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Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

Thronebreaker is a single player role-playing game set in the world of The Witcher that combines narrative-driven exploration with unique puzzles and card battle mechanics. This game spins a truly regal tale of Meve, a war-veteran and queen of two Northern Realms - Lyria and Rivia. Facing an imminent Nilfgaardian invasion, Meve is forced to once again enter the warpath and set out on a dark journey of destruction and revenge.

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The world stands on the verge of chaos, as the tensions between the power-hungry Nilfgaardian Empire and proud Northern Realms grow. Facing an imminent invasion, Meve — war-veteran Queen of Lyria and Rivia — is forced to once again enter the warpath, and set out on a dark journey of destruction and revenge.

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64 total

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Steam User 3475STEAMRecommended

8/10

Mar 17, 2026·34h·Verified

Steam User 4323STEAMRecommended

Its about 20% too long but I really enjoyed this game. Easily a 4/5

Mar 15, 2026·41h·Verified

Steam User 0156STEAMRecommended

интересный сюжет

Mar 15, 2026·28h·Verified

Steam User 3967STEAMRecommended

很好玩代入感很强配乐也很棒不舍得把结局打了

Mar 14, 2026·114h·Verified

Steam User 3662STEAMRecommended

相比与巫师3中的昆特牌，王权的陨落中的昆特牌大大增加与敌人的交互，而且动态卡牌的画面非常精美，配音也很接地气。

Mar 14, 2026·36h·Verified

Steam User 6533STEAMRecommended

Text Review:

Bulletpoints

Pros:
-Good visuals (Comic drawn style, ornate map, shows off areas we haven't been to yet, animated cards can look nice, dark design, pale, samey but war torn regions and wilderness can look like that)
-Good music (I didn't always notice it but it can range from standard drumming to nice tavern music and throat singing)
-Some rewards can be earned here for the online Gwent card game (Would you want to play it especially now?) some of which can only be gained here, if you need a GOG account to synchronise the rewards
-Fun card battling (If not everyone likes Gwent online instead of traditional Gwent... and Thronebreaker's version is even different from that!)
-Very good puzzle challenges, mostly using Gwent mechanics (It's perhaps more puzzle game than pure card game)
-Nice, if simple, exploration gameplay (Treasure hunting especially)
-Very good writing with good extensive voice acting! Meve is a great character, brilliant but flawed! At worst some encounter justifications are forced!

Maybes:
-The choice system can be good with weighty outcomes like losing companions and cards, others lose resources and cards! It can be easy enough that making the "good" choice is effortless! And ultimately the
system is modular especially for endings (A common issue though for RPGs!)
-New locations and characters, which some will appreciate but others would prefer seeing more familiar faces!

Cons:
-RPG camp elements aren't really necessary... the game is too easy for that!

Video Review:
https://youtu.be/bqth7epA8vI

Short Review:
https://youtube.com/shorts/1xDIgkmzedE

Mar 14, 2026·51h·Verified

Steam User 6473STEAMRecommended

The game was better than what I expected, the campaign is really good.

Mar 13, 2026·57h·1·Verified

Steam User 3245STEAMNot recommended

Positiv:
+ Atmosphärisches Level Designs
+ Wichter/Gwent
+ In Deutsch Vertonte Story

Verbesserungswürdig:
~ Game Play (nur mit der Maus) warum nicht mit WASD bewegen?

Negativ:
- Sehr viele Puzzel-Kämpfe mit Spezialbedignungen und vorgegebenen Karten...
- Die ersten 5–6 Stunden sind etwas langsam (Tutorial-Flair),
- Repetitiv Gameplay
- Puzzel-Kämpfe mit Spezialbedignungen (nur ein weg ist richtig) Try and Error fühlt sich nicht gut an. !

Mar 11, 2026·7h·Verified

Steam User 7757STEAMRecommended

Лучшая сюжетная ККИ, вы вообще играли когда-либо в сюжетную ККИ?

Mar 11, 2026·12h·Verified

Steam User 2288STEAMRecommended

very good take on the gwent card game, story is good, art is great.

Mar 11, 2026·11h·Verified

Steam User 5703STEAMRecommended

short review 8.5 i really liked it even tho i thought it got a little repetitive near the end like last 5ish hours

Pros:
voice acting
characters
art
music
choices
vibes

Cons:
dragged near the end
no multiple saves
wish there was a little bit more movement in the big cutscenes
wish there was more to do near the end

Mar 10, 2026·32h·1·Verified

Steam User 4073STEAMRecommended

What a fun and intelligent game, with a great story and voice actors to boot. Really outstanding!

Mar 8, 2026·68h·Verified

Steam User 1498STEAMRecommended

Jogaço

Mar 8, 2026·186h·Verified

Steam User 9376STEAMRecommended

令人印象深刻，有趣的卡牌游戏。

Mar 8, 2026·48h·Verified

Steam User 5695STEAMRecommended

Thronebreaker to prawdziwa perełka dla fanów fabuły wiedźmina i nie tylko. Historia wciąga od pierwszej minuty, bohaterowie są pełni charakteru, a decyzje naprawdę mają znaczenie dla świata gry. Połączenie epickiej narracji z wymagającymi, ale satysfakcjonującymi walkami karcianymi sprawia, że każda runda to czysta przyjemność. 10/10 – jedna z najlepszych gier, w jakie grałem.

Mar 8, 2026·28h·Verified

Steam User 1250STEAMRecommended

На свиче прошел

Mar 7, 2026·6h·Verified

Steam User 0345STEAMRecommended

Лучшая карточная игра энивей у которой не будет ни продолжения, ни будущего, что очень печально, история интересная, геймплей старается в разнообразие что приятно, визуал и музыка ну и так понятно, и что то похожего увы я больше для себя не найду, и вам купить советую.

Mar 6, 2026·36h·Verified

Steam User 7710STEAMNot recommended

I really enjoy this game. The puzzles with Gwent rules are all fun. I like exploring the overworld in spite of the avatar sticking to terrain too much. It has perfect performance on my Steam Deck too!

However I've never seen a game that won't launch on the Primary Display. Since I use multiple monitors and often stream with Moonlight, this game is unplayable for me unless I decide to write a lengthy launch script for it.

CDPR's other projects don't have this problem and neither does any game released in the past 30 years. Sadly, I have to throw shade on what's otherwise a really nice game.

Mar 6, 2026·10h·Verified

Steam User 0919STEAMRecommended

Ce jeux est une pépite. J'apprécie beaucoup la patte graphique. Le scénario et l'univers sont dignes de celui de Witcher 3, un monde sombre, en guerre dans lequel il faut faire des choix qui ont des conséquences aussi bien sur le gameplay que sur le scénario. Plus on avance dans le jeu et plus les décisions semblent difficiles à prendre et aucune ne semble la meilleure aussi bien moralement que au niveau du jeu. A cela s'ajoute le jeu de Gwent et de nombreux puzzle qui sont bien fait

Mar 6, 2026·75h·Verified

Steam User 7482STEAMRecommended

I recommend this game. The universe and storytelling within it are immense in my opinion.

Mar 6, 2026·54h·Verified

Steam User 7123STEAMRecommended

个人感觉最好的卡牌游戏

Mar 5, 2026·45h·1·Verified

Steam User 2349STEAMRecommended

ammmaazing! gonna suck to go back to the archaic gwent of witcher 3 when I eventually play that again.

Mar 3, 2026·42h·Verified

Steam User 0056STEAMRecommended

Excelente (5/5)

História completamente insana, personagens maravilhosos e uma excelente gameplay.

Mar 2, 2026·72h·1·Verified

Steam User 9871STEAMNot recommended

I wanted to like this game, but it presents challenging tactical battles that only people very proficient with GWENT would win. There's no way to understand what to do; it's not logical. You need a walkthrough to get on top of every battle. It's annoying. While the story is just OK, and soundtrack pretentious

Mar 2, 2026·2h·1·Verified

Steam User 0739STEAMRecommended

不如昆特牌

Mar 1, 2026·4h·Verified

Steam User 0197STEAMRecommended

很有趣的一部作品.美术音乐都不错.剧情更是难得佳作.推荐

Mar 1, 2026·63h·Verified

Steam User 4671STEAMRecommended

[i][b]Gwent[/b], an side activity in the Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, easy to learn and fun to play, while taking break from the main story.

[b]Gwent: The Witcher Card Game[/b], a standalone multiplayer game, which eventually couldn't compete with the current TCG online game market and active development was eventually dropped. Although rumors tell there being still active player base, but the glory days are long gone.

[b]Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales[/b], a single player adventure released together with multiplayer version, offering in-game rewards for multiplayer game for making through tough choices and willing to find all of the hidden chests.[/i]

Tried my best to collect all chests, completing all puzzle and side story missions.
This proofed to be quite hard, as you'll have to make choices and which will have consequences even if you thought it was the best solution available.
As some wise man said: What goes around comes around.

Players are forced to adapt and customize their decks even with the Battle-Hardened difficulty (Normal). Had to take some notes of my followers and their ideologies, to not overstep between them.

Finished the game with the Steam Deck, only having difficulty when modifying the deck list while the D-pad makes sometimes an "hop" action to different brackets, forcing me to tap more gently the D-pad to move around. Using touchscreen will probably fix the issue if needed. Additionally cannot type in the game, so no easy way to sort by name the cards from list.

[h2]Final score: 9/10[/h2]

Feb 28, 2026·43h·1·Verified

Steam User 3712STEAMRecommended

非常值得一玩的witcher昆特牌番外。满足牌瘾又十分有剧情的游戏，cdpr对于角色的刻画一如既往大的好！

Feb 28, 2026·25h·Verified

Steam User 5282STEAMRecommended

Strong characters.
Memorable story.
Music that elevates said story and characters.

Feb 26, 2026·81h·Verified

Steam User 2167STEAMRecommended

genieten

Feb 26, 2026·41h·Verified

Steam User 9530STEAMRecommended

Severly underrated addition to the Witcher series as a whole, I think if it were more advertised as something you can treat as simply an interractive story (given there is easy mode - where you can skip literally every single Gwent aspect and just dig into the roots of the story), that has optional hardcore Gwent components, it would work out a lot more. A favorite of mine as both a Witcher and Gwent fanatic who should've left a review sooner.

Feb 26, 2026·32h·Verified

Steam User 7622STEAMRecommended

Loved the story and the mechanics. Its like gwent on steroids. If you like witcher and gwent go for it. Its not the same as gwent, so if you are looking for that, go for the official gwent game.
Anyway, highly reccomend, really fun and engaging

Feb 25, 2026·54h·Verified

Steam User 8676STEAMRecommended

juegazo

Feb 25, 2026·27h·Verified

Steam User 9365STEAMRecommended

카드 겜은 취향은 아니지만, 역시 위처 세계관이라 스토리가 참 재밌네요ㄷㄷ 이 가격에 35시간이나 즐김.

Feb 25, 2026·35h·Verified

Steam User 4203STEAMNot recommended

Jó a hangulata játéknak és a története is, ami tetszett. Viszont a játékment lassú a sok puzzle miatt, amiket persze meg kell csinálni...

Feb 24, 2026·13h·Verified

Steam User 7213STEAMRecommended

Крутая игра с хорошим геймплеем и сюжетом. По мере прохождение ещё награды можно забирать в сетевой Гвинт

Feb 24, 2026·41h·Verified

Steam User 0388STEAMRecommended

属于粉丝向游戏，如果只玩过巫师3很难理解游戏中的世界观和没头没尾的剧情到底在讲什么，但如果看过小说，这款游戏就是处处是彩蛋的卡牌神作，幸好我看过小说玩的很开心。（全成就达成）[u] （8.0/10分） [/u]

Feb 24, 2026·37h·Verified

Steam User 2965STEAMRecommended

Que decir... estuve esperando terminarlo para escribir la reseña.

Un juegazo mas que digno del universo de The Witcher, esta vez contando la historia de la Reina Meve.

Un juego lleno de sangre, muchas traiciones y decisiones importantes.

JUE-GA-ZO. Estaría bueno que salga una segunda parte pero bueno... a esperar a The Witcher 4.

Feb 24, 2026·47h·2·Verified

Steam User 7396STEAMRecommended

Gran spin off de un juego que me cambio la vida. Si por alguna razón te quedaste con ganas de mas del universo de The Witcher, este es un gran exponente del mismo, muy recomendado.
Yo soy Lyrio y tengo aguante!!!
(ahre que me considero mas de Skellige pero bueno).
Por la reina Meve doy la vida a mucha honra

Feb 24, 2026·38h·Verified

Steam User 3936STEAMRecommended

Es un juego increible, doblado al castellano como pocos juegos ya... la aventura te sumerge en el mundo the Witcher, la música, los personajes, la decisiones morales, los puzzles... Un juegazo!

Feb 23, 2026·33h·Verified

Steam User 6080STEAMRecommended

Hubiera sido genial que saquen mas "tales".

Feb 23, 2026·9h·Verified

Steam User 8310STEAMRecommended

个人还是比较推荐这款游戏的，相当于是巫师三昆特牌独立出来的游戏。如果你喜欢巫师系列并且喜欢打牌的话值得入手，不过这游戏也有一些小缺点：
[code]解密关卡太多，有的解密难度偏高，需要攻略才能通过，有的解密则属于没活硬整（点名第五章）
[code]这游戏不能手动存档，并且存档只能覆盖最近的一次，如果误操作无法返回，这一点确实很ex，期待制作组加入手动保存机制
[code]游戏的前期资源不够，训练兵种和升级工坊较慢

Feb 23, 2026·54h·2·Verified

Steam User 9425STEAMNot recommended

bok gibi

Feb 23, 2026·2h·Verified

Steam User 6771STEAMNot recommended

I wanted to like this, but it's just a very hard to get stuck into. If Gwent in Witcher 3 is as deep and fun as a puddle, the Gwent in this is about as deep and fun as a pothole. Gwent is the combat system, which should be engaging and exciting, but it's really just boring.

If you're someone who is able to stomach bad gameplay for the sake of enjoying narrative and characters you might like it. You can choose different dialogue options to change what kind of ruler Meve is and it does affect your troop's morale and combat ability but it feels more like a good idea for a game that didn't spend enough time in the oven.

Feb 22, 2026·17h·1·Verified

Steam User 7936STEAMRecommended

The game is really good, interesting battles and puzzles, nice story. Also nice for the folks like me who like gwent but hate people)

Feb 22, 2026·25h·Verified

Steam User 7314STEAMRecommended

Absolute cinema! This has to be the most underrated game by CDPR

Feb 22, 2026·30h·1·Verified

Steam User 4818STEAMRecommended

It's fine, just don't play on bonebreaker. It wasn't designed properly.

Feb 22, 2026·40h·Verified

Steam User 4200STEAMRecommended

Hidden CD Project gem, 11/10

Feb 22, 2026·129h·Verified

Steam User 3177STEAMRecommended

My intro to the witcher series, Great game and great story as well

Feb 22, 2026·53h·Verified

Steam User 1069STEAMRecommended

Awesome

Feb 21, 2026·84h·Verified

Steam User 5754STEAMRecommended

puzzles interessantes, não muito intuitivos para os mais lesos mas são legais

Feb 21, 2026·5h·1·Verified

Steam User 6546STEAMRecommended

This game is all about story telling, its gwent based gameplay is atrocious.

You dont need to play the Gwent based combat, you can skip it after forfeiting an encounter on the menu, and a recommend you to do it, just play for the story of it.

If you like The Witcher series you should get it, theres choices with consequences later, a cool well written narrative, and even a opportunity to became racist against Scoiatael, just like me. :)

At least until a play The Witcher 2 and choose Iorveths path I think.

And dont go to it thinking that will be a lot of Gerald, he have a single line, appears one single time, gains the title of Gerald of Rivia, and runs off.

But do a favor to yourself, and buy it on the 80% off that is almost constantly there.

Feb 20, 2026·10h·1·Verified

Steam User 9466STEAMRecommended

amazing story, up there with bloody baron quest line and hearts of stone in terms of quality

Feb 20, 2026·4h·Verified

Steam User 4400STEAMRecommended

The game is similar to GWENT but with story mode instead of online play.
Contains puzzles and battles with AI

Feb 20, 2026·10h·Verified

Steam User 0764STEAMRecommended

Quem diria que um jogo de cartas poderia ser tão divertido e ter tantos personagens carismáticos

Feb 19, 2026·43h·1·Verified

Steam User 2944STEAMRecommended

A must play for all fans of the Wither world. Played for about 9 hours properly, fiddling with gwent, and then completed the rest of the story as a visual novel and still had a more than enjoyable experience.

[h3] Gameplay [/h3]

Storytelling takes the shape of a visual novel while all other gameplay is handled by the gwent game. This includes even other things that aren’t related to fighting as the game has plenty of puzzle “fights” with totally custom cards.

While largely skipping on Gwent in my two playthroughs of the Witcher 3 I found it quite enjoyable. However after I took a long pause from the game and subsequently forgot how to play most efficiently I gave up and just enjoyed the story. I wouldn’t say the combat is hard, but it relies largely on creating synergies between different cards so quite a lot of reading and strategy crafting is required.

What I didn’t like that much was the puzzle engagement. I felt a lot of them had only one proper solution and often the sequence of cards isn’t that easy to predict - or at least requires the player to do a lot of easy arithmetic multiple attacks in advance. This wouldn’t be so bad if only there wasn’t a lot of time wasted on animations, waiting for the opponent to finish their turn and one didn’t need to skip through so much information at the start of the fight. That’s also a problem in normal fights where if you make a mistake it takes some time to get back.

Thankfully there's an option to skip fights. It must be said that it’s far from optimal - to say the least one is missing a lot of in battle extra dialogue, achievements for those who care, and obviously diminishes the weights of Meves' struggle when each fight ends in 10 seconds and a stunning victory.

[h3] Story and worldbuilding [/h3]

The worldbuilding in Thronebreaker is one of the best in the series, definitely better than in Witcher 3. The world of Thronebreaker is ugly and miserable (even with being sanitized from the more sensitive topics) and it still holds that the true monsters are the humans/other sentient races. In general the Witcher fairy tail is gone - there are no beautiful witches, no magical lands and only the depressive reality of senseless medieval warfare (not like there is some sense in modern warfare also).

I especially liked the inclusion of the morel system which underscores the point pretty well. Contrary to most games where you have some morality system that basically ranks you according to rules of modern society, here Meves isn’t judged by her conscience, but according to the morale system of your soldiers. This means that treating POWs well, being accepting of other races will lead you to losing morale points. On the other sometimes actions like executions, torture, stealing from the common folk will make the morale indicator all green. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a system, a game that would reward you for being essentially a war criminal. And even outside of this system, you will be often punished for behaving like a “normal” person would.

The story itself is well written, beautifully voiced, acted and very well drawn. It’s one of the best in the series and well worth experiencing.

[h3] Conclusions [/h3]

If you are a fan of the Witcher world this game is a must play. Even for those who aren’t fans of card games, experiencing it just as some 9 hour visual novel is more than worth it.

Feb 19, 2026·13h·1·Verified

Steam User 6665STEAMRecommended

I enjoyed this a lot. I've never played a deckbuilding game before but I loved gwent in the witcher, and given the online accolades this game has I was excited to try it. It delivered in spades. Gwent plays differently than in the witcher but very similar and still tons of fun.

Feb 19, 2026·42h·1·Verified

Steam User 7192STEAMRecommended

Un gioco con una grafica semplice ma che di certo non annoia. Se vi è piaciuto il guent (il gioco di carte presente in The witcher 3), lo adorerete. C'è una trama di base ed i combattimenti vengono svolti tramite partita a carte. Dopo averlo terminato ci ho rigiocato e si possono fare diverse scelte che cambiano la trama finale.

Feb 18, 2026·91h·Verified

Steam User 6337STEAMRecommended

I liked the game but the it does NOT explain itself so well... Need to study online walkthrough to understand it a bit better. Still learning

Feb 18, 2026·9h·1·Verified

Steam User 2024STEAMRecommended

我去，发现宝藏了。骨折游戏里发现了这款打牌游戏，制作精良，内容丰富，上手后停不下来。貌似还有多人模式，不愧是波兰蠢驴

Feb 17, 2026·24h·Verified

Steam User 3514STEAMRecommended

Bela historia, bem montado o jogo, gwent é clássico...

Feb 17, 2026·81h·1·Verified

Steam User 4697STEAMRecommended

Gwent + story + support CDPR = sounds great to me
Also: The spanish voice acting is superb

Feb 15, 2026·40h·Verified

Steam User 4901STEAMRecommended

Mroczny klimat od pierwszych sekund wciąga jak bagno. Walka jest szybka i satysfakcjonująca, a karty i umiejętności dają mnóstwo miejsca na kombinacje i eksperymenty. Fabuła potrafi zaskoczyć, a dobrze napisane postacie sprawiają, że chce się poznawać kolejne wątki. Świetna mieszanka strategii, akcji i klimatu, trudno się oderwać

Feb 15, 2026·34h·5·Verified

Steam User 1456STEAMNot recommended

不是，这游戏手动存档读档都没有吗

Feb 15, 2026·4h·1·Verified

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