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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is celebrating its 15-year anniversary today, May 17, 2026. Below, we examine how its release reflects a particular time in gaming history, making it one-of-a-kind.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was a standout RPG when it launched fifteen years ago, but it’s the kind of game you could never make now.
Each of the three games in the Witcher series marks an important moment for developer CD Projekt Red. The Witcher was the moment the organization went from being a studio that mostly translated games from other territories to being a developer of new games. The Witcher 3 was the moment CD Projekt Red became a household name among gamers, as it set a high-water mark for open-world RPGs that similar games are still compared against.
But The Witcher 2 was a moment of true ambition for the studio. It was the first time the studio reached for technical excellence, developing its own graphics engine to move the Witcher series from being an awkward re-engineering of someone else’s engine to something of CD Projekt’s own. It also marked the moment when the studio began trying to push the limits of storytelling in video games.
The idea that
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