The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Polish: Wiedźmin 3: Dziki Gon) is an action role-playing video game set in an open world environment, developed by video game developer CD Projekt RED.[4] Announced in February 2013, it was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 19 May 2015.[5] The game is the third in the series, preceded by The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which are based on the series of fantasy novels by author Andrzej Sapkowski.