The Witcher 3 Remastered makes the original’s best HD mod obsolete, but only because that same modder’s been working on the real deal

It’s been a long road, but a mod we called The Witcher 3’s best graphics overhaul will no longer be needed—and for once, I can talk about a mod becoming obsolete with a smile on my face, because the reasons involved here are all good ones.

The Witcher 3 HD Reworked is a cornerstone of the game’s modding scene. We’re talking over 325,000 unique downloads (725,000 in total), and that’s just the version that was uploaded back in 2024. The “OldGen” version, uploaded in 2015, has an eye-melting 1.7 million unique downloads (5.8 million in total). It’s a frankly astonishing upscaling and remodelling project that effects thousands of textures, models, and so on in CD Projekt Red’s classic.