It rewards exploration while maintaining a strong core story.Ĭontrast that with some other open-world games. The Witcher 3 is full of life, full of people commenting on your actions whether or not you pay attention, full of tiny stories and tiny details many players won’t even notice. It’s not the first game to have done so, but it certainly works the hardest at it. The Witcher 3 justifies its open-world format. Everything Witcher 3 does right comes back to a central theme: World-building.