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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt nearly had a very different name


The Witcher 3 wasn't called Wild Hunt for a while. It had a few different names.

There was a time when The Witcher 3 wasn't called Wild Hunt and CD Projekt Red was trying out various names for its new game - and we've just unearthed a couple we'd never heard before. "I liked Northern Lights," Michal Platkow-Gilewski, vice president of communication and PR, told Eurogamer. Platkow-Gilewski said, speaking as part of an interview for a larger article looking back on 10 years of The Witcher 3, which we'll publish tomorrow.

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