The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — graphic
AdventureFantasyRPG
🏆 The Game Awards 2015 — Game of the Year

What's in it

Violence graphic & gore
High

Sword-and-crossbow combat against humans and monsters with heavy blood spray, decapitations, and slow-motion killing blows.

Nudity full
High

Full nudity appears in sex scenes and in brothels, and topless figures appear in the world.

Substances player uses or trades
High

Geralt drinks alcohol and brews and drinks toxic combat potions; the narcotic 'fisstech' is dealt and used in the world.

Dark themes graphic
High

The story deals heavily with war atrocities, genocide, racism against nonhumans, child endangerment, domestic abuse, and grief.

Sexual content strong
High

Several optional and story romance scenes show partly explicit sexual encounters between Geralt and other characters.

Language strong
High

Frequent strong profanity such as 'fuck' and 'cunt' throughout dialogue.

Horror & psychological frightening
Moderate

Grotesque monsters, a cursed swamp, disturbed spirits, and a nightmarish infant-like Botchling create frightening moments.

Occult & ritual occult ritual depicted
Moderate

The world features spellcasting, witchcraft, monster-summoning, and dark supernatural rituals as part of its fantasy setting.

Torture depicted
Moderate

Interrogations and villain storylines depict people being beaten, maimed, and tortured on-screen.

Prostitution / sex work depicted
Moderate

Brothels with sex workers are depicted and can be visited in cities like Novigrad.

Suicide & self-harm depicted
Moderate

A major questline can end with a character found hanged, and suicide figures into other tragic outcomes.

Mutilation / body horror depicted
Moderate

Combat produces on-screen dismemberment and decapitation as emphasized finishing blows.

Gambling simulated gambling
Moderate

The card game Gwent, dice poker, and betting on fistfights let the player wager in-game coin.

Crime & lawlessness crime depicted
Low

Theft and murder occur in the world and the player can loot corpses and steal from homes.

Animal combat combat mechanic
Low

Wolves, bears, boars, and other beasts are fought and killed as ordinary combat.

Sexual violence referenced
Low

Rape is referenced in dialogue and lore as part of the setting's wartime brutality.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a single-player open-world fantasy RPG in which you play Geralt, a professional monster hunter searching for his adopted daughter across a war-torn continent. Gameplay mixes bloody sword-and-magic combat, exploration, alchemy, and story-driven quests full of moral choices. Content is aimed at adults: combat is graphically violent with blood, decapitations, and dismemberment; there are depicted sex scenes and full nudity; strong profanity is common; alcohol and a fictional drug appear; and the mature story covers war atrocities, torture, abuse, suicide, and dark supernatural rituals. In-game wagering (the Gwent card game, dice, and fist-fight bets) is present, but there are no real-money purchases and no online or multiplayer features.

How it's framed

The game frames its violence and mature themes through a morally gray lens: Geralt is a paid killer of monsters, but the writing repeatedly asks who the real monsters are, presenting humans as capable of cruelty equal to or worse than the beasts. Choices often have no clean answer and carry lasting consequences, and cruelty, prejudice, and the suffering of war are portrayed as tragic rather than glorified.

Details

Developer
CD PROJEKT RED
Publisher
CD PROJEKT RED
Released
May 18, 2015
Metacritic 93critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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