The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered modernizes the acclaimed role-playing game with a range of upgrades and enhancements. Become monster slayer for hire Geralt of Rivia and journey across a dark fantasy open world in an epic quest to find your adopted daughter Ciri.

Verdict

Verdict coming soon: the jury is still reading

Buy, Wait, and Skip land in the next pass. Nothing on this card can be bought.

Player sentiment

Player sentiment is from Steam (PC) reviews.

All time

96.5%

896,491 reviews

12 months

92.1%

62,826 reviews

90 days

87.1%

22,406 reviews

30 days

78.5%

10,287 reviews

Declining-10.2 pts versus the previous 90 days

Review history

Bars are review volume. The line is the positive percentage. Periods under 10 reviews are faded.

What players are saying

Positive

IF YOU WANT TO PLAY PRE-REMASTERED VERSION: 1. Right-click the game in your library. 2. Click "Properties". 3. Go into "Game Versions and Betas". 4. Choose version you want (original, next-gen, or remastered). 5. Download and play. CDPR didn't take anything away, you just need to manually pick the version you want in the Steam settings.
2h 21m played at review · 29 Sept 2026
I spent 5 dollars on this, I got what is probably the richest game world ever, amazing quests and side quests, beautiful character arcs, a huge expansion with dozens of hours worth of base game and DLC stories and exploration. As if that wasn't enough, today I got a massive remaster for free, with a significant overhaul. I don't think I've ever had 4.99$ go this far in my life, best money spent ever. Keep it up CDPR!
69h 32m played at review · 29 Sept 2026
I heard about the game's remaster and thought it would be a great time to play the DLCs in the new version for the first time, but I couldn't find the two DLCs on the Steam store. [h3] Turns out I got both DLCs for FREE [/h3], all because I purchased the base game back in 2021! It feels like robbery, but I'm the one doing the robbing, and I don't know how to feel about it
63h 8m played at review · 28 Sept 2026
great game. and to all the negative reviews complaining about the remaster being forced, go into properties, game versions & betas, then click on classic or next gen (whichever you prefer). you idiots should really actually check the very well known game versions tab that almost every game has before coming in and crying about a non issue
5h played at review · 29 Sept 2026

Negative

ummm i dont know about anyone else but sense the remaster just getting blackness everywhere water black and walls keep turning black 9070xt amd cant fight stuff with black walls everywhere
3h 3m played at review · 29 Sept 2026
Literally my favourite game of all time but the remastered is completely broken. Seems to be an AMD issue. Performance for me is flawless on Ultra settings 4k highest fps but the game looks aweful. Grass is black, colours are flashing, shadows look bad. Overall its worse in every way. I've tried every setting to see if it changes anything but nothing helps.
157h 6m played at review · 29 Sept 2026
40fps on a 4090 at 2k res with raytracing on and pathtracing off without dlss is crazy work. i can get 70-80 fps on cyberpunk with the same settings and that game looks 10x better
588h 24m played at review · 29 Sept 2026
The Witcher 3 is one of my favorite games of all time and I've been looking forward to this remaster ever since they announced it for a full PC playthrough. Unfortunately, I have to say The Witcher 3 : Remastered on PC at the moment, is an absolute disaster of a release with many features either broken or not working at all. No amount of cutting edge hardware can brute force bad optimization and this release is the perfect example of it. Getting the same performance with and without Path Tracing Lol. Anyone who understands tech will tell you how absurd that sounds. My performance should have tripled without Path Tracing but instead I am getting the exact same performance for two drastically different looking graphics setting. Relying on frame gen to wheelchair you past 60fps on an RTX 4090 is crazy business. They basically took an 11 year old game that looked perfectly fine in the first place, and made it so it doesn't run on the latest hardware 11 years later. I guess now it really is a modern game since modern games don't run well either. The only copium/hopium I can gather from this is that at least CDPR are ditching this engine for good after next year's DLC. But it's not like Unreal Engine 5 is the gold standard for game optimization either 😂 Can't complain much about a FREE upgrade but you know you've ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up real bad when people are mad about something you gave them for FREE.
33h 21m played at review · 29 Sept 2026