The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has reached its highest concurrent player count on Steam since it launched, following the release of CD Projekt Red's free Remastered edition.
More than 120,000 people were playing the 2015 role-playing game on Steam as GamesIndustry.biz reported the figure, putting it just outside the platform’s ten most-played games of the previous 24 hours.
The tracking site SteamDB records that as a new high for the game, ahead of the three peaks it had previously set. The game reached 92,000 at launch in 2015, then 103,000 in January 2020 when the Netflix Witcher series was at its most popular, and 89,000 in December 2022 around the release of its next-gen update. The new figure clears the 2020 record by roughly 17,000 players.
Netflix confirmed earlier this year that the fifth season of The Witcher will be its last, closing the run of the series that drove the 2020 peak.
The figure counts Steam alone. It does not include players on GOG, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation, Xbox or Switch 2, where the game is also sold, so the total number of people playing the remaster across all platforms is higher than the Steam count.
The Remastered update is free to owners of any existing version of the game and includes the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions at no extra cost. CD Projekt Red has said it brings both visual and gameplay upgrades.
