After 10 years, The Witcher 3's fan-favorite card game Gwent is becoming an actual, real-life card game with more than 400 cards

Dec. 6, 2024

“The biggest ‘game within a game’ in media history” is getting even bigger

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The Witcher 3’s wildly popular in-game card game Gwent is getting an official physical release 10 years afterCD Projekt Red’s beloved RPG launched.

Gwent is a playable minigame you can access in The Witcher 3 by interacting with NPCs found in various locations like inns and taverns across the map. It’s a turn-based card game where your goal is to gather up more points than your opponent before the round ends.

The game became so popular that it’s since spawned a standalone single-player component called Thronebreaker: The Witcher Talesas well as a mobile app simply titled Gwent, which has more than five million players on Android alone, according to a press release from Hatchette Boardgames.

The company’s officially licensed physical card game based on Gwent is the first of its kind. The kit comes with more than 400 actual, real-life cards as well as a playmat, “replicating the full experience” of the original game. Hatchette also says the game comes with “several variants for casual play” as well as “tournament rules for stricter competition settings.”

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