What is Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak?

Rise’s Master Rank expansion, staged as a gothic hunt: a knightly outpost, a vampire dragon, and monsters falling from the sky.

Sunbreak launched on June 30, 2022, carrying Rise’s hunters across the sea to Elgado, a maritime outpost of the Royal Order, to face the Three Lords: the werewolf-like Lunagaron, the armoured Garangolm, and their sovereign, Malzeno, an elder dragon modelled on a vampire count, draining the life of its prey through swarms of symbiotic Qurio leeches.

Mechanically it deepened everything Rise sketched: the Switch Skill Swap lets hunters carry two move sets and trade them mid-fight, and Follower quests let beloved story characters join solo hunts, a first for the series. Sunbreak sold 11.9 million copies, an extraordinary figure for an expansion that requires its base game, and its title updates ran deep into 2023.