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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Platforms

PC
PS4
PS5
Xbox One
Xbox Series X/S

Initial release May 19, 2015

Developers

CD Projekt RED

Genres

Action Adventure
RPG

Publishers

Bandai Namco Entertainment
CD Projekt
CD Projekt RED

Franchise The Witcher

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Spotlight

Essential | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review

Out now in a new complete edition, this is a landmark RPG.

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CD Projekt Red tried to redesign Geralt's face once, and it backfired horribly

A knee to nose basis.

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The 20 best RPGs to play right now

From the biggest open worlds to the most thought-provoking stories across PC and consoles.
Feature | What worked in The Witcher 3 and what didn't: looking back on a landmark RPG with CD Projekt Red

"We learned a lot of lessons down the road."

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Feed

Tom Holland's Drake hanging from a plane

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Hunters

Gotcha.

Aug. 21, 2025 Robert Purchese

The sun rising in Grounded 2. We look up to it in first-person perspective as it breaks through a see of tree-sized grass blades. A pointed spear and torch are held in the character's hands.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Sunrises and sunsets

It's just dawned on us.

July 30, 2025 Robert Purchese

A soldier in an open-faced silver helmet stands on a wooden bridge looking at the camera.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Starting areas

Begin.

July 9, 2025 Robert Purchese

A cleanly-shaven white-haired man stands scowling at the camera. He's clad in slightly furred leather armour and is equipped with two swords on his back. He has cat-like yellow eyes. It's Geralt of bloody Rivia.

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CD Projekt Red tried to redesign Geralt's face once, and it backfired horribly

A knee to nose basis.

May 31, 2025 Robert Purchese

A side-on image of whitish-grey-haired witcher Geralt, holding his sword above his head and tilted forwards in an "ox guard" position. The scene is dark but the blade and his face are lit in a yellow light, and there's a cape just visible flowing from his shoulders.

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What worked in The Witcher 3 and what didn't: looking back on a landmark RPG with CD Projekt Red

"We learned a lot of lessons down the road."

May 31, 2025 Robert Purchese

A white-haired young woman with startlingly green eyes shields her face from a blinding flash of some kind, with a leather gloved hand. She wears a fur colour and a sword on her back, and there's a white kind of storm all around. It's Ciri in The Witcher 3.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt nearly had a very different name

It was a bit of a mouthful.

May 30, 2025 Robert Purchese

Witcher 3 inspired Xbox controller

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is getting special 10th anniversary Xbox controllers

Where wolf? There wolf!

May 22, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

A crowded atrium of a game development studio showing TV cameras pointing at a smartly dressed lady - the then Prime Minister of Poland - while press watch on.

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What it was like inside CD Projekt Red when The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released

A journey back in time.

May 19, 2025 Robert Purchese

News

Witcher spin-off developer The Molasses Flood has been absorbed into CD Projekt Red

As co-founder leaves studio.

April 9, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

A Chinese warrior in full battle gear and a demon-like mask lunches for the camera, holding two machete-like blades. I'd run.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Schools

It's a tie?

March 12, 2025 Robert Purchese

Henry Cavill as Geralt in the bath in The Witcher adaptation

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Netflix's Witcher casts first game-exclusive character

Wett, Wett, Wett.

March 6, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Witcher 3 screenshot showing close up of Geralt looking sad stood in a tavern

News

Official Witcher prequel novel will focus on a teen Geralt

Youth Rivia-d.

Feb. 28, 2025 Ed Nightingale

A huge, spiny, tusked, toothed monstrosity faces the camera. Facing it and looking up from beneath is a small, top-hatted character with pointy ears. It's Baldur's Gate 3's demon butler looking upon the Slayer.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Monsters

Beast in class.

Feb. 26, 2025 Robert Purchese

Two characters on a 14th century ship sail towards a rocky island in the distance.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Islands

Sights to sea.

Feb. 14, 2025 Robert Purchese

Geralt of Rivia giving a thumbs-up, superimposed over an image of Ciri from The Witcher 4.

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Ciri as Witcher 4 protagonist 'really, really interesting for all kinds of reasons', says Geralt voice actor

A Rivia derci.

Jan. 22, 2025 Matt Wales

The Witcher 3s romantic poet Priscilla

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The Witcher concert set for UK to celebrate Wild Hunt's 10th anniversary

Sax and violins.

Jan. 22, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

A shot from Netflix's animated movie The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep showing a close-up of protagonist Geralt as he roams a misty forest.

News

Netflix's Doug-Cockle-starring animated Witcher movie Sirens of the Deep gets February arrival date

Geralt load of this.

Jan. 14, 2025 Matt Wales

A still from The Witcher 4's announcement trailer showing a close-up of an adult Ciri.

News

The Witcher 4 gets its a first trailer and, yes, Ciri is the star

Plus, Geralt's back too.

Dec. 13, 2024 Matt Wales

Image of two Gwent cards featuring Geralt and Triss

News

The Witcher 3 card game Gwent finally getting a physical release

Cardi-G.

Dec. 6, 2024 Ed Nightingale

The Witcher 3 wild hunt Geralt on horseback

Feature

The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?

It's about time.

Nov. 24, 2024 Robert Purchese

Liam Hemsworth as Geralt in Netflix Witcher series cropped header image

News

The Witcher's Liam Hemsworth hadn't watched Netflix show or read the books before Geralt casting

But was a fan of the game.

Oct. 2, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

A shot from Netflix's animated Witcher movie Sirens of the Deep showing Geralt illuminated by a campfire at night.

News

Netflix's latest animated Witcher movie delayed into 2025, gets new two-minute clip

Sirens of the Deep now due next February.

Sept. 17, 2024 Matt Wales

Master Chief stands in front of a large orange.

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Orange-tinted glasses.

Sept. 5, 2024 Tom Phillips

Geralt in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

News

CD Projekt says The Witcher 4 will enter full production "soon"

And more Cyberpunk animation coming.

Aug. 28, 2024 Matt Wales

A dark image simple but scary 3D character holding a club aloft in a dark room. They are Granny, the eponymous monster in a mobile game. They're coming to get you.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Scary grannies

Oh dear.

Aug. 21, 2024 Robert Purchese

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