Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales – A Worthy Entry in The Witcher Series

Depending on who you ask, Cyberpunk 2077 was either underwhelming or a disaster. In fact, just a year after the game’s release we already have massive articles trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong with that game.

And in what looks to be an attempt to prove that despite this momentary stumble, CD Projekt is still capable of producing great games, PC Gamer now directs our attention to the studio’s card-based RPG Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales that apparently didn’t get the recognition it deserved when it launched back in 2018.

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Since the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, fans of CD Projekt Red have largely fallen into two camps. The first is in denial, desperately clinging to the studio’s commitments to make Cyberpunk better. The second has already moved on, accepting the loss and burying its hopes for future games to rival The Witcher 3. I’m here to tell you there’s a third way through the grieving process: Play Thronebreaker, CD Projekt’s card-based RPG. It’s out now, and has been since 2018.

If this Witcher game has passed you by, it’s small wonder. A spin-off of a spin-off, Thronebreaker is the singleplayer campaign of the multiplayer Gwent card game that bombed amid a slew of Hearthstone competitors. Though highly scored by reviewers on release, the solo game didn’t find the kind of audience the Witcher universe typically enjoys, maybe because players didn’t really get what it was. It didn’t help that CD Projekt announced the shutdown of Gwent on consoles a couple of months after Thronebreaker’s launch, leaving a great game cut off from the supply line that should have fed it.