A bit different but kinds like farming type game. Cannot say same like dota because dota is PvP, mhw is PvE. But every monsters that you hunt, you must treat it as a "Boss" because when you attack it, already half hour, sometimes 50 minutes times up it still not die.

So to overcome this problem, you have to craft a stronger weapons. If you found that you are too weak, then you have to farm materials from the environments, either collect materials from mining and plants or mainly is hunt the specific monsters that you want.

This game is quite famous in Japan. When you touched it, other games can no need to play already.