The Witcher

Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, a legendary monster slayer 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.

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Sep 16, 2008

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About This Game

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:

- An interactive comic book

- D'jinni Adventure Editor

- Two new adventures offering 5+ hours of gameplay

- Official Soundtrack

- “Music Inspired by The Witcher” album

- “Making of” videos

- Official Game Guide

- Two maps of The Witcher's world

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Developer and publisher

Developer:
CD PROJEKT RED
Publisher:
CD PROJEKT RED

Quick facts

Release
Apr 11, 2008: Windows
Apr 5, 2012: Mac
Last updated
May 19, 2026
Storefronts
Steam
Genres
Action and RPG
Tags
Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Fantasy, Combat, and Dark Fantasy
Moods
Story-rich
Social styles
Solo
Demo
Not announced
Price model
Purchase

Languages

Languages
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
English
French
German
Spanish - Spain
Italian

Age Rating & Interactive Elements

ESRB m

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition contains strong language, intense violence, blood and gore, as well as nudity and sexual material.

Content descriptors

Strong Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence, Blood and Gore, Nudity

Support

Controller & Support

Device support

Steam Cloud

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System Requirements

Minimum

Supported OS:
Microsoft® Windows® /XP/Vista
DirectX Version:
DirectX 9.0c (included) or higher
Processor:
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or Athlon 64 +2800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +3000 recommended). Athlon XP series, such as the Athlon XP +2400, is not supported
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX or ATI Radeon X1950 XT or better recommended)
Memory:
1 GB RAM (2 GB RAM recommended)
Sound:
DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card
Hard Drive:
15 GB Free

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