The Witcher 3’s Gwent Is Finally Getting A Physical Release

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is comfortably one of the best games of the last decade, and for some people it’s in the running to be among the best games of all time. A game so good that there’s a smaller game within it that many of you wish wasn’t confined to your adventures on the Continent. I am, of course, talking about Gwent, and I have very good news for those of you who have been waiting the better part of a decade for the card game to manifest in the real world.

As first reported by Eurogamer, almost ten years after CD Projekt Red introduced the world to Gwent via The Witcher 3, the popular in-game card game is getting a physical release. The real-life version of Gwent is being created by British tabletop specialists Hachette Boardgames, the team behind Ghost Adventure, Imagician, and various other board games, and is an officially licensed Witcher product since it has received the full backing of CDPR.

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This is no watered-down version of Gwent either. The physical version will include more than 400 cards and a playmat to accurately replicate what it feels like to be Geralt playing it at a tavern on your very own tabletop. The listing for Gwent is already up on Hachette’s website, although you don’t seem to be able to place pre-orders just yet. It costs £44 ($57) and is expected to be released during Q3 2025. That means we could be sitting around playing Gwent for real by this time next year.

Gwent Is Finally Getting A Physical Release

Better Fire Up Wild Hunt And Reacquaint Yourself

It’s a little shocking that it has taken this long for a physical edition of Gwent to become a reality. The card game ranks among some of the very best in-game tabletop games ever created and since it only uses cards and a playmat, making a real-life version has always felt like it would be a surefire home run for CDPR that would be relatively easy to pull off.

In the Witcher studio’s defense, it has had its hands full. Once its developers had finished working on The Witcher 3 and its DLC, it moved on to Cyberpunk 2077. A lot of extra work was needed to fix that game and then it moved on to Phantom Liberty. We also now know that it’s all hands on deck for The Witcher 4 which the studio recently promised will be bigger and better than its predecessor and Cyberpunk. I’m not sure where there would have been time to pull a physical version of a card game out of The Witcher 3 amid all that, so CDPR was likely over the moon when Hachette offered to head up the project.

One of the most critically acclaimed RPGs in recent history, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt sees Geralt searching for Ciri of Cintra. However, he’s not the only one looking — the pair must also contend with the Wild Hunt, supernatural beings of great power. CD Projekt added two expansion packs, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, and brought an enhanced version of the game to modern consoles in late 2022.

Released

May 19, 2015

OpenCritic Rating

Mighty