, and at its best as a squad of three.	8080%
SoftpediaTop critic	Cosmin Vasile · 11 Aug	A publisher-provided review key; OpenCritic lists the verdict at 80.	808/10
PS4Blog.netPS5	PS4Blog.net · 5 Aug	A PS5 review framing the core question as surviving the Gyldenmist, monsters, and other Gyldhunters.	808/10
Gaming Boulevard	Michiel Vonck · 16 Aug	High-risk PvPvE and character progression make the extraction loop worth returning to.	808/10
Game8	Third Mondigo · 30 Jul	The Soulslike-plus-extraction blend should not work, and does.	7676/100
GameBlast	Thiago da Silva · 11 Aug	Solid combat, strong class variety, and issues that patches could fix.	757.5/10
CrazyGameCommunity	Davide Fanelli · 8 Aug	Intriguing but imperfect; it does capture the extraction tension.	757.5/10
WayTooManyGames	Dagmara Kottke · 11 Aug	A pleasant surprise with satisfying combat and an addictive loop.	757.5/10
DualShockersTop critic	Shane Limbaugh · 4 Aug	A great game buried under some questionable design choices.	757.5/10
DayOneTop critic	Győző Baki · 4 Aug	A satisfying loop and a striking world — a strong starting point.	757.5/10
República DG	André Custódio · 3 Sep	A bold extraction take with matches lasting up to 20 minutes and original ideas.	737.3/10
COGconnectedTop critic	Mark Steighner · 5 Aug	Real limitations solo and in 1v1; it rises for like-minded groups.	7272/100
Seasoned Gaming	Zach Bateman · 1 Sep	The genre blend has PvP, bosses, loot, and a world worth exploring.	707/10
GamingTrendTop critic	Joe Morgan · 4 Aug	Fun but flawed; meaningful class variety, rough edges left to buff.	7070/100
NoobFeed	Maisie Scott · 1 Aug	Gratifying progression and combat give the technical and design issues a solid foundation to build on.	7070/100
MKAU Gaming	Jordan Swift · 10 Aug	Kept pulling them back; every loss balanced by a victory.	707/10
Rectify Gaming	Victor Tan · 15 Aug	Fast-paced action works if you want the unavoidable multiplayer pressure.	707/10
GamingBoltTop critic	Stuart Glover · 7 Aug	It softens the genre’s frustrations, and its tension with them.	707/10
GamefaTop critic	Mostafa Zahedi · 6 Aug	Strong combat, classes and loot ideas, held back by thin content and rough systems.	707/10
Pizza FriaPS5	Bruno Josué Alves de Oliveira · 15 Aug	Strong PvP and class combat, held back by repetition and a shallow story.	666.6/10
CGMagazinePS5Top critic	Jordan Biordi · 7 Aug	Good ideas, but a shallow RPG layer makes extraction monotonous.	656.5/10
Try Hard Guides	Erik Hodges · 10 Aug	Good bones, but solo restrictions and monetisation kept it at mid.	606/10
Enternity.gr	Konstantinos Kalkanis · 12 Aug	A commendable first effort, but not one likely to hold the spotlight alone.	606/10
EmuGlx.org	Vladimir Glamočanin · 19 Aug	The dark-fantasy twist does too little to distinguish it from a crowded extraction field.	505/10
The Gamerheads Podcast	Roger Reichardt · 13 Aug	Best for ARPG and Souls-like fans who can bring friends.	B+
Gameliner	Joey Visser · 7 Aug	Rewarding once you look past a few design choices; strongest with friends.	No score

The gap

Why the three numbers disagree

70, 72 and 53% are not three attempts at one measurement. Each counts a different set of people, and the arithmetic behind each is public. Here it is, read 12 September 2026.

OpenCritic’s 72 is the mean of its 8 designated Top Critic outlets, while the main game page currently links to 28 critic reviews and the paginated/newest HTML renders 28 rows — and those 8 happen to be the harsher half. Average the 26 scored reviews on this page instead and you get 72. Metacritic’s 70 is a third set again: 13 outlets, weighted by its own undisclosed formula. None of the three is wrong. They are three different questions with the same-looking answer format.

Metacritic showing a capture-time Metascore of 70, Mixed or Average, based on 7 critic reviews, and a user score of 6.4 from 41 user ratings — Metacritic's Metascore and its separate user score, captured when the panel showed 70 from 7 critic reviews and 6.4 from 41 user ratings. The live page now reads 70 from 13 critic reviews, with a 5.9 user score from 59 user ratings. The important part is the separation: the critic score and user score are different samples. Metacritic — Mistfall Hunter, captured 11 August 2026. Check the live page — it is the authority, not this crop.

OpenCritic showing a capture-time Top Critic Average of 71 with a Fair badge, 46 percent of critics recommending, and a link to all 13 critic reviews — OpenCritic's capture-time 71 sat beside the words Top Critic Average and a link reading View All 13 Critic Reviews. The live page now reads 72 with 41% critics recommending and links to 28 critic reviews; the paginated review HTML renders 28 rows across page 1 and page 2. The point is unchanged: the Top Critic set and full review count are different samples. OpenCritic — Mistfall Hunter, captured 11 August 2026. Check the live page — it is the authority, not this crop.

The Steam store page for Mistfall Hunter showing English Reviews as Mixed with 4,973 reviews, released 30 July 2026 — The store widget defaults to English only; this crop shows 4,973 from its capture time. Valve's review API, asked for all languages and all purchase types, now returns 17,228 — which is the figure used on this page, because it is the one whose filters are stated. Steam — Mistfall Hunter, captured 11 August 2026. Check the live page — it is the authority, not this crop.

Consensus

What the reviews actually agreed on

Only themes raised by four or more of the 28. A point one reviewer made is that reviewer's opinion and stays in their row above.

Nearly everyone praised

Combat that is heavier and slower than the rest of the genre, with a real skill ceiling
The dark-fantasy world and the atmosphere of the mist
Extraction tension — the walk back to the bell
Class variety, and progression with somewhere to go

Nearly everyone faulted

Solo and 1v1 play is the weakest way to experience it
A shallow RPG layer underneath the loot
Repetition once the loop is learned
Design choices that soften the genre’s tension — no lock-on, no gear weight on dodges

Evidence

What each number on this page is

Review-score arguments run on figures stripped of their sample sizes. These are the sample sizes.

Official9,189 positive of 17,228 Steam reviews — 53.3%, which Valve labels Mixed.
Valve's review summary API for app 3282300, queried 12 September 2026 with language=all and purchase_type=all. English alone is 4,344 of 7,826.
CorroboratedMetascore 70 from 13 critics; OpenCritic Top Critic Average 72 with a 28-review game-page link and 28 rows in the paginated review HTML.
Read directly from both aggregator pages on 12 September 2026. The screenshots above are older receipts for the sample mechanics; the live figures here come from the linked pages, which recalculate when a new review lands.
Corroborated26 individual scores ranging 50 to 84, mean 72.
Each transcribed from the outlet's own review in the outlet's own notation and linked in the table. The mean is arithmetic on those, computed in code from the same array the table renders.
InferredThe critic–player gap is a difference of subject, not a difference of taste.
Ours: critics reviewed launch-week builds and wrote about combat, while the Steam split moved as balance and matchmaking complaints accumulated. That is a pattern we are reading across the two sets, not a claim any reviewer or Valve has made.

Review FAQ

Does Mistfall Hunter have a Metacritic score?

Yes — 70 on Metacritic's default PC-linked page, labelled Mixed or Average, from 13 critic reviews as of 12 September 2026. It showed "tbd" for the first week after launch, so articles saying it has no Metascore are out of date rather than wrong. Its user score is separate and much smaller: 5.9 from 59 user ratings.

Why are the Steam reviews Mixed when critic aggregates are warmer?

Is Mistfall Hunter worth it?

Is the PS5 or Xbox version reviewed differently?

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Sources for this page

Metacritic — Mistfall Hunter — Metascore 70 from 13 critic reviews, user score 5.9 from 59 user ratings. Read 12 September 2026.
OpenCritic — Mistfall Hunter — Top Critic Average 72, "Fair", 41% of critics recommend, and the game page links to 28 critic reviews while the paginated review HTML renders 28 rows. Read 12 September 2026.
Steam — review summary API, app 3282300 — 9,189 positive of 17,228, all languages and all purchase types. Read 12 September 2026.

Every figure on this page was read on 12 September 2026. Aggregate scores change as reviews land — check the live pages before quoting these.

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