The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Free Next-Gen Update was released on December 14, 2022, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. This update introduced graphical enhancements such as ray tracing, improved…

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What The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update is

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update is an adventure game developed by CD Projekt RED and released in 2022. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Free Next-Gen Update was released on December 14, 2022, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. This update introduced graphical enhancements such as ray tracing, improved textures, and faster loading times, along with quality-of-life features like a new camera angle, revised UI, and integrated mods. It also added new content inspired by the Netflix series, including armor sets and a themed quest.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Witcher series

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update is the 31st of 37 entries we hold in the The Witcher series. The next entry was Balatro: Friends of Jimbo in 2024. Its critic score of 100 is 18 points above the series average of 82. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 26 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update launched on 14 December 2022, within three weeks of Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight and High on Life. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, High on Life.

Cheats and codes

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