The Witcher is a role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world where moral ambiguity reigns. Shattering the line between good and evil, the game emphasizes story and character development, while incorporating a tactically-deep, real-time combat system.
Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, and...
The Witcher is a role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world where moral ambiguity reigns. Shattering the line between good and evil, the game emphasizes story and character development, while incorporating a tactically-deep, real-time combat system.
Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, and get caught in a web of intrigue woven by forces vying for control of the world. Make difficult decisions and live with the consequences in a game that will immerse you in an extraordinary tale like no other.
KEY FEATURES
GERALT OF RIVIA: A ONE-OF-A-KIND PROTAGONIST
Take on the role of Geralt of Rivia: a charismatic swordmaster and professional monster slayer.
Choose from over 250 special abilities, combat skills and magical powers to build a character best suited to your style of play.
ORIGINAL FANTASY WORLD DRAWN FROM LITERATURE
Enter a harsh fantasy world inspired by the writings of renowned Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, where nothing is truly black or white, right or wrong.
NON-LINEAR STORYLINE
Immerse yourself in an epic narrative full of turns, twists and ambiguous moral decisions which have real impact on the storyline.
Accomplish quests in a variety of ways and see how the narrative culminates in one of three different endings depending on your actions.
STUNNING TACTICAL ACTION
Engage in elaborate, yet intuitive real-time combat based on real medieval sword-fighting techniques.
Battle using six combat styles, dozens of potions, complex alchemy system, modifiable weapons and powerful magic which all add tactical depth to the fluid real-time experience.
Motion capture performed by medieval fighting experts at Frankfurt's renowned Metric Minds studio, resulting in 600 spectacular and authentic in-game combat animations.
ABOUT THE WITCHER: ENHANCED EDITION
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition takes all of the acclaimed gameplay that garnered the original game more than 90 industry awards and introduces a number of gameplay and technical improvements.
Superior dialogue and cutscenes: Over 5000 rewritten and re-recorded lines of dialogue in English, completely redone German language version, as well as over 200 new gesture animations create a more consistent experience and make characters behave more believably in dialogue and cutscenes.
Enhanced inventory: A separate sack for alchemy ingredients, as well as a simple sort-and-stack function streamline item organization and usage.
Technical improvements: Numerous technical enhancements feature greatly reduced loading times, improved stability, combat responsiveness, faster inventory loading, an option to turn auto-saving on or off, and more.
Character differentiation system: The system randomizes the appearance of dozens of in-game models in order to add more variety to monsters and NPCs.
The Witcher Enhanced Edition comes with these bonus items:
manual
artbook
wallpapers
game guide
maps
The Witcher calendar
The Witcher story
music inspired by The Witcher (MP3)
soundtrack (MP3)
avatars
behind the scenes
creator interviews (Atari)
creator interviews (CD Projekt RED)
music video
music inspired by The Witcher (FLAC)
soundtrack (FLAC)
manual (German)
game guide (German)
manual (Russian)
manual (Italian)
manual (Polish)
game guide (Italian)
game guide (Polish)
Digital Comic (App)
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What improvements we made to this game:
Windows Version Update (13 November 2024)
Added DirectX to dependencies, ensuring proper compatibility with required libraries
Set core affinity to the first 2 CPU cores, improving performance on modern systems
Validated stability
Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
Update 1.5 (A) (22 March 2017)
Added support for Cloud Saves in GOG Galaxy 1.2 and newer
The good: Graphics. Soundtrack. Decent voice acting. Level-up system. Alchemy.
The bad: Repetitive, boring combat system. Slow-advancing plot. Could have been better written.
The ugly: Will not run on newer machines without a workaround and file, both not included with the game. GOG, please fix this.
Final thoughts: Ultimately, what really put me off was the combat system. I'm just glad I got the game with a massive discount.
The combat is the first thing people point to in this game, whether they love or hate it. I personally didn't mind it that much, but I can see how other people would. It feels really boring, more like a chore than anything else. It's also difficult to tell what's going on in terms of dodging, parrying, or other moves because the animations just look odd.
My personal least favorite part of this game has got to be the voice acting and dialogue. It is terrible. Nothing took me out of the game faster than the cheesy, lame dialogue that is consistent throughout the entire game. Even Geralt, especially Geralt sometimes, just says some really stupid stuff.
Though cheesy dialogue is something you can work past, the other problem I encountered was that it made things really hard to understand as a native english speaker. I would make choices and choose dialogue options that ended up being the exact opposite of what I thought they were because of awkward tones during conversations and because of bad writing for the dialogue choices. In an RPG I think it's important to make it clear what the context of the choice and what I'm choosing to say.
The last gripe I have is that there are 3 armor sets in the game, two of which look the same, and a few swords, some of which also look the same. That's pretty boring for an RPG that can last 40-50 hours if you go slowly, which I did.
The one thing that I did like about the game is the preparation. It felt awesome to get a monster contract, study that monster, meditate and make all the proper potions, oils, and bombs, and then choose my combat style when fighting it. Something about that felt really satisfying and drew me into the world of being a witcher.
In summary, I think the first game just suffers from a lack of polish. If they ever remake this game and give it the star treatment, i think it could be a phenomenal game, but as it stands, the execution is just too poor for me, so I won't be playing it again.
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I am currently replaying it (and also reading the books) in inticipation of the Netflix series. I had forgotten how amazing the game is and am glad I decided to replay it.
The story is great. The characters are deep. And the graphics are pretty solid for a game of its age. I highly recommend this game.
Unparalleled by any RPG game. One of the most exciting and interesting games you will ever play.
Romance 5 stars, action 5 stars story: saving your baby girl " although grown up " 5 stars !
If you like RPG's and you didn't play it you are committing a crime !
Wow! What a game! Once you have adepted to the unusual, but unique combat-system, you will find yourself in a superb, challenging and rich Narration, that is quite rare in RPGs.
The visual appearance is great too - not because of the best engine or any extraordinary effects, but because of the lovingly detailed atmospheric surroundings underlined by a complex orchestral sound.
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