The Witcher
Based on the novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher follows Geralt of Rivia, an amnesiac witcher (problem solver and slayer of monsters) whose home, the Kaer Morhen citadel, is besieged by an…
The Witcher is an adventure developed by CD Projekt RED, released 26 October 2007 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.49 at GOG. This page lists 5 cheat codes for it.
What The Witcher is
The Witcher is an adventure game developed by CD Projekt RED and released in 2007. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Aurora Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins when Geralt of Rivia, one of a few remaining "witchers" – traveling monster hunters for hire, gifted with unnatural powers, is transported to the witcher stronghold of Kaer Morhen by fellow witchers who had discovered him unconscious in a field. Geralt remembers almost nothing of his life before that point. He is taken to Kaer Morhen, the base of the witchers, where he meets a sorceress named Triss Merigold. The castle is attacked by a gang of bandits named Salamandra, led by a criminal known as the Professor, a mage named Savolla who controls a large, praying mantis-like monster, and another mage named Azar Javed. The witchers and the sorceress manage to slay the monster…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Witcher series
The Witcher is the first of 37 entries we hold in the The Witcher series. The next entry was The Witcher: Crimson Trail in 2007. Its critic score of 88 is 6 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update at 100.
How it was received
The Witcher holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 24 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 842 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 60.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 93.3 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.49, that works out to about $0.02 per hour of the main story, or $0.02 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or Athlon 64 +2800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +3000 recommended). Athlon XP series, such as the Athlon XP +2400, is not supported, 1 GB RAM (2 GB RAM recommended) and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX or ATI Radeon X1950 XT or better recommended). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 15GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.49 at GOG, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Witcher launched on 26 October 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 5 cheat entries for The Witcher — 5 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
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The Witcher cheat codes
Enable the console
Added to user.ini, this switches the debug console on.
Open user.ini in the game's documents folder with a text editor, add the line, save with the game closed.
Open the console
Opens the console once user.ini has been edited.
Press the grave key, to the left of 1, during play.
God mode
You take no damage.
Open the console and type the command.
Heal
Refills your health.
Open the console and type the command.
Dlc
Remakes
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