The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
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...
Action RPGOpen WorldRole-Playing
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- Released
- 2011
- Developer
- CD Projekt RED
- Platforms
- 2 systems
- Critics
- 88
- Steam Deck
- unsupported
- Download
- Not stated
What is The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings?
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...
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 17 May 2011 |
|---|---|
| Developer | CD Projekt RED |
| Publisher | CyberFront, Spike Chunsoft, Warner Bros. Games |
| Platforms | PC, Xbox 360 |
| Genres | Action RPG, Open World, Role-Playing |
| Languages | 14 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q917272, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
- Color Alternatives
- Camera Comfort
Hearing
- Custom Volume Controls
- Stereo Sound
- Surround Sound
Input
- Partial Controller Support
- Playable without Timed Input
Difficulty
- Adjustable Difficulty
- Save Anytime
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | partial support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | unsupported |
| Download size | Not stated |
| Add-on content | 1 DLC listed |
| Age gate | 17+ |
Content descriptors
- Some nudity or sexual content
- Frequent violence or gore
- General mature content
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings worth it?
90% of 90,312 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $19.99 on Steam, and critics score it 88/100.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings? How long to beat it
Total play time for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is about 56.7 hours to do everything, and around 24.2 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 24.2h | 1,157 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 34.8h | 2,645 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 56.7h | 483 |
At its current price of $19.99, beating the main story works out to about $0.83 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings system requirements
The minimum requirements from The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 1.5 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel 2.2 GHz Dual-Core |
| Graphics | GeForce 8800 (512 MB) · runs on a low-end GPU |
Can your PC run it? Check The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings against your exact GPU, CPU and RAM.
Where The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings sits on the grid
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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.
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- 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.
Estimated sales for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
These are estimates, not reported figures. CD Projekt RED has not published unit sales for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 90,312 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $19.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If CD Projekt RED publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $19.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
What readers say about The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Crashes and freezes49 of 300 (16%)
game keeps crashing on modern hardware.
Steam review, 4 August 2026 · 3 hours played · 5 readers marked it helpfulSad because of how replayable this game, and choices matting more or being more important when it constantly glitching or crashing it's not fun at all.
Steam review, 15 May 2026 · 60 hours played · 5 readers marked it helpful - Will not launch or install13 of 300 (4%)
had to turn off a thread to run, wont run on full threads.
Steam review, 4 August 2026 · 3 hours played · 5 readers marked it helpfulOne of them is that the game doesn't open on newer processors.
Steam review, 19 April 2026 · 93 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful - Performance and stutter9 of 300 (3%)
Some static assets drop ~70 frames during cutscenes, high-action combat scenes dropped me below 60 fps occasionally.
Steam review, 20 April 2025 · 5 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpful[h2]And Then There's Performance[/h2] I'm also stuck around 60 FPS, which is pretty strange considering the age of the game and how it looks.
Steam review, 14 August 2026 · 5 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful
A further 14 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Common questions about The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
What platforms is The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings on?
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is available on PC, Xbox 360. It first released in 2011.
How much does The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings cost?
$19.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings?
90% of 90,312 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
What is the Metacritic score for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings?
88 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.
Does The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings as unsupported on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.
Who made The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings?
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was developed by CD Projekt RED and published by CyberFront, Spike Chunsoft, Warner Bros. Games.
Is The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings worth it in 2026?
90% of 90,312 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $19.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings on sale?
Not at the moment. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is at its $19.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.
What are the system requirements for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings?
At minimum, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings needs 1.5 GB RAM, a Intel 2.2 GHz Dual-Core, a GeForce 8800 (512 MB), from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.
How long does it take to beat The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings?
about 24.2 hours for the main story, 34.8 hours with the main extras, 56.7 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.