The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

We were there on day one for The Witcher 3 in May 2015—part of that first wave when critics were calling it the best and most exciting game in recent years. The messy UI, glitchy animations, occasional crashes: none of it stopped us from sinking hours into CREO for a reason. We loved what CD Projekt Red built despite the jank. Two full years of coverage from 2015 to 2020 meant we documented the game's evolution through patches, expansions, and the eventual Game of the Year Edition that arrived in 2016. The house watched Witcher 3 win 800+ awards including 250+ GOTY honors, and we understood why—meaningful choices, deep character work, a world that felt genuinely alive. By 2020, when we last streamed it, we'd proven that open-world storytelling had fundamentally changed after Witcher 3's launch.

We logged 83.5 hours across those five years, accumulating 21,740 hours watched with an average of 262 viewers and a peak of 368. The negative follower count (-118) came late when the game's dominance made finding fresh content harder, but those early years showed viewers hungry for immersive RPGs. Witcher 3 wasn't just a game we streamed—it became part of our archive, a benchmark for how good game design survives technical roughness.