If you’re sick of games providing you with simple black and white, good and bad choices, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt bucks that trend in nearly every turn. Not only is the dialogue and performances fantastic, but the choices and situations you’re put in are genuinely interesting and difficult. The writing here is really what sets The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt apart from other open-world RPGs. As a Witcher, you hunt monsters, solve mysteries, and often get dragged into political and personal troubles despite your best efforts. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt benefits from being based on the established world and lore of a novel series but also stands on its own since it doesn’t adhere to the plot but rather expands upon it. There are nearly endless amounts of secrets, treasures, monsters, quests, and side activities to partake in outside of your main quest. The scale of this game isn’t just in the scope of how much space there is to explore, either. It is not only a graphical showpiece, even holding up very well over five years later, but also set in one of the largest fantasy open worlds ever seen. For the studio’s third game ever developed, the level of quality this game reached is almost too good to believe. Starting off with a recent title that the PC community has only grown more fond of over time is the pinnacle of CD Projekt Red’s Witcher trilogy The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The best RPG games you can play right now.
