The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered
The role-playing game The Witcher 3 sends monster hunter Geralt into an open world to find his adopted daughter Ciri, who is pursued by the Wild Hunt. Even for the minigame the developers weighed several ideas: a drinking contest, knife throwing, ice skating. The card game Gwent won, and it was later spun off into a game of its own.
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At The Game Awards 2015 The Witcher 3 won Game of the Year and Best RPG, and CD Projekt Red was named Developer of the Year. A year later the Blood and Wine expansion took Best RPG at the same show.
In December 2019, as the Netflix series came out, US physical sales of the game rose 554% over the previous December. And on 14 December 2022 a next-gen edition arrived, free for existing owners on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
One reviewer likened the side quests to dark fantasy short stories. At launch critics faulted the technical problems, and one reviewer found the combat shallow. Players leave 96% positive out of 842,337 reviews, critics give it 93 on Metacritic. By our Recommended Score it is #12 of 4,736 games.
Liked The Witcher? Try The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, the previous part, where a choice at the end of the first chapter decides what the second one looks like, and Middle-earth: Shadow of War, where orcs remember fights with the hero and climb the ranks after you die.
Major updates
The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt — Remastered is available now · Sep 2026All 2
System requirements
Minimum GTX 1660 · 12 GB RAM✓Steam Deck VerifiedMin & recommended
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 64-bit Windows 11 | 64-bit Windows 11 |
| Processor | Core i5-8400 / Ryzen 5 2600 | Intel Core i7 8700K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
| Memory | 12 GB | 16 GB |
| Graphics | GeForce GTX 1660 / Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB / Arc A580 | RTX 2060 Super / AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT / Intel Arc B580 |
| Storage | 60 SSD GB available space | 60 SSD GB available space |
From the game’s Steam store page.
