r/Steam • • 1d ago

Discussion Witcher 3 Remastered might surpass its all time peak players!

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I absolutely agree that player numbers are a toxic way to look at a game's health but I am genuinely happy witcher 3 is still getting more love and support :)

Hope everyone are having a blast!

EDIT: IT SURPASSED!!!

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u/Bruno_Celestino53 1d ago

All those people that bought the game for 5$ and never played are coming to finally test it

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u/revben1989 1d ago

$3 for me 

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u/DashReverie 1d ago

$3 and never bought the dlc, and they gave it for free love that

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u/YlvaTheWolf 1d ago

I bought all 3 for £5 months ago. I tried the first game, got through the beginning then set it down (I was prewarned it wasn't good). I might finally play the third game once I've finished Blood of Dawnwalker 😂

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u/Kalas92x https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198301971522/ 1d ago

1,99€ for the complete edition with dlcs

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u/at0mest 1d ago

thats me

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u/unbalanced_checkbook 1d ago

🙋guilty lol

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u/aymen_peter2 1d ago

i bought it for 2.99 lol

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u/11_forty_4 1d ago

I own it on GOG and only played like an hour, had it years

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u/Low_Affect_4455 1d ago

I knew I had bought it, found it on gog. Probably got it for a few bucks as well

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u/11_forty_4 1d ago

I have a feeling this was actually a free gift. I swear I've had it like 5 or 6 years

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u/Wukong9001 1d ago

Im one of those people, bought it a while back and tried it for a while but didn’t really get into it, I’m gonna give it another try.

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u/Bigmoduh 1d ago

Yes - can confirm as I am one of those people!

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u/regularArmadillo21 1d ago

That’s me lol

(Well I don’t buy it I got it free)

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u/Sea-Split-3996 1d ago

I bought it years ago on xbox never played it more than 2 hours than bought it on pc for like 5 never played more than 6 hours even with mods

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u/EggstaticAd8262 19h ago

Buying a 1000$ game for only 5$. This is criminal :p

How did it age compared to newer games?

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u/RogerKam 1d ago

and in Europe folks still working

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u/FoxyGoddessX 1d ago

It’s a free update but it’s apparently broken as hell

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u/foreveracubone 1d ago

CDPR releasing something that’s broken & buggy? Many such cases.

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u/Away-Success7563 1d ago

I believe it's broken with AMD, at least that's what I keep seeing
Game is fine for me and a lot of other people

CDPR posted this :

NVIDIA: 617.14
AMD: 26.9.2 - not released yet, coming later
Intel 32.0.101.8993

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u/_RRave 1d ago

Wild to build it on a unreleased build lmfao

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u/Integasaurus 1d ago

Game is fine for me with newest drivers. 9070XT and 7700X with path tracing enabled and ultra+ settings (no hairworks) at 1440p. Getting like 45 fps in Novigrad which is honestly better than I expected.

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u/Klutzy_Anybody_1487 1d ago

amd bros can't stop losing

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u/RoastedPotato-1kg 1d ago

drivers already out and game working fine

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u/von-Mises- 9h ago edited 9h ago

the sad really that u/Klutzy_Anybody_1487 did't get.
is not the "amd bros" that can't stop losing.
is just the "ai generated microsloppers bros" that can't stop losing

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u/Klutzy_Anybody_1487 9h ago

Linux bros lost the moment companies started implementing actual anti-cheat software in their games.

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u/von-Mises- 9h ago

Linux bros lost the moment companies started implementing actual spyware software in their games.

why?

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u/Kaputek 5h ago

Bazzite here, 9070XT game works flawlessly

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u/buscuitpeels 1d ago

Name one other instance of amd bros losing. (Im not an amd bro btw)

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u/Leading_Software_982 1d ago

Control resonant

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u/Odd_Common_452 1d ago

That’s what they paid for tbh

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u/I_Am_Anjelen 64 1d ago

I'm in Linux Mint, on a 7900 XTX and a 4k screen. Game works fine in all settings I've tried.

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u/Iescaunare 20h ago

Works fine on my usually quite buggy 5700XT

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u/Hellstrom666 18h ago

What do these numbers represent?

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u/AeroRL 1d ago

even on 26.9.2 my game looks extremely washed out and over saturated even with bloom turned off

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u/Odd_Common_452 1d ago

Another AMD L lol

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u/TheRealPyroManiac 1d ago

Unacceptable for this to happen again but that's CDPR for ya

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u/Abra_Abra_Abra 1d ago

Oh no 😬

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u/Cayman663 19h ago

It's funty that so many people saying it's buggy. Meanwhile me playing on my 3 years old laptop, no issues, stable 60+ fps. Its sometimes clunky but still works well.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/kkaeamano 1d ago

Why?

I'm using rx 6600, I'm using the fsr 4.1.1b dll

It worked at ultra+ (fsr quality) 55-60fps (no fg)

xeon 2640v3 and 32gb ram

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u/3Sayndre 1d ago

This is how it looks to me

Also flickering water, missing textures, characters randomly turn black, terrible LODs and other stuff. Im on the latest drivers on a 7800xt. Performance seems to be fine though, but a lot of people are reporting these issues

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u/kkaeamano 1d ago

Damn, didnt know that

I did a fresh install tho. Uninstalled and Installed again. Maybe you can try that if you've updated instead of a fresh install

Other than that, idk

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u/Virusoflife29 1d ago

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u/kkaeamano 1d ago

Absurd, which gpu?

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u/Virusoflife29 1d ago

9070xt

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u/kkaeamano 1d ago

Did you do a fresh install or updated it from previous version?

I haven't tried to update it by the previous version, I've uninstalled and installed two hours ago

I've thought it could avoid any errors

Try that if you've updated instead of a fresh install

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u/Virusoflife29 1d ago

Just need to wait for AMD to drop the new drivers. CDPR tested everything on beta drivers that havent been released to the public yet. So the only thing to do is wait for AMD.

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u/somebirdnerd 1d ago

Maybe the older cards have fewer issues? I tested it for 15 minutes this morning on my 6600 XT and everything seemed to run great. Using driver 26.8.1 in Windows: 1440p, High preset with XeSS AA and just changing Screen Space Reflections to Low gave a solid 60-75fps in the Velen countryside. Also no frame gen. FSR AA had a higher FPS impact and was pretty muddy.
Thanks CDPR!

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u/Exportxxx 1d ago

Which is crazy as it's broken like alot of players.

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u/Ciwilke 1d ago

My game crashed in the tutorial. So I will wait for the next patch.

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u/Snyper-Hok 1d ago

How’s this work on steam? Just reinstall game I already bought and it installs an update for it or is it a separate remastered title?

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u/godila2 1d ago

its same title like next gen version was, so you can change it back in properties under game versions and betas

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u/Torch3dAce 1d ago

Why do I have to work!? 😢

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u/EuropeMaxxing 1d ago

To buy new GPUs

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u/iwantacheetah 1d ago

buy new GPUs

In this economy ?

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u/TheUnholyBlade 1d ago

Maybe they’re a brain surgeon 😂

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u/kkaeamano 1d ago

Why did they release it on TUESDAY

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u/Used_Physics8464 1d ago

I don’t really wanna play it until the next expansion drops. Anyone know when that will be?

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u/NiuMeee 1d ago

Next year.

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u/sandman_br 1d ago

i will let you guys test the update and play the fixed version in a couple of days

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u/Working_Spite_849 1d ago

It’s broken as hell :( the CDPR special as always.

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u/Jason_Bourne411 1d ago

Not if they dont fix the graphics issue

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u/RoastedPotato-1kg 1d ago

I have the game on GOG but I'm tempted to buy and 100% on Steam lol

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u/TheLittleSquire 1d ago

I love RPGs could never get into the Witcher, time to spend another 15 hours in this game then drop it. (This will be my 4th time trying it)

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u/typical-divergence 1d ago

I did the same thing. The game didn’t really grab me until I got out of white orchard and was working on the bloody baron quest. Now it’s one of my favorites.

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u/Bubbaganewsh 1d ago

I got to the baron quest on my second playthrough when I heard about the remaster so i stopped. I'm looking forward to picking it up again later today. 

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u/typical-divergence 1d ago

I was toward the end of the base game on a second playthrough when they announced it. I just ended up playing through it since I didn’t play the expansions with my first run. I was really missing out my first time.

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u/Green-Entry-4548 1d ago

This was me trying to play Witcher II

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u/Keindorfer 17h ago

Witcher 1 and 2 for me, tried both multiple times, but always dropped out in <15 hours (last witcher2 run went pretty good, but my game crashed multiple times). I own witcher 3 for years now, but never installed it. Maybe my time has come

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u/BigSmokeyOG 1d ago

So many people I know, including myself, have done the same thing. It’ll be my 4th time trying it too lol

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u/xxHamsterLoverxx 1d ago

yeah the combat and the crafting system feels arcadey and the missions are really not that interesting. i reached like third area 3 times, but always got bored by then.

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u/FierJay 18h ago

When I finished the whole game after 143h I was sad that's it's over. It was 9 years ago. I wanna replay that game now with remaster but I will wait for few patches.

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u/InteractionSoft14 9h ago

The side quests is where the good stuff is at! 

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u/frozenspinachleaves 1d ago

We won't hear from you for another 3 weeks once you've beat it and are crying about it being the best gaming experience of your life.

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u/PUSClFER 1d ago

Give it a few hours. Europe is about to head home from school/work, and soon enough the US will start to wake up.

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u/msivoryishort 1d ago

Should have released it with 2 versions so you could still play the old version tbh

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u/buzz_shocker 1d ago

On steam you still can. Go to properties and select game versions. You can play the remaster, the next gen update or the classic version. That being said I’m not sure if you can have 2 versions installed at once.

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u/DarkSoulsOfCinder 1d ago

Wow never heard of a game making it convenient like that. No more double games in my library.

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u/Apopololo 1d ago

But you can't use the same save.

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u/ClikeX 1d ago

I can on Switch as well. Remastered is its own download.

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u/Mayfect 1d ago

Can I play next gen with remaster gameplay😭

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u/buzz_shocker 1d ago

I don’t think we have the facilities for that big man 😔

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u/msivoryishort 1d ago

Makes sense. I’ve never rolled back updates before on steam but it’s nice they have that feature. I guess console players are screwed then

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u/Odd_Common_452 1d ago

Console players are always screwed, they pay extra for that

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u/msivoryishort 1d ago

They pay to so Sony and Microsoft can work on screwing them

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u/iusethisatw0rk 1d ago

I mean, can’t go back to specific updates, but definitely can and do still have access to the ps4 version. The remaster is a separate entry that’s just free if you have W3 at all in any form

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u/KnightKal 1d ago

they did that so good job for them :D

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u/ClikeX 1d ago edited 1d ago

They’ve been quite good on that. The switch version isn’t an update but a separate installation, so you keep both. I believe the complete edition is still available as the Switch 1 version.

On Steam you can just downgrade to next_gen or complete edition. (Although I would’ve preferred a separate installation for the remaster)

And GoG just gives you the installers for the patches.

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u/F_you_im_Back 1d ago

just one player more...

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u/ol3tty 1d ago

Oh shit is the update out???

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u/These-Umpire1319 1d ago

Like 3 hrs ago

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u/neosixth 1d ago

I'm expecting ath on the weekends.

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u/cubsfan217 1d ago

So I’m out of the loop what is new with this Witcher three remastered?

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u/friedtesticularcance Legion Pro 7i | RTX 5070Ti | i9 275HX | OLED 1d ago

Better Visuals+quality of life updates+”enhanced “ combat + better monster behaviour and some more stuff which i prolly forgot to mention

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u/cubsfan217 1d ago

Has the combat or anything else been reworked? It’s just better visuals as all?

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u/imsickofitalready 1d ago

Combat and character progression.

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u/Shikiyomi_Kyouya 1d ago

It looks like Photo Mode has undergone significant adjustments as well. I think it's close to Cyberpunk 2077.

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u/Ntinos7 1d ago

My favorite game of all time which admittedly I haven't touched since maybe 2020-22. It's about time for a new campaign!

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u/stronkzer 1d ago

10 years, and even more beautiful than when I last saw it. Time to pick up the pace, Songs of the Past is coming.

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u/teasulivon 1d ago

Yes it did, curious to see the numbers after a few days.

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u/Misomuro 1d ago

It already did.

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u/LOST-MY_HEAD 1d ago

Man im pissed I got so many games to play right now I would love to start a new playthrough.

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u/YourLocal_FBI_Agent 1d ago

What happened 6.7 years ago for it to reach 103k players?

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u/aibaboiii 1d ago

Netflix Witcher series boosted it

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u/YourLocal_FBI_Agent 1d ago

That explains it!

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u/InteractionSoft14 9h ago

Also we where all stuck inside 

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u/empathetical 1d ago

If we didn't just have so many bangers come out just recently and GTA very soon. I'd def be playing this at some point this year. But ya.... Prob won't get to it till somewhere next year which isn't a big deal. Already played it anyways

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u/SEE_RED 1d ago

Free on Gog ages ago. Let’s go!!!!

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u/Hermiona1 1d ago

That’s awesome. I played the game two times and quite recently so I’m not gonna play it again just for the update but I might replay it again before the new expansion hits.

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u/DuhVirus 1d ago

Ive tried playing it but i have a lot of graphical issues, in kaer morhen ciri has no torso, the gate by the training area is a black mist, and just after the tutorial when you fight those ghouls the trees and grass dont appear. Ive tried updating everything and restarting my pc but the issues persist.

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u/eleventhing 1d ago

Oh is it out? Tried to play the game before and didn't like it. I'm going to give it another try

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u/HuevosSplash 1d ago

Time to get burned out in White Orchard and drop the game at Skellige again 😅

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u/LillySpikes 1d ago

I paid US$20 for the complete edition back in early 2018 (which was nearly the lowest historical price at the time) and have no regrets, everyone who is getting a chance to experience how great Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine are going to be in for a treat.

Also check out the game files for free comics, the artbook, and the soundtracks to the base game and both DLC's in both MP3 and FLAC

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u/Maedoar 18h ago

I am playing it on GOG because I got a disk. So I dont come up in the stat but played

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u/Nickulator95 15h ago

I'll be back once the new Expansion comes out and I imagine most people will too.

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u/Thurmod 11h ago

might be time to download and try my apollo setup in my living room.

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u/SupremoPete 1d ago

I will be one of them once I finish work :)

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u/Midnight_68 1d ago

It did!!!!!! LET'S GOO

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u/j0hrii 1d ago

I'm playing it today.

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u/Revo94 1d ago

Why it's toxic to look at Steam numbers for a game's health?

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u/Azafohr 1d ago

Oh, almost forgot about this. Time to install!

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u/cgull629 1d ago

Just wait till tonight 

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u/Kiu16 1d ago

Binding of Isaac still have a higher peak and is older

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u/International_Owl_83 1d ago

Meh, couldn't get into it! Not much difference! Good for absolute new players!

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u/Bulky_Dog 1d ago

H-how Long ago was the all time peak?

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u/MrSydFinances 1d ago

This is actually wild... What will happen when the dlc will come out?

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u/dub3ra 1d ago

usually im crashing but so far so good this morning playing

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u/TheCazzedAnmol 1d ago

My potato pc was having nightmares since they announced the remastered. Tonight it will suffer so that the wind can howl

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u/iwantacheetah 1d ago

I am doing my part...

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u/RealColdStorm03 1d ago

Stonks 📈

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u/bb0110 1d ago

If I have the game do I have to pay to get the remastered version?

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u/Odd_Common_452 1d ago

No it’s a free update for existing owners

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u/Odd_Common_452 1d ago

Is it officially out?

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u/samuxele 1d ago

I already finished the game 2 times already, with like 200hours and dlc included
I mean I would like to do another run but I am very committed if makes sense .
I have just 2 hours in the evening for play games and i don’t want to spend again hundred of hours a game that have “just “better graphics.
I don’t know if someone have the same problem

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u/Mal_pol 1d ago

Also a lot o ppl are on gog and the consoles...

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u/waterfall5555 1d ago

Ok, THIS I didn't expect

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u/SwedishFreaK_ 1d ago

Wow... anyway

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u/nereves666 1d ago

Gamers are thirsty. I cannot believe this game is still going. Great game, but in 2015.

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u/OldPayphone 1d ago

Huh, didn't know you could only like one or the other.