The Witcher 3’s newly launched Remastered version has dramatically rekindled curiosity within the 11-year-old role-playing recreation, which is at present having fun with its highest concurrent player-count on Steam ever.
As of the time of writing, practically 120,000 individuals are taking part in The Witcher 3 on Steam, making it the ninth most-played recreation on the PC platform. That in fact doesn’t embody numbers from the likes of GOG and the Epic Video games Retailer, the place it is also being offered, nor the gamers on PlayStation, Swap 2, and Xbox.
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In keeping with Steam data-tracking web site SteamDB, that is the very best concurrent player-count The Witcher 3 has ever had – larger than at its launch in 2015 (a excessive of 92K), and better than the sport’s earlier peak of 103K in January 2020, when Netflix’s Witcher present was at its hottest. The opposite notable peak was 89K in December 2022, when the next-gen replace dropped.
With a playerbase of 65 million, there’s a big group to excite, nevertheless it’s a reminder of how a lot pulling-power CD Projekt Crimson’s fantasy RPG has, all the identical. And as America wakes up and downloads the replace, the query is how excessive can the numbers go?
The Remastered version of the Witcher 3 rolls out in the present day, bringing with it an enormous array of upgrades to the way in which it seems and performs. Although as I discovered whereas taking part in The Witcher 3 – Remastered, the adjustments aren’t as fairly as transformative as some may hope, and it is nonetheless very a lot the identical recreation.
Nonetheless, this Remastered replace being free to homeowners of any model of The Witcher 3 – and the sport’s present expansions Hearts of Stone and Blood of Wine being thrown in at no cost as effectively – represents extraordinary game-support and generosity on the a part of CD Projekt Crimson. And it is being achieved to prime the viewers for the arrival of the brand new Witcher 3 growth Songs of the Previous subsequent yr.