Best-in-class story and quests
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“side quests are written better than the main storylines in 90% of other games”
Steam review · 64.1 h played ↗
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%CD PROJEKT RED2015RPG · Adventure · Action
The verdict
The Witcher 3 is a legendary story-driven open-world RPG with great quests and DLC. The new Remastered update is rough, with AMD graphical bugs, crashes and performance drops, so AMD users should wait or roll back.
Great for
Fans of story-driven open-world RPGs who want deep quests, memorable characters and huge DLC
Main risk
The mandatory Remastered update brings crashes, graphical glitches and big FPS drops
What changed in the last 30 days
226 recent reviews
Most recent reviews are negative and target the Remastered update: AMD graphical corruption, crashes, FPS drops and lost saves. A few players report fixes via new drivers or patches, so things may improve.
226 recent reviews
What players love
Vast, beautiful, living world
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“I got what is probably the richest game world ever”
Steam review · 69.5 h played ↗
Excellent DLC expansions
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“both DLCs (Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine) are basically full-length masterpieces on their own”
Steam review · 64.1 h played ↗
Huge content and high replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“this game beats almost all recent games in terms of replayability, ingame content, quests, story”
Steam review · 133.1 h played ↗
Gwent is a great minigame
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“It's astonishing that Gwent comes with an entire open world RPG as a side quest”
Steam review · 25 h played ↗
Generous free Complete Edition and remaster
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“a major expansion that adds a new zone, 20+ hours of content, a major visual upgrade, new animations and overall improvements?... For free?”
Steam review · 161.6 h played ↗
What players complain about
Poor performance and FPS drops after remaster
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“With those same settings, I’m getting 20–30 FPS at best, with it constantly dropping below that.”
Steam review · 81.1 h played ↗
Graphical glitches and broken lighting, worst on AMD
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“9070xt and everything is black - smoke, fire, effects, grass, Geralt's hair.”
Steam review · 267.5 h played ↗
Remaster crashes and won't launch
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Start the game with a chnace to crash. Make new save and skip the intro for a crash.”
Steam review · 100.4 h played ↗
Remaster changes art style and feels worse
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Remastered traded that aspect with photo-realisitc lighting pipeline, which doesn't sit well with game.”
Steam review · 135.2 h played ↗
Lost or broken saves and reset settings
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Remaster DELETED MY WHOLE library of save backups accumulated over months.”
Steam review · 478.5 h played ↗
Mandatory update and higher system requirements
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“The remaster being mandatory and not optional is actually a stupid idea.”
Steam review · 157 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Verified
Minimum
OS64-bit Windows 11
ProcessorCore i5-8400 / Ryzen 5 2600
Memory12 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX 1660 / Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB / Arc A580
Storage60 SSD GB available space
Recommended
OS64-bit Windows 11
ProcessorIntel Core i7 8700K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsRTX 2060 Super / AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT / Intel Arc B580
Storage60 SSD GB available space
OS64-bit Windows 11
ProcessorCore i5-8400 / Ryzen 5 2600
Memory12 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX 1660 / Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB / Arc A580
Storage60 SSD GB available space
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