Mistfall Hunter Review: Is It Worth It?
Metacritic 71, OpenCritic 72, Steam 61% — 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 · PC
71/100
- OpenCritic · All platforms
72/100
- Steam · All languages
61%
Critics landed in the low 70s and players are colder. That split is not noise — the two groups reviewed different things. Critics reviewed the combat; players reviewed the balance, the matchmaking and the launch.
All three read 12 August 2026 · aggregates recalculate, so this is a dated snapshot
Will you like it?
The scores range from 65 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.
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.
- 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 August 2026. The price is the US Steam price on the same date.
Every score
All 15 published reviews
14 carry a number and one does not — Gameliner published a verdict without a score, and dropping it to tidy the average would be the wrong kind of tidy. Scores are normalised to 100 so they can be compared; the outlet's own notation is kept beside each one.
| 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 | Unknown Author · 11 Aug | A publisher-provided review key; OpenCritic lists the verdict at 80. | 808/10 |
| Game8 | Third Mondigo · 30 Jul | The Soulslike-plus-extraction blend should not work, and does. | 7676/100 |
| 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 |
| COGconnectedTop critic | Mark Steighner · 5 Aug | Real limitations solo and in 1v1; it rises for like-minded groups. | 7272/100 |
| GamingTrendTop critic | Joe Morgan · 4 Aug | Fun but flawed; meaningful class variety, rough edges left to buff. | 7070/100 |
| MKAU Gaming | Jordan Swift · 10 Aug | Kept pulling them back; every loss balanced by a victory. | 707/10 |
| GamingBoltTop critic | Stuart Glover · 7 Aug | It softens the genre’s frustrations, and its tension with them. | 707/10 |
| CGMagazinePS5Top critic | Jordan Biordi · 7 Aug | Good ideas, but a shallow RPG layer makes extraction monotonous. | 656.5/10 |
| Gameliner | Joey Visser · 7 Aug | Rewarding once you look past a few design choices. No score given. | No score |
The gap
Why the three numbers disagree
71, 72 and 61% 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 August 2026.
OpenCritic’s 72 is the mean of its 7 designated Top Critic outlets, not of all 15 reviews it lists — and those 7 happen to be the harsher half. Average the 14 scored reviews on this page instead and you get 75. Metacritic’s 71 is a third set again: 8 outlets, weighted by its own undisclosed formula. None of the three is wrong. They are three different questions with the same-looking answer format.
The receipt
The receipt
The receipt
Consensus
What the reviews actually agreed on
Only themes raised by four or more of the fifteen. 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.
- Official7,022 positive of 11,446 Steam reviews — 61.3%, which Valve labels Mixed.
Valve's review summary API for app 3282300, queried 12 August 2026 with language=all and purchase_type=all. English alone is 3,471 of 5,434.
- CorroboratedMetascore 71 from 8 critics; OpenCritic Top Critic Average 72 across 15 listed reviews.
Read directly from both aggregator pages on 12 August 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.
- Corroborated14 individual scores ranging 65 to 84, mean 75.
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
Sources for this page
- Metacritic — Mistfall Hunter (PC) — Metascore 71 from 8 critic reviews, user score 6.5 from 42 ratings. Read 12 August 2026.
- OpenCritic — Mistfall Hunter — Top Critic Average 72, "Fair", 53% of critics recommend, 15 reviews listed. Read 12 August 2026.
- Steam — review summary API, app 3282300 — 7,022 positive of 11,446, all languages and all purchase types. Read 12 August 2026.
Every figure on this page was read on 12 August 2026. Aggregate scores change as reviews land — check the live pages before quoting these.
Before you buy
Researched by Mistfall Hunter Guide Editorial Team