Every The Witcher game, ranked
All 3 The Witcher games we hold, spanning 2008 to 2015: 3 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 1,063,198 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (GamingPickz Score 8.9), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut (2008) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut gives the most score per dollar right now.
The The Witcher games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 3 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
3 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 3 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- Multi-platform
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
3 best The Witcher games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Best for: Players who need accessibility options that actually exist
8.9GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at a glance Released 2015 Studio CD Projekt RED Player sentiment 97% positive of 885,535 Critics 93/100 Price $49.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 50 GB Accessibility 9 declared features Raw 97% shrinks to 97.0 on 885,535 reviews, then blends with the 93 critic aggregate, giving 8.9.
What the data supports- 97% positive across 885,535 reviews is a strong signal at that volume, where a few enthusiasts cannot move the number.
- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Declares 9 accessibility features, well above the catalogue norm.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition
Best for: Players who need accessibility options that actually exist
8.2GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceThe Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition at a glance Released 2012 Studio CD PROJEKT RED Player sentiment 90% positive of 90,315 Critics 88/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size Not stated Accessibility 9 declared features Raw 90% shrinks to 90.0 on 90,315 reviews, then blends with the 88 critic aggregate, giving 8.2.
What the data supports- Declares 9 accessibility features, well above the catalogue norm.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
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The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
8.1GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceThe Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut at a glance Released 2008 Studio CD PROJEKT RED Player sentiment 89% positive of 87,348 Critics 86/100 Price $9.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 8 declared features Raw 89% shrinks to 89.0 on 87,348 reviews, then blends with the 86 critic aggregate, giving 8.1.
What the data supports- Declares 8 accessibility features, well above the catalogue norm.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received The Witcher game we can score is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at 8.9. The lowest is The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut at 8.1, a 0.8-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
How the series scored over time
GamingPickz Score against release year, 2008 to 2015. The later entries score higher than the earlier ones: the series has been trending up.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut at $9.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the The Witcher entries on Steam:
- Verified: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Playable: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut
- Unsupported: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition
Platforms across the series
Where the 3 The Witcher games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 3 of 3 |
| PlayStation | 1 of 3 |
| Xbox | 1 of 3 |
| Nintendo | 1 of 3 |
The The Witcher series, game by game
Every The Witcher game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2008
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. (Steam)
- 2012
A time of untold chaos has come. Mighty forces clash behind the scenes in a struggle for power and influence. The Northern Kingdoms mobilize for war. But armies on the march are not enough to stop a bloody conspiracy... (Steam)
Plot
Story The player controls Geralt of Rivia , who is one of the few remaining witchers – enhanced and trained humans with special powers who hunt monsters for a living. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings contains different paths and storylines , along with multiple endings. Prologue At the start of the game, Geralt is in prison under suspicion of assassinating Foltest, the king of Temeria. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Critical reception Reception The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings received "generally favorable" reviews. It has won over 50 awards for best graphics, best adaptation or use of a license, best story, best PC game, best RPG, and Game of the Year. During the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards , the Academy of Interactive Arts Sciences nominated The Witcher 2 for " Role-Playing/Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year ". (Wikipedia)
- 2015
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world. (Steam)
Plot
Setting The game is set in the Continent, a fictional fantasy world based on Slavic folklore . It is surrounded by parallel dimensions and extra-dimensional worlds. Humans , elves , dwarves , monsters, and other creatures co-exist on the Continent, but non-humans are often persecuted for their differences in the northern realms. (Wikipedia)
Characters
Doug Cockle reprised his role as Geralt of Rivia in the game. See also: List of The Witcher characters The main character is the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia ( Doug Cockle ), a monster hunter trained since childhood in combat, tracking, alchemy and magic, and made stronger, faster and resistant to toxins by mutagens. He is aided by his lover, the powerful sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg ( Denise Gough ), his former love interest Triss Merigold (Jaimi… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Critical reception Reception The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt received "universal acclaim" for the PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S versions, and "generally favorable reviews" for the Switch version, according to review aggregator Metacritic . Critics agreed that it was an ambitious action role-playing game which was grand in scale, but marred by technical difficulties and a lack of innovation. GameSpot and Eurogamer gave the game… (Wikipedia)
The Witcher, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
The Witcher vs other series
How The Witcher stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many The Witcher games are there?
We hold 3 The Witcher games in the catalogue, released between 2008 and 2015. 3 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which The Witcher game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt rates highest at 8.9. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the The Witcher games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2008 to 2015. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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