The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt cover art

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

2015 · CD Projekt Red · ~55h to finish

Combat that yields immediately to a difficulty slider, wrapped around a preparation system the game quietly assumes you will ignore.

rpgactionexplorationPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMetacritic 93
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty3.2GENTLE

Relaxed. Failure is rare and cheap.

Price on Steam

$49.99

USD · United States · checked 1h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Strategy
3.8
Grind
3.6
Reaction
3.6
Learning Curve
2.8
Obscurity
2.4
Execution
2.1
Punishment
2.0
Puzzle
1.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Obscurity drops 0.6 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Punishment drops 0.5 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.1 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 6% · ~3hStrategy

    the first contract monster, which assumes you read the bestiary entry

    35
  2. 50% · ~30hStrategy

    the mid-game slump when you follow the story instead of the level numbers

    14

Assists & accessibility

0/6 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]Four levels, changeable mid-game except on Death March permadeath.
  • Save anywhere [unsourced]

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

VISION

  • Scalable UI & text [unsourced]Font and HUD scaling added in the next-gen update.

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

GUIDANCE

  • Objective markers [unsourced]Witcher Senses highlight every interactive object on demand.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A large open-world action RPG about a monster hunter for hire, with a signs-and-alchemy combat system and level-gated quests spread across three regions.

Where to go from here

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