The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition is a comprehensive release that includes the base game, both major expansions (Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine), and all free DLCs. It has been issued in multiple…

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Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy Open world

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition is an adventure developed by CD Projekt RED, released 29 August 2016 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition is

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition is an adventure game developed by CD Projekt RED and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on REDengine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt concludes the story of the witcher Geralt of Rivia, the series' protagonist, whose story to date has been covered in the previous installments. Geralt's new mission comes in dark times as the mysterious and otherworldly army known as the Wild Hunt invades the Northern Kingdoms, leaving only blood soaked earth and fiery ruin in its wake; and it seems the Witcher is the key to stopping their cataclysmic rampage.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Witcher series

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition is the 23rd of 37 entries we hold in the The Witcher series. The next entry was Gwent: The Witcher Card Game in 2018. Its critic score of 88 is 6 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update at 100.

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How it was received

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 92, across 193 votes.

What it launched against

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition launched on 29 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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Quick answers

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When did The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition come out?

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition was released on 29 August 2016 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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