The homeland of the witcher
When it comes to worlds where the local population doesn’t hold back and sometimes curses like a trooper, alongside the Piranha Bytes games and the Kingdom Come series, the Witcher trilogy can’t be missing.
While the first two games from CD Projekt RED were good but by no means outstanding exercises, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (plus DLCs Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine) clearly belongs among the most successful and best games of all time.
Still a much-played game:
Although the kingdoms and the free city of Novigrad offer less sandbox and more backdrop than Kingdom Come 2, they compensate for this through their enormous detail and stunning graphics. When do you get cities where life actually pulsates on every street? Well, maybe still in Cyberpunk 2077, also from CD Projekt RED.
The adventure of Geralt also shines through many of the side stories and fates, which sometimes provide fun and sometimes induce a lump in the throat. Here, nothing is simply black or white. There are no clear good and bad. Everything is more complicated than that and thus feels more relatable and accessible. This open world leaves no one completely cold.
By the way, not only The Witcher 4 is in development, but also a remake of the first part. That could be a great opportunity to revisit the beginnings of the trilogy in a modern guise. Fingers crossed that it works out!
Next, we continue with the Skyrim.
