Here’s a nice little bit of trivia to carry you into your weekend: Amidst all the hullabaloo about the surprise Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past that was announced earlier this week, CD Projekt also revealed that Geralt’s big(gest) adventure has now surpassed 65 million copies sold.
“The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which recently celebrated its 11th anniversary, has just crossed another spectacular sales threshold: 65 million copies,” CD Projekt chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz said in the studio’s financial results commentary. “This cements its place among the best-selling videogames in history.”
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And indeed it does: Over on Wikipedia (which, for the record, notes that its ranking “may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness” but is nonetheless, in my opinion, representative of the big picture situation), The Witcher 3 is now cited as the eighth best-selling videogame of all time. behind Terraria’s 70 million copies sold, and ahead of Super Mario Bros. at 58 million.
That’s still a long way from the true kings of the castle—Tetris, Minecraft, and Grand Theft Auto 5—but it’s still a hell of an accomplishment by any measure, and especially for a game that emerged from an unlikely partnership between an unknown game studio and an equally obscure fantasy author—both from the not-exactly-a-gaming-hotbed (at the time) country of Poland.
What makes the accomplishment even more notable is the relentlessness of its advance. The Witcher 3 hit 20 million copies sold in 2019, four years after its release—an average of five million copies per year. Four years after that, it achieved 50 million copies, running the average up to a little over six million per year since launch. In 2025 it hit 60 million copies sold—another five million per year out the door—and now, one year later, five million more copies are in the book.
It’s extremely quick and dirty math (the only kind I’m good at) but the picture it paints is clear: The Witcher 3 has not just a very long tail, but also a remarkably steady one. The cynic in me can’t help but think Songs of the Past is a sign that The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 are a lot further off than we like to think and CD Projekt needs something to bridge the gap, but at the same time there’s no denying that year over year over year, The Witcher 3 continues to be a hit videogame. Given that persistent interest, why not make more?
I imagine we’ll see another notable sales bump in 2027, assuming CD Projekt is able to get the Songs of the Past expansion out on that schedule. Also note, though, that the studio teased even more new content coming this year—there may be even more life left in Geralt than we expect.
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