Our picks, beyond the numbers
5 games like The Witcher 3 we would recommend for different reasons
A contract in The Witcher 3 rarely stays just a contract. You arrive expecting a monster and find a family, a local grudge or a decision with no comfortable answer. Geralt's world gives its people room to be funny, flawed and frightening, and that's as much a part of the appeal as the sword fights. We looked for games that carry one piece of that forward — the stories, the choices, the companions or the world itself.
A couple of these are the obvious places to look for more of Geralt specifically; others come from studios chasing a similar kind of character-driven fantasy in their own way. Here's where we'd send a Witcher 3 player next.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Our first choice for more of Geralt's story
If you're not ready to say goodbye to Geralt, The Witcher 2 is the most natural place to look. Its story pulls him into a conflict between powerful factions, with choices early on that split the entire second act into genuinely different paths through the game — not just different dialogue, but different locations and characters.
We like it for the chance to see familiar faces and politics from an earlier, rougher angle, before CD Projekt Red had the budget and scale of the third game. The writing and character work that made The Witcher 3 so good are already clearly present here.
The world is divided into a handful of distinct areas instead of one continuous landscape, and the combat is noticeably older and stiffer — expect an adjustment period. Come for more Witcher storytelling and difficult choices, not for another enormous open-world journey.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
For companions and a world in trouble
Dragon Age: Inquisition shares The Witcher 3's interest in a troubled fantasy world and the people caught up in it, but gives your companions a far more prominent, personal role throughout — recruiting them, earning their trust, and watching their own arcs play out alongside the main plot.
We'd choose it for players who enjoy conversations, relationships and deciding who to trust as much as the next battle. The approval-and-loyalty systems around your party give those relationships mechanical weight that The Witcher 3's more fixed cast doesn't quite offer.
Instead of following an established character, you create your own Inquisitor and lead a party into battle rather than fighting largely alone. Its large, open regions and party-based combat give it a noticeably different rhythm — think of it as a companion-focused RPG rather than another monster-hunting adventure.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
For a fantasy world to get lost in
Skyrim and The Witcher 3 both offer fantasy worlds full of places worth exploring and quests that can pull you off the road for hours. The difference we find most compelling is the hero at the center of it: Geralt arrives with an established history, relationships and a voice of his own, while Skyrim hands you a blank slate and lets you decide who you are.
We'd point a Witcher 3 player here specifically for that open-ended freedom — building your own character and choosing which guilds, factions and paths to follow, rather than guiding a character whose personality is already written.
That trade-off runs the other way too: Skyrim's dialogue and world reactivity are much simpler than The Witcher 3's branching, consequence-driven writing. Choose Skyrim for the freedom to invent your own adventure, and come back to something like The Witcher 2 if what you actually miss is Geralt's voice and story.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
For a grounded medieval story
Kingdom Come: Deliverance shares The Witcher 3's interest in a richly detailed world and the people living through difficult times, but strips out the monsters and magic entirely in favor of a story set in 15th-century Bohemia. You follow Henry, a blacksmith's son swept up in a conflict far bigger than he is.
We like it for players drawn to the human stories behind a fantasy world's larger events — the politics, grudges and everyday struggles that make Geralt's contracts interesting even without a beast at the end of them.
Its grounded setting and far more demanding approach to combat and survival are a substantial change from Geralt's honed witcher abilities — expect to actually struggle in a sword fight here. Choose it for a historical adventure with real teeth, not for another world of spells and monsters.
Cyberpunk 2077
For another CD Projekt Red story
Cyberpunk 2077 takes you from muddy roads and monster contracts to the neon streets of Night City, but it comes from the same studio as The Witcher 3, and it shows: character writing, side quests that become much more than they first appear, and a city full of people with their own problems.
We'd choose it for the character-driven storytelling and the pleasure of a side job spiraling into something far more personal — the same instinct that made Geralt's contracts worth taking even when the pay wasn't the point.
Its first-person action, futuristic setting and fully customizable protagonist make it a genuinely different experience from following an established character like Geralt. If you need medieval fantasy specifically, look elsewhere; if you want another world full of people and problems worth getting involved in, Night City is worth the trip.
