There's a full day-night cycle which can be advanced by meditating at a campfire, and alchemy and some light weapon crafting which should be pretty familiar to anyone who's played either of the other games. The combat is quite basic and repetitive, basically consisting of switching between 3 stances (fast, strong, group), casting signs, and timing your clicks between animations to do combos, but it honestly grew on me as I played and was kinda fun in its own way. In terms of actual gameplay, it's admittedly pretty clunky. This led to many 'aha' moments where I understood references from the 3rd game and got to see how things unravelled. This made the first game very satisfying to play as the story required no prior knowledge and everything was properly explained and fully introduced for the first time. I played Witcher 3 without any prior knowledge of the books or games and found it a bit hard to follow at times when I was clearly meant to know a lot more than I did. The story is the main selling point of the game and I personally enjoyed it more than Witcher 3's. I figured I should address this before getting into things. This promotion has been on for over a year now but it isn't advertised. All you have to do is add Gwent to your account (which is free) and subscribe to their newsletter here, and you'll receive a 100% discount for The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. So here's my guide to playing The Witcher in 2020!įirst off, if you missed the free GOG giveaway about a week ago, they're still secretly giving the game away for free as a promotion for Gwent. I played through the first Witcher game about a month ago and spent a lot of time figuring out what mods to use and thought I'd share my list here as I couldn't find a comprehensive guide anywhere ( PC Gamer has a pretty good one but they missed a few and some of them interfered with the game a bit too much for me).

Witcher 1 mods reddit