Player voice · The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

What players love

That an eleven-year-old game still reads as current, and Blood and Wine in particular — long-haul players name the expansion as the high point.

Reviews behind this:

Steam · 377h played · 2 months ago

"I started The Witcher 3 without playing the earlier games and didn’t really know the world or the author. I just jumped in like any other game. But soon I realized how amazing it was. I’ve always been a bit into Slavic culture, and this game is full of it music, environments, history, even the way…"
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Steam · 508h played · 3 months ago

"One of the best mediums ever created in human history for bringing a true fantasy world to life. For me, this game is more than just art — it’s something special."
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Steam · 394h played · 2 months ago

"There is no better game than The Witcher 3. The Blood and Wine DLC is amazing, literally just medieval Italy."
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What frustrates them

The incoming Windows 11 and SSD floor on an eleven-year-old game, the enhanced build's frame drops in cities, and quests that lean on witcher-sense tracking.

Reviews behind this:

Steam · 86h played · 2 months ago

"With the next expansion, the 11 year old main game will no longer support HDDs and Windows 10. This is not OK, the main game should stay playable for everyone who bought it. https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/witcher-3/pc/sp-technical/issue/2973/upcoming-changes-to-minimum-requirements-for-the-wit…"
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Steam · 341h played · 3 months ago

"This is an amazing game dragged down by technical issues. The "enhanced" version can look pretty good but not good enough forgive the abysmal performance and constant crashing. On a 5070TI with DLSS set to "Balanced" on max settings the framerate will randomly go down to single digits in major citie…"
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Steam · 177h played · 1 month ago

"I got bored out of the main quests after 10-20 hours, at one point I felt like I was doing the same thing over and over, and the quests were really boring, especially "Follow the track using your witcher sense" or "Find clues using your witcher sense," it felt like they were just filling the quests…"
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