The player count for CD Projekt Red's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has hit its highest point in over two years, and some are attributing that boost in player count to the recent airing of Season 2 of The Witcher on Netflix. Season 2 of The Witcher heavily revolved around the Wild Hunt event that was the subject of the most decorated game in The Witcher video game series.

Though The Witcher television show and video games are both based on the same source material, The Witcher books written by Andrzej Sapkowski, the television show does borrow some elements from the games. In Season 2, The Witcher made several explicit references to the games that eagle-eyed fans picked up on. The most famous was a reference to the Wolf Medallion that Geralt often wears in the games. In the show, what appears to be a replica of that medallion is seen hanging from the medallion tree, signifying it was worn by a Witcher that previously perished. For viewers of The Witcher who were interested in diving deeper into the lore of the series, playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about Geralt, the Wild Hunt, and the world of Witchers. According to recently-released data, it seems a lot of players have taken up that opportunity.

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According to PC Gamer, the player count for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has spiked to a high of over 71,000 daily concurrent players since Season 2 of The Witcher kicked off. According to PC Gamer, this is the highest spike in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's player count since The Witcher Season 1 back in 2019, which caused the player count to hit an all-time high of over 100,000 concurrent players. The Season 2 spike also did not reach the launch peak of 92,000 in 2015.

Even though The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is over five years old, the fact that the show continues to look to it for inspiration shows just how impactful the game is to the Witcher franchise as a whole. The Wild Hunt, an apocalyptic event in ancient mythology, is, in the Witcher franchise, a group of spectral warriors from another realm. In the show, the Wild Hunt is teased in the final episode, as they attempt to abduct Ciri for her power.

While it's unclear exactly how much of The Witcher games is canon to the show, and vice versa, the fact that there is such interconnectivity makes the games a fertile source of information for show watchers. With The Witcher set to release the third season potentially later in 2022 or in 2023, players will be able to tide themselves over by following Geralt on his adventures in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

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Source: PC Gamer