The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has set another Steam concurrent player record, reaching 137,724 players according to SteamDB figures reported by Eurogamer and Esports.gg. Eurogamer dated the peak to Sunday, October 4.
The figure is nearly 20,000 above the game’s previous high of about 120,000, set after CD Projekt Red’s Remastered edition was released on September 29. Before the remaster, the game’s Steam peaks were 92,000 at its 2015 launch and 103,000 in January 2020, when Netflix’s The Witcher series was popular, Eurogamer reported. Esports.gg put the new peak at roughly 33 percent above the 2020 figure.
Steam’s count excludes console players. Eurogamer cited Alinea Analytics analyst Rhys Elliott, who said that a day after the Remastered edition’s release the game reached 2.4 million daily active users across PC, PlayStation and Xbox, a figure that did not include Switch. Elliott also said the game sold another 130,000 copies across those three platforms on September 30, its best single day since its first $3.99 Steam discount in summer 2024, and that lifetime sales now exceed 66 million copies.
The Remastered edition is a free upgrade for existing owners, and Esports.gg reported that base-game owners also receive the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions at no extra cost. It launched on Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with changes to visuals, performance, animations, combat, movement and the skill tree. On PC, the Steam release is a 60.1 GB initial download and adds path tracing along with DLSS 4.5, FSR 4 and XeSS upscaling support.
Eurogamer reported that CD Projekt Red is rolling out hotfixes for lighting and other issues. Esports.gg listed further planned work: PS5 performance, additional visual changes, fixes for console voice audio, wider Ukrainian localization on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and a collaboration with mod.io to bring more mods to every platform.
A third expansion, Songs of the Past, is scheduled for 2027 on the same four platforms. Esports.gg reported that it is set in a new region called Letten and adds a weapon called the chain.
