The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

May 19, 2015

ActionOpen WorldRPG Nintendo SwitchPCPlayStation 5Xbox Series X

Become a professional monster hunter and track down the Child of Prophecy.

Critic Score

92.1

34 critic reviews

User Score

10.0

1 user ratings

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Critic Reviews (34)

Adrian Morales Game Rant May 2015
90.0 /100

Graphics

95.0

Gameplay

92.0

Story

98.0

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on next-gen consoles is the best way to discover or re-discover one of the most celebrated RPGs of the last decade."

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Álvaro Alonso Hobby Consolas May 2015
95.0 /100

"The perfect example of how all next-gen updates should be: visual improvements on all fronts, several graphic modes, playable and QOL changes, a few touches of new content... And more importantly: completely free. The Witcher 3 was already a masterpiece …"

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Aran Suddi TheSixthAxis May 2015
90.0 /100

Graphics

85.0

Gameplay

90.0

Story

78.0

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is easily one of the most engrossing games I&s;ve had the chance to play. The story and characters are well worth the experience alone, and the world expertly draws on the desire to explore with …"

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Arthur Gies Polygon May 2015
80.0 /100

Graphics

78.0

Gameplay

82.0

Story

80.0

"The Witcher 3 is a great game — with some major qualifications"

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Borja Abadie Hobby Consolas May 2015
95.0 /100

"Its superb setting, its very high technical level, its duration and, above all, its ability to surprise the player make it a must. The best reason to buy a new console or a powerful PC."

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Brett Phipps VideoGamer May 2015
90.0 /100

"The Witcher 3 is vast, intriguing, and enthralling."

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Chandler Wood PlayStation LifeStyle May 2015
95.0 /100

Graphics

80.0

Gameplay

95.0

Story

95.0

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is truly an incredible masterpiece. The writing and building of the world alone should be lauded as some of the best in video games. Stories weave in and out of one another surprisingly. The consequences …"

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Chris Carter Destructoid May 2015
80.0 /100

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a huge step up from its predecessor, mostly because it manages to tell a more compelling and personal tale. At the same time, that intimate feel is juxtaposed against a gigantic, sprawling open-world adventure …"

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Chris Shive Hardcore Gamer May 2015
100.0 /100

Graphics

100.0

Gameplay

100.0

Story

100.0

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition takes a nearly-perfect game and makes it better."

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Christian Bognar Attack of the Fanboy May 2015
100.0 /100

"The upgraded edition takes what made the 2015 version so loved and throws it into the new generation with so much care that it feels like a different game while maintaining the backbone of the original. The improvements are executed …"

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Christopher Gates Game Rant May 2015
90.0 /100

Graphics

75.0

Gameplay

68.0

Story

92.0

"&s;The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt&s; is far from perfect, but despite its flaws, Geralt&s;s final adventure is 2015&s;s strongest candidate for Game of the Year so far."

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Chris White God is a Geek May 2015
100.0 /100

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next-gen update makes a great game even better, improving practically every element of the much loved game."

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Daniel Bloodworth Easy Allies May 2015
98.0 /100

"After spending more than 100 hours in The Witcher 3, we&s;re still left with dozens of side quests to complete, enormous tracts of land left to explore, and monsters yet to fight. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a thoughtful, …"

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Emily Speight Attack of the Fanboy May 2015
90.0 /100

"It&s;s a sprawling, ambitious, beautiful representation of a dark fantasy world, and games like this don&s;t come along often. By no means perfect, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt still one of the year&s;s biggest and best releases."

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Erik Kain Forbes May 2015
90.0 /100

Graphics

50.0

Gameplay

50.0

Story

50.0

"All told, I give the game a Buy in my Buy/Hold/Sell ranking. For all its flaws—and I realize that I&s;ve listed many—it is one of the most sprawling, magnificent solo RPGs ever made. It does too little to fix its …"

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Gareth Chadwick TheSixthAxis May 2015
100.0 /100

Graphics

92.0

Gameplay

88.0

Story

73.0

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition is as essential now as it was seven years ago. Whether you&s;re looking to play the game for the first time or have been waiting for this free upgrade (and bonus quest) …"

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Gavin Greene GamesBeat May 2015
88.0 /100

"Playing The Witcher 3 with an eye for grand strategy can be both a densely engrossing and mechanically frustrating, overlong adventure. When played one move at a time, however, Wild Hunt is the supreme alchemical distillation of the role-playing experience. …"

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Gianluca Loggia IGN Italy May 2015
91.0 /100

Graphics

85.0

Gameplay

90.0

Story

92.0

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt isn&s;t perfect (yet?), but it&s;s one of the best written RPG ever."

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Giuseppe Nelva DualShockers May 2015
95.0 /100

"While I ride, fight, smile, cry and love as Geralt of Rivia, I&s;m happy to be a gamer. I truly am."

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James Stephanie Sterling The Jimquisition May 2015
85.0 /100

"Had it not been mired by bizarre lapses in design and a plethora of disturbing problems, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt would be almost bloody perfect. As it stands, CD Projekt Red has still put together something downright delicious. A …"

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Jonathan Barnes TrueAchievements May 2015
100.0 /100

Graphics

96.0

Gameplay

97.0

Story

98.0

"The quality and quantity of the content in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are beyond compare and without peer. It is now the gold standard to which all other RPGs will be held. With hundreds of hours of rich, detailed …"

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Jonathan Leack Game Revolution May 2015
70.0 /100

Graphics

90.0

Gameplay

75.0

Story

65.0

"Early on in the adventure it&s;s easy to feel captivated by the sheer scale of it all, but as its shortcomings come to light the attention that it worked so hard to capture can become lost."

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Josh Hawkins Shacknews May 2015
90.0 /100

Graphics

95.0

Gameplay

85.0

Story

95.0

"The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt is a masterfully written rollercoaster, and though there is a lot to do in the game, I never felt overwhelmed by the Side Quests and optional tasks. CD Projekt Red has done a great …"

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Juan García IGN Spain May 2015
95.0 /100

Graphics

92.0

Gameplay

94.0

Story

93.0

"A unique experience that cannot be missed, becoming a must for lovers of role-playing and swashbuckling games. We will miss you, Geralt."

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Kevin VanOrd GameSpot May 2015
100.0 /100

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is still one of the best games ever made."

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Kimberley Wallace Game Informer May 2015
98.0 /100

Graphics

96.0

Gameplay

98.0

Story

95.0

"With superb storytelling, challenging combat, exciting choices, and unpredictable consequences, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a must-play RPG"

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Kirk Hamilton Kotaku May 2015
100.0 /100

"A hell of a way to spend a few days of your life."

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Matt Whittaker Hardcore Gamer May 2015
100.0 /100

"2015&s;s largest game to date is its best so far, as the marriage of seemingly endless open-world content and engaging storytelling make The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt a superlative experience. From rounds of the in-game card game Gwent to its …"

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Oli Welsh Eurogamer May 2015
100.0 /100

Graphics

96.0

Gameplay

98.0

Story

97.0

"It will last you months, yet not waste your time. Above all, it has a vivid, enduring personality, something that is exceedingly rare among its breed of mega-budget open-world epics (and that will probably be rarer still once Hideo Kojima …"

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Roger Hargreaves Metro GameCentral May 2015
90.0 /100

Graphics

85.0

Gameplay

92.0

Story

94.0

"A colossal achievement in technical terms, with a level of interaction with the game world and its inhabitants that is unsurpassed in modern video games."

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Shaun Prescott PC Gamer May 2015
92.0 /100

Graphics

30.0

Gameplay

30.0

Story

30.0

"A big, beautiful, sprawling action RPG full of rich stories, and suffused with an oppressive darkness."

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Tom Senior PC Gamer May 2015
80.0 /100

Graphics

90.0

Gameplay

75.0

Story

65.0

"Sloppy combat and ongoing optimisation can&s;t quite spoil this dark fantasy adventure, set in a stunning world of blood and black magic."

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Vince Ingenito IGN May 2015
93.0 /100

Graphics

92.0

Gameplay

94.0

Story

78.0

"Massive in size, and meticulously detailed, The Witcher 3 ends Geralt&s;s story on a high note."

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Will Fulton Digital Trends May 2015
80.0 /100

Graphics

92.0

Gameplay

88.0

Story

78.0

"The Witcher 3 is enormously ambitious, and a monumental game that engulfed us from start to finish."

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