Witcher 3 Hits Over 70k Concurrent Players Days After the Netflix Show

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With Netflix's version of The Witcher, the video game has seen an increase in popularity with over 70,000 concurrent players on Steam.

The last year of the decade has been riddled with The Witcher news due to not only The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launching as a complete edition on the Nintendo Switch, but Netflix’s live-action take on the show launched on the streaming platform too. We’ve also seen The Witcher 3 land on Xbox Game Pass roughly around the same time as the show hit Netflix, so there’s not really been a moment to breathe without inhaling some form of Geralt of Rivera.

On December 20, The Witcher landed on Netflix as a live-action show with Henry Cavill playing the protagonist. The release seems to have created a surge in popularity once again as the game has been rising the charts on Steam.

On Twitter, video game industry analyst Benji-Sales reported that on December 23, CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had hit a total concurrent player count of over 50,000 players on Steam.

According to Steam Charts, the game when it launched back in May 2015 is shown to have hit over 90,000 concurrent players. Since then the last noticeable spike in players was May and June 2016 when the final DLC, Blood and Wine launched.

The charts have remained in the 20,000-30,000 area after that surge until December 22, 2019, when the peak started growing. By December 26 there were over 70,000 concurrent players jumping on the Steam version of the game. The player count across all available platforms is also anticipated to be much higher.

Additionally, Benji-Sales reported that in the US, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had become the third best-selling game on Steam, sitting beneath Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Jedi: Fallen Order


With the show already being approved for a second series, it’ll be interesting to see if the concurrent player count rises again once it launches on Netflix.



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ZemaPosted:

Not surprised at all this show is wicked good Netflix always does good with their shows I feel like

YhormPosted:

OGTrey079
EvoVIII The game was so much better imo than the tv series. Hope the series gets better as the seasons go on.


The show is ez 0/8 shit flopped hard


#1 one Netflix and introduced a massive audience to the franchise. Okay, lol.

EvoVIIIPosted:

OGTrey079
EvoVIII The game was so much better imo than the tv series. Hope the series gets better as the seasons go on.


The show is ez 0/8 shit flopped hard


Yeah I do think Henry was fine as geralt though but some of the other characters need different actors.

OGTrey079Posted:

EvoVIII The game was so much better imo than the tv series. Hope the series gets better as the seasons go on.


The show is ez 0/8 shit flopped hard

YhormPosted:

Never played Witcher. Watched the series and started to play the game. I am enjoying both very much.

EvoVIIIPosted:

The game was so much better imo than the tv series. Hope the series gets better as the seasons go on.