The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Reviews

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is ranked in the 100th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Cubed3
Top Critic
4 / 10
Jun 8, 2015

In a game where the action mechanics are roughly 65% of the game's core gameplay, it is important to get these basic parts right and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt tragically fumbles. Good controls are the foundation of a quality game and anyone expecting good action here would be best to just put this white wolf out of his misery and bury him.

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6 / 10.0
Dec 21, 2022

The Witcher 3’s next gen update adds a great new quest, some snazzy armours, and litany of interesting tweaks to the game, but, on PC, it’s undermined by a parade of performance issues.

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Sep 15, 2015

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an amazing single-player action-RPG buried in a mediocre open world game. As much as everyone was wowed by the jump to open world with the third Witcher game, I seriously wish they'd stuck to the formula in their previous games. Sometimes bigger really isn't better.

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May 19, 2015

Early on in the adventure it'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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7.5 / 10.0
Oct 15, 2019

The Witcher 3 is still an astounding game to be celebrated, but even if it's one of the console's considerably better ports, the Nintendo Switch version really isn't the way to experience Wild Hunt.

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8 / 10.0
Oct 16, 2019
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8 / 10.0
Oct 13, 2019

It’s easy to see how players would prefer the convenience of undertaking Geralt’s journey on the go, either from the very beginning or as someone who missed out on Hearts of Stone or Blood and Wine and are craving a way to jump in right away. Switcher 3 is the ultimate fantasy RPG and the ultimate in convenience.

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Jun 12, 2015

While the decidedly average combat and alarming number of technical gremlins are disappointing for a title that's been in development for so long, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt is still a must-buy title for genre fans. The Northern Kingdoms is vast and beautiful setting, packed with unique adventures and touching tales that you'll find away from the beats of the main story. A title to truly lose yourself in.

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Jun 2, 2015

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

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8 / 10
Nov 4, 2015

I've made it pretty clear that it's hardly a flawless game, but that doesn't change the fact that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is something pretty bloody special and you should absolutely play it.

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8 / 10.0
May 12, 2015

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 that may hit some snags along the way but still comes out on top.

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Polygon
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
May 12, 2015

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

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May 12, 2015

Sloppy combat and ongoing optimisation can't quite spoil this dark fantasy adventure, set in a stunning world of blood and black magic.

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Spaziogames
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
May 13, 2015

The Witcher 3 is a titanic work, technically impressive and exceptional from a narrative point of view that, however, is not able to withstand the colossal weight of the expectations that have been created around him.

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8.5 / 10.0
May 24, 2015

The Witcher III has a compelling plot, combined with some old school, complex game systems that encourage exploration, crafting and experimentation.

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NZGamer
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
May 18, 2015

We're still left with a good RPG, but one that's held back somewhat by tedious quest design and an overreliance on sexist cliches.

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8.5 / 10.0
May 12, 2015

The Witcher 3 is a game aiming for highest praise - you simply can't get enough of it. The need to see what happens next kept me glued to the console for many more hours than I had planned. Unfortunately the The Wild Hunt isn't perfect - the number of smaller and bigger issues can surprise (in a bad way, of course). It is an amazing game but right now the amount of bugs is simply too high.

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8.5 / 10.0
May 19, 2015

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 truly great game that rises its head above its own hot water to proudly present a prosperous experience that only the most deliriously expectant could feel shortchanged by.

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8.7 / 10.0
May 26, 2015

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an incredible achievement. It's impossible to list all the positives and highlights. There's a sense of awe and wonder it elicits, from the moment you pick up the controller.

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87 / 100
Jun 9, 2015

Comparison to The Witcher 3 would embarrass almost any RPG. It excels at everything most games suck at, from comic timing to narrative follow-through. It has the most expressive faces, the best drunken banter, the funniest throwaway gags, the most casual sex, and the deftest camera movements. But its best trick is to mold narrative from the materials that games have lately used as a sort of flavorless stuffing. In almost every side-quest and monster-hunting contract you undertake, there are telltale signs of someone at CD Projekt Red actually giving a s***.

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