Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Thronebreaker is a single player role-playing game set in the world of The Witcher that combines narrative-driven exploration with unique puzzles and card battle mechanics. This game spins a truly regal tale…
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is an adventure developed by CD Projekt RED, released 23 October 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. It currently starts at $3.99 at GOG.
What Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is an adventure game developed by CD Projekt RED and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The world stands on the verge of chaos, as the tensions between the power-hungry Nilfgaardian Empire and proud Northern Realms grow. Facing an imminent invasion, Meve — war-veteran Queen of Lyria and Rivia — is forced to once again enter the warpath, and set out on a dark journey of destruction and revenge.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 39 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Witcher series
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is the 25th of 37 entries we hold in the The Witcher series. The next entry was The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt + Dark Souls III in 2018. Its critic score of 86 is 4 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update at 100.
How it was received
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 187 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Celeron G1820 | AMD A4-7300, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 | Radeon R7 240. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales launched on 23 October 2018, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn and Assassin's Creed Odyssey. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn, Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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