The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an adventure game developed by CD Projekt RED and released in 2015. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on REDengine.

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. There are 78 achievements to unlock.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the 13th of 37 entries we hold in the The Witcher series. The next entry was The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - New Quest 'Contract: Missing Miners' in 2015. Its critic score of 92 is 10 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update at 100.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 93, across 5,519 votes.

The main story runs about 70.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 161.5 hrs, roughly 2.3 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $24.99, that works out to about $0.35 per hour of the main story, or $0.15 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD A10-5800K APU (3.8GHz), 6 GB RAM and Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 50GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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The cheapest verified price right now is $24.99 at GOG, 50% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: India is the cheapest region we track at ₹1,799.00 (about $18.87), while Australia pays A$59.99 — 2.2 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 40 on Steam, which is about $39.99.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launched on 19 May 2015, within three weeks of Splatoon, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Heroes of the Storm and Project CARS. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Splatoon, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Heroes of the Storm, Project CARS.

We have tested and published 57 cheat entries for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 55 console commands and 2 unlockables. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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