The Witcher 3‘s newly launched Remastered version has dramatically rekindled curiosity within the 11-year-old role-playing sport, which is at present having fun with its highest concurrent player-count on Steam ever.
As of the time of writing, practically 120,000 persons are enjoying The Witcher 3 on Steam, making it the ninth most-played sport on the PC platform. That after all doesn’t embody numbers from the likes of GOG and the Epic Video games Retailer, the place it is also being bought, nor the gamers on PlayStation, Change 2, and Xbox.
In accordance 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 neighborhood to excite, nevertheless it’s a reminder of how a lot pulling-power CD Projekt Pink’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 as we speak, bringing with it an unlimited array of upgrades to the best way it seems to be and performs. Although as I discovered whereas enjoying The Witcher 3 – Remastered, the adjustments aren’t as fairly as transformative as some would possibly hope, and it is nonetheless very a lot the identical sport.
Nonetheless, this Remastered replace being free to homeowners of any model of The Witcher 3 – and the sport’s current expansions Hearts of Stone and Blood of Wine being thrown in without spending a dime as nicely – represents extraordinary game-support and generosity on the a part of CD Projekt Pink. And it is being completed to prime the viewers for the arrival of the brand new Witcher 3 growth Songs of the Previous subsequent 12 months.
