--- title: The Witcher 3 Remastered Makes an 11-Year-Old RPG Feel... description: The Witcher 3 Remastered brings a substantial free upgrade covering visuals, combat, progression, controls, and interface, including a strong native Nintendo... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-witcher-3-remastered-makes-an-11-year-old-rpg-feel-new-again-wyrbyzszj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Witcher 3 Remastered Makes an 11-Year-Old RPG Feel New Again | daily.dev og:description: The Witcher 3 Remastered brings a substantial free upgrade covering visuals, combat, progression, controls, and interface, including a strong native Nintendo... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-witcher-3-remastered-makes-an-11-year-old-rpg-feel-new-again-wyrbyzszj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wYRBYZsZJ.png og:image:alt: The Witcher 3 Remastered Makes an 11-Year-Old RPG Feel New Again og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Witcher 3 Remastered Makes an 11-Year-Old RPG Feel New Again **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The Witcher 3 Remastered brings a substantial free upgrade covering visuals, combat, progression, controls, and interface, including a strong native Nintendo Switch 2 version. Reviews are largely positive, with a 94 Metacritic average across the first 10 critic reviews. Improvements include denser foliage, better lighting, a redesigned skill tree with three ranks, transmogrification to separate armor looks from stats, expanded photo mode, and accessibility presets. The Switch 2 version targets 30-40 FPS with VRR support, gyro aiming, touchscreen, and Joy-Con 2 mouse controls. On PC, expanded ray and path tracing push visuals further. The remaster arrives ahead of the Songs of the Past expansion planned for 2027 and before The Witcher 4. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What's new in The Witcher 3 Remastered compared to the original next-gen update? The Witcher 3 Remastered goes beyond the 2022 next-generation update's technical focus by overhauling combat, movement, animation, enemy AI, cameras, and progression. It introduces a redesigned skill tree with three ranks and clearer prerequisites, transmogrification to separate armor looks from stats, an expanded photo mode, new accessibility presets, and improved map markers and menus. The update is free for owners of the base game. _daily.dev surfaces coverage like this for developers tracking how major studios approach large-scale remasters._ ### What frame rate does The Witcher 3 Remastered run at on Nintendo Switch 2? The native Nintendo Switch 2 version targets between 30 and 40 FPS, with variable refresh rate support smoothing the handheld experience. A compatible 120Hz display lets the docked mode approach the 40 FPS target as well. Image reconstruction can introduce softness around fine foliage or hair, but performance is far more stable than the original Switch port. _engineers curious about cross-platform performance tuning follow hardware-specific breakdowns like this via daily.dev._ ### When is The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past releasing? Songs of the Past, the new expansion for The Witcher 3, is planned for 2027. The Remastered edition, which has sold alongside a base game total exceeding 65 million copies, is positioned to prepare the game and its audience ahead of that expansion and before The Witcher 4 arrives. _fans tracking the franchise roadmap can follow future Witcher news through daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@pkraszewski** · 0 upvotes > Yes, and it is a bloody mess on my AMD GPU... Textures going in and out (most visibly - clothes of NPCs turning solid red/green), smoke as black squares, _heavy_ flickering water textures. OTOH I will check again today - this time on Linux. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Witcher 3 is Getting a Massive Full Remaster as a Free Upgrade](https://daily.dev/posts/the-witcher-3-is-getting-a-massive-full-remaster-as-a-free-upgrade-vof6oiglm) · 80 LEVEL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Ocarina of Time Remake Adds Jumping, Sprinting & Voice Acting](https://daily.dev/posts/ocarina-of-time-remake-adds-jumping-sprinting-voice-acting-xo52je8dl) · 80 LEVEL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CD Projekt Red sees profit climb 37% in H1 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cd-projekt-red-sees-profit-climb-37-in-h1-2026-vk2yze9qq) · GamesIndustry.biz · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Zelda: The Wind Waker finally has the native PC port fans waited decades for, complete with 120fps support](https://daily.dev/posts/zelda-the-wind-waker-finally-has-the-native-pc-port-fans-waited-decades-for-complete-with-120fps-s-wggwxsptq) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#cd-projekt-red](https://daily.dev/tags/cd-projekt-red) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-witcher-3-remastered-makes-an-11-year-old-rpg-feel-new-again-wyrbyzszj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Witcher 3 Remastered Makes an 11-Year-Old RPG Feel New Again","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-witcher-3-remastered-makes-an-11-year-old-rpg-feel-new-again-wyrbyzszj","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-witcher-3-remastered-makes-an-11-year-old-rpg-feel-new-again-wyrbyzszj"},"datePublished":"2026-09-29T23:47:43.680Z","dateModified":"2026-09-30T17:06:16.525Z","description":"The Witcher 3 Remastered brings a substantial free upgrade covering visuals, combat, progression, controls, and interface, including a strong native Nintendo...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2bed505796b297a356c790a887de0554?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2bed505796b297a356c790a887de0554?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"80 LEVEL","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"80 LEVEL","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/78eebcd76c154e6bbfd565fed7dc4093","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/80lv"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-witcher-3-remastered-makes-an-11-year-old-rpg-feel-new-again-wyrbyzszj","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"game-development,cd-projekt-red","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"80 LEVEL","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/80lv"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Witcher 3 Remastered Makes an 11-Year-Old RPG Feel New Again"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-witcher-3-remastered-makes-an-11-year-old-rpg-feel-new-again-wyrbyzszj","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Yes, and it is a bloody mess on my AMD GPU… Textures going in and out (most visibly - clothes of NPCs turning solid red/green), smoke as black squares, heavy flickering water textures. 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