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Monster Hunter Stories for Steam — become a Rider and raise your own monster
Monster Hunter Stories flips the series on its head: instead of hunting monsters, you raise them. It's a turn-based JRPG from Capcom where you play as a Rider — someone who finds monster eggs, hatches them and bonds with "Monsties" for life. In 2024 the game arrived on Steam in a refreshed form, with English and Japanese voice acting, every post-launch monster and a cleaner picture. Here you grab it as a Steam Gift — it drops straight into your library, with nothing to activate by hand.
What the game is and why it clicks
The story starts in a village of Riders and pushes you into a wider world where Riders are feared and misunderstood, while a sinister threat called the Black Blight drives monsters mad. Combat runs on rock-paper-scissors: Power beats Technical, Technical beats Speed, Speed beats Power. Read your opponent's attack type, win the head-to-head clash and charge the bond with your Monstie. It's not mindless grinding — reading enemy patterns and building a team from the monsters you breed is half the fun.
The heart of it is the Rite of Channeling: you explore Monster Dens, gather eggs, hatch them and pass abilities (genes) from one Monstie to another, assembling the perfect partner for your style. That's why Stories lands with both Monster Hunter veterans and people who just want a cozy collect-a-thon RPG full of genuinely charming creatures.
Which editions you can gift
There are two options in this listing — pick by appetite:
- Monster Hunter Stories — the 2024 base game for PC (Steam). The full first-game story, every monster added after launch (including Kushala Daora, Teostra and Rajang), online battles and a Museum mode of concept art.
- Deluxe Collection — a two-game bundle: Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin in its Deluxe edition. The sequel comes with the Deluxe Kit — Navirou costumes (Pukei-Pukei and Nergigante), player layered armor (Razewing Alpha and Beta), the Spiky Nergal hairstyle, Ena's Kuan Coat outfit and sticker sets. The ideal entry point if you want both stories at once.
The difference is simple: the base is the first Stories only, while the Deluxe Collection is the first plus the second game with the sequel's cosmetics. No subscriptions, no in-app top-ups — both options give you the games to own on your Steam account. Whichever edition you choose is what arrives as your gift.
What Wings of Ruin adds inside the Deluxe Collection
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin is a full second game — the tale of the grandson of the legendary Rider Red and a Rathalos bound to him, a story about the bond between a human and the winged king of the skies. In the Deluxe Collection it ships with the Deluxe Kit, so the starter wardrobe and stickers unlock as you play. The base game is included in the bundle — you don't buy the sequel separately.
Gift region: please read before buying
This gift is intended for an account set to the Russia region. The gift is accepted on a Steam account with the Russia region — if your account region is different, Steam may not let you accept it. This is not a global version, so if you're unsure about your account region, check it in your Steam settings before ordering. We flag this honestly so there are no surprises at the redemption step.
How we deliver the gift
It's all kept dead simple, with no manual code wrangling. After payment our bot adds you as a friend on Steam, sends the chosen edition as a gift, and then leaves your friends list — you do not need to send the bot a friend request or confirm one. All you have to do is accept the gift in Steam, and the game (or both games in the Deluxe Collection) lands in your library and starts downloading. There's no product to activate, no code to type, no activation fields to fill in — this is a gift, not a key. Steam Guard is not required to receive it. There's just one condition: you must not already own this game (the chosen edition) in your Steam library, or the gift won't go through. Delivery usually takes a couple of minutes. Once accepted, the games stay tied to your account for good.
Will it run on my rig and on Steam Deck
Stories isn't demanding: its stylized art runs on modest setups, and turn-based fights don't lean on reflexes or high FPS. It's distributed as a regular Windows app on Steam, so it boots on Steam Deck via Proton like most JRPGs of its kind. Always check the exact system requirements on the Steam page — they're kept up to date there.
Coming from "mainline" Monster Hunter?
Stories is a different genre from the action entries: turn-based tactics and monster breeding instead of real-time hunting. But the world, monsters and atmosphere are the real deal. If it clicks, look at the neighbors in the universe: Monster Hunter Rise, Monster Hunter World and the newer Monster Hunter Wilds — classic real-time hunting, a great contrast to the cozy RPG that is Stories.
Purchase in short
You get a Steam Gift: the base is the first Monster Hunter Stories, the Deluxe Collection is both games with the sequel's cosmetics. The bot friends you and sends the game, you accept it — and the games are yours. Pick your edition and start building your Monstie team.
💚 Same game — another format
Nearby in the catalog: Monster Hunter Stories as a Steam key.