The Witcher (2007) - Player Count, Cast and Crew, News

About

On Steam, 89% of 83,167 player reviews are positive (Very Positive). 615 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 1,192 in the last 30 days. It is Playable on Steam Deck.

Based on the novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher follows Geralt of Rivia, an amnesiac witcher (problem solver and slayer of monsters) whose home, the Kaer Morhen citadel, is besieged by an organization called the Salamandra, who steal their valuable potions and get away. Throughout the game, Geralt must resolve people's moral dilemmas, connect the dots of his past and track down the Salamandra.

Story

The game begins when Geralt of Rivia, one of a few remaining "witchers" – traveling monster hunters for hire, gifted with unnatural powers, is transported to the witcher stronghold of Kaer Morhen by fellow witchers who had discovered him unconscious in a field. Geralt remembers almost nothing of his life before that point. He is taken to Kaer Morhen, the base of the witchers, where he meets a sorceress named Triss Merigold. The castle is attacked by a gang of bandits named Salamandra, led by a criminal known as the Professor, a mage named Savolla who controls a large, praying mantis-like monster, and another mage named Azar Javed. The witchers and the sorceress manage to slay the monster and kill Savolla, but the Professor and Azar manage to escape with the mutagens that genetically alter the witchers. After curing Triss of the wounds she received while fighting Javed, Geralt and the rest of the witchers head off in different directions in order to find information on Salamandra.

What is happening now

The Witcher is a fantasy RPG originally released in 2007 that launched the series on PC. The franchise has remained active across games and television, though recent discussion centers on significant changes ahead. CD Projekt Red is currently developing a remake that will expand the original game into a full open-world experience - a shift that has prompted debate among those involved with the earlier title. The original's lead story designer has expressed concerns about how open-world design will affect the project's pacing and overall scope, suggesting the structural change carries meaningful implications for how the game will play. Meanwhile, Netflix's television adaptation has reportedly been pushed back, with the final season now expected in 2027.

More in the The Witcher series

All 7 games in order

The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

2015 · 130 stories

The Witcher: Adventure Game

2014

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

2011

From the people behind The Witcher

shared cast and crew

Dying Light

2015 · Paweł Błaszczak

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Cast and crew

2 credits

Crew

Media

Watch trailer 1

Releases

Platform

Date

PC (Microsoft Windows)

October 26, 2007

Mac

October 26, 2007

First release date; per-platform dates are not in the database for this game yet.

PC and Steam Deck

Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable runs, but may need some tweaks

Minimum

Supported OS

Microsoft® Windows® /XP/Vista

DirectX Version

DirectX 9.0c (included) or higher

Processor

Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or Athlon 64 +2800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +3000 recommended). Athlon XP series, such as the Athlon XP +2400, is not supported

Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX or ATI Radeon X1950 XT or better recommended)

Memory

1 GB RAM (2 GB RAM recommended)

Sound

DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card

Hard Drive

15 GB Free

Requirements and Deck status as listed on Steam, checked Oct 28, 2026.