#Witcher 3 mutations series

Out of each adaptation, why has this one gained such a following, and why now? Witcher-mania has even conquered the iTunes store, with the showвЂ™s original soundtrack rising to number four on the charts the day after it came out. Netflix reported that The Witcher was their second most popular show of the year, second only to Stranger Things, and the original book seriesвЂ™ publisher is sending 500,000 additional copies to print in response to the demand created by the show. 1, over 100,000 people on Steam were playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the most recent installment in the series.

#Witcher 3 mutations series

But thereвЂ™s something about the 2019 streaming series thatвЂ™s captured the imagination of the greater public and turned the song вЂњToss a Coin to Your WitcherвЂќ into a worldwide phenomenon beyond fans of Polish fantasy novels. The franchise already had a sizable fanbase: Andrzej SapkowskiвЂ™s original book series about the white-haired monster hunter Geralt, starting with The Last Wish and originally published in Polish, has been around since 1993, and was first adapted into a video game by CD Projekt Red in 2007. IвЂ™m talking about The Witcher (2019), a Netflix Original show whose cult following sprang up practically overnight. I вЂ™d be a fool not to begin my run of columns in the new decade with the last big gaming event of the 2010s: the release of a show on Netflix.