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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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
It's a great game, but without the mods to allow meditation anywhere and access to inn chest anywhere, the game get down because of the need to go back on inn and stores to sell the loot and reorganize your items.
GoG is one of the best places to be a member for gamers. I got this game for free and The Witcher 2: Assassains of Kings for $2.49. I played The Witcher III: Wild Hunt on Playsation 4 before ever playing these games.
My suggestion? Buy them all. Even if you're not a RPG enthusiast, as I am, you will at the very least appreciate this series.
Suprisingly fun, if sometimes very aggrovating RPG. This game nails immersion, and has some of the best dialogue I have ever heard/read, the kind of quality that carried over to the other games in the franchise.
The dialogue got plenty of reactions out of me. It was intriguing, funny, "deep", tense and so many other things.
Something that was none of those things except maybe "tense", like your muscles would be if you had some kind of seizure, is the combat and the animations. They're really bad. The animations often look terrible, everyone sort of just stands there like a dork and the camera can go all over the place during dialogue.
The combat is... something. I don't even know. It's just a big mess. Imagine a 3rd person diablo game, except really really bad, that's kinda it. You WILL die because of the system's flaws, many many times. You will get stuck, you will randomly freeze, Geralt will just refuse to draw his weapon. And you will, most likely, get very angry. There is basically a delay between everything Geralt does. Click on an enemy, and he will stare at them for a second, THEN attack. Drink a potion, he will contemplate life a second, and THEN drink it. It is so rough, the fact that it is also easily exploited and that bosses can be endlessly kited around pillars for example, is often welcome.
But, if you can get past that crap (it's kinda hard to). You will find an overall enjoyable RPG, with some really amazing dialogue, characters, monsters, world and story. Like really amazing, pure 10/10 stuff.
It also sets a lot of the ground rules for the rest of the franchise. Playing this will give you a completely different perspective on the other two games. You sort of learn what to focus on, what to try and get enjoyment out of. Playing this has made me enjoy Witcher 3 much, much more for example.
It's also rather long, I have 35,9 hours just from one single playthrough. Where I skipped most of the sidequests, it will take you around 60 hours to actually finish everything, maybe more. And then there is a decent amount of replayability, because you make much more extreme choices with Geralt than in the other two games. If you can bare the combat enough to actually replay it, that is.
I wouldn't describe it as a great game but it did hold my interest despite it's many, many flaws. I did enjoy getting to know characters and world of the Witcher series. It has a unique feel that makes it stand out and make me glad I played it. There are weird stuff though, like the playing cards awarded for sleeping with female characters which felt very juvenile.
You can definitely skip this one, but if you're curious like I was you might find a fun if eurojank experience.
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