This game is rated ESRB: Mature 17+ for Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Violence, Nudity and Partial Nudity.
Released in 2007 for Windows and Mac by CD Projekt RED, The Witcher is a role-playing adventure game adapted from Andrzej Sapkowski's novel series. Players control Geralt of Rivia, a witcher — a professional monster hunter — who awakens with no memory and finds his home fortress of Kaer Morhen attacked by a criminal organization known as the Salamandra, who make off with a cache of valuable witcher potions. The game unfolds across a morally complex world where Geralt must investigate the theft, pursue the Salamandra, and gradually reconstruct the fragments of his lost past. Central to the experience is a system of ethical decision-making, as characters throughout the game present Geralt with difficult dilemmas that have no clear right answers. The result is a narrative-driven RPG grounded in the darker, grayer tradition of Sapkowski's original fiction.
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The game begins when Geralt of Rivia, one of a few remaining "witchers" – traveling monster hunters for hire, gifted with unnatural powers, is transported to the witcher stronghold of Kaer Morhen by fellow witchers who had discovered him unconscious in a field. Geralt remembers almost nothing of his life before that point. He is taken to Kaer Morhen, the base of the witchers, where he meets a sorceress named Triss Merigold. The castle is attacked by a gang of bandits named Salamandra, led by a criminal known as the Professor, a mage named Savolla who controls a large, praying mantis-like monster, and another mage named Azar Javed. The witchers and the sorceress manage to slay the monster and kill Savolla, but the Professor and Azar manage to escape with the mutagens that genetically alter the witchers. After curing Triss of the wounds she received while fighting Javed, Geralt and the rest of the witchers head off in different directions in order to find information on Salamandra.
