A mod has received a major update, and now we can even play Gwent online if we feel reckless enough.
The impressive The Witcher 3 Online mod, which brought multiplayer to PC players earlier this year, has become even better with its massive 3.0 update. In addition to letting us explore the Continent together, this milestone achievement from the modding community provides full support for online multiplayer Gwent, effectively reviving CD Projekt RED, or CDPR’s standalone card-game spin-off, which officially shut down in 2023. Since the Polish developers are reportedly already shaping the franchise’s official multiplayer future, this fan-driven revival arrives with perfect timing.
Support for multiplayer Gwent matches in The Witcher 3 does not stop at the basics, and it does not merely allow players to play the card game against human opponents with prebuilt decks. The 3.0 update brings full match synchronization, meaning players can use exactly the cards and decks they have collected in the game, so all progress remains intact, as if this were a normal Gwent match in the single-player campaign.
Needless to say, this is huge news for every The Witcher 3 fan playing on PC, and for longtime Gwent fans as well. Although Gwent: The Witcher Card Game began as an online multiplayer version of the game’s minigame, the title changed a great deal over time, as one would expect from a live-service game. As a result, the The Witcher 3 Online mod now offers the same pure, unfiltered, and rather unbalanced Gwent experience that many have been missing for years.
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game was CDPR’s first attempt at a multiplayer experience, and we now know it will not be the last. The Polish developers are reportedly working on a new free-to-play multiplayer game for PC and mobile, which we wrote about recently, alongside the franchise’s next single-player games, the recently announced The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past expansion and The Witcher IV. And who knows, perhaps a new version of online Gwent could also appear in this new multiplayer project.
Source: WCCFTech, Nexus Mods
