For the following singularly perturbed problem
−ε2Δu+Vfalse(xfalse)u=ffalse(ufalse),u∈H1RN,N≥3,we construct a solution uε which concentrates at several given isolated positive local minimum components of V as ε→0. Here, the nonlinearity f is of critical growth. Moreover, the monotonicity of f(s)/s and the so‐called Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition are not required.