The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone

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  1. TemplarGR
    Sep 9, 2016
    10
    As a gamer dinosaur, i remember the time when we didn't have DLCs and we actually had "expansion packs". Back then, games were released as complete packages, and later developers made "expansion packs" that really enhanced and extended the original game, and added tons of playtime on top of it.

    This is an old school expansion. Not a DLC. It adds a new storyline, and tons of stuff and    As a gamer dinosaur, i remember the time when we didn't have DLCs and we actually had "expansion packs". Back then, games were released as complete packages, and later developers made "expansion packs" that really enhanced and extended the original game, and added tons of playtime on top of it.

    This is an old school expansion. Not a DLC. It adds a new storyline, and tons of stuff and characters. Don't miss it!    … Expand
  2. Sceptic
    Oct 18, 2015
    10
    It's a fantastic DLC,well worth the small asking price.Besides the expected new weapons,armour,quests etc,it contains a truly brilliant main story and excellent characters,music and dialogue.The Witcher (and CDPR) keep on giving in what is now,I have decided, the greatest video game I've ever experienced (4 times so far).Blood and Wine cannot come soon enough...Masterful.
  3. Palmaero
    Oct 19, 2015
    10
    Amazing expansion. Awesome story. Great characters. Improved boss fights. Just amazing.
    It is basically still the same old Witcher 3 but even more improved. I did not think it is even possible but here you are.
  4. jerf
    May 21, 2016
    10
    Great expansion pack with great story. It starts kind of slow, and I was initially disappointed when it started with a mission to kill some monster in the sewers, but then the story quickly starts taking unexpected turns, and builds up to become a really great storyline on par with the best storylines of the original game (such as the Bloody Baron storyline). Overall, a great expansion.
  5. EE061003
    Oct 13, 2015
    10
    The moment I installed this I knew it’s a masterpiece. Freakin awesome DLC. That should be the example to follow. A full fledged game offered in a DLC. Witcher 3 is turning out to be a game of the century. Long Live CDPROJEKTRED. Engrossing story line and new memorable character from the first witcher. In this era of deceptive and disappointing tactics of micro transactions used by otherThe moment I installed this I knew it’s a masterpiece. Freakin awesome DLC. That should be the example to follow. A full fledged game offered in a DLC. Witcher 3 is turning out to be a game of the century. Long Live CDPROJEKTRED. Engrossing story line and new memorable character from the first witcher. In this era of deceptive and disappointing tactics of micro transactions used by other companies to screw gamers outta their wallets CDPROJEKTRED's Witcher 3 is a treat to all gamers across the globe.. Rockstar, Ubi, EA are u guying watching??… Expand
  6. joem282
    Jan 31, 2016
    10
    A great example of what DLC should be. It adds a new crafting system to the game and expands the world a bit. The real treat, however, is the story. Without spoiling anything, I'll say that the antagonist is one of the most interesting I've encountered in a video game, ever. I really enjoyed the 10 hours I put into and I think it's well worth the $15 it cost.
  7. Ani77
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    Hearts of Stone is a class better than the witcher 3.The Story is amazing in every way.The Story of the the witcher 3 wasnt very good in my opinion but the Story of hearts of Stone is outstanding.
    a well written romance which is much more deep than the other ones from the original game.the game is more funny more sexy and sometimes very sad.Thank you CDPR.and a big thank you to the author    Hearts of Stone is a class better than the witcher 3.The Story is amazing in every way.The Story of the the witcher 3 wasnt very good in my opinion but the Story of hearts of Stone is outstanding.
    a well written romance which is much more deep than the other ones from the original game.the game is more funny more sexy and sometimes very sad.Thank you CDPR.and a big thank you to the author of this wonderful written DLC    … Expand
  8. Gamed2long
    Sep 24, 2016
    10
    If you liked the characters of Witcher 3, which I did, this expansion is terrific. Its shorter than the base game, and set in one of the same areas (though it expanded nicely upon a little traveled part of the map). But it is also more condensed. Basically its more awesome in a smaller box. There are some side quests, but not a lot. There are new monsters and bosses which cause you toIf you liked the characters of Witcher 3, which I did, this expansion is terrific. Its shorter than the base game, and set in one of the same areas (though it expanded nicely upon a little traveled part of the map). But it is also more condensed. Basically its more awesome in a smaller box. There are some side quests, but not a lot. There are new monsters and bosses which cause you to re-think battle tactics. There is a new enchanter merchant who can introduce some quality of life improvements. More significantly the main 4 quests are up there with the best quests in the base game, and thats 70% of the expansion right there. The characters are fully fleshed out 3 dimensional beings, despite only one of them appearing in the books. It is fun at times, dark at times and tragic at times. Every quest has a purpose. No fetch runs or pointless collections here. And the environment.... There is a house. Once you see it in the game world, once in someones impressionist painting of it, and once in some sort of nightmare place. The contrast between these impressions of the same place are nothing short of masterful. Far better than one could expect from a new space that would be more of the same. Compared to other DLC out there Hearts of Stone is a bargain and well worth it. I'd go so far as to say "best expansion ever" but I'll have to play blood and wine first to see if that's true.… Expand
  9. Aeryx
    Jan 17, 2021
    10
    As someone who found the main quest of the Witcher 3 to be good if not a bit disappointing, I can guarantee you that Hearts of Stone is my number 1 Witcher universe expansion pack. The writing and story is absolutely top notch and far superior to the main story. It is short but compelling and truly memorable. Iris von Everec is Waifu of the Year and Master of Mirrors wins Most TerrifyingAs someone who found the main quest of the Witcher 3 to be good if not a bit disappointing, I can guarantee you that Hearts of Stone is my number 1 Witcher universe expansion pack. The writing and story is absolutely top notch and far superior to the main story. It is short but compelling and truly memorable. Iris von Everec is Waifu of the Year and Master of Mirrors wins Most Terrifying Best Friend of the Year award. For the low asking price or free if you get the GoTY version, you get an unforgettable experience that will be a gold standard in story-driven RPGs for decades to come.… Expand
  10. Nathonas
    Oct 15, 2015
    10
    I wouldn't exactly call Hearts of Stone an expansion, more like an expanded DLC. Having said that, the story completely blew me away. This is definitely one of the greatest pieces of RPG storytelling ever made. Please CDPR, please make more like this.
  11. PaulJazz24
    Nov 6, 2018
    10
    A masterpiece, like the base game. "Scenes from a marriage" in the most engaging and suggestive gameplay I've ever had in 20 years. Great plot, great dialogues, great cinematics, great voice acting.
  12. Smoothrunner
    Nov 17, 2015
    10
    The Hearts' of Stone story alternates tragic moments with comedy. Fun quest with the ghost on the wedding that transformed into a thriller with the robbery, and then into the dark mystique. It has beautiful design and great graphics (as if you really present in the game world), Slavic lore and authenticity. The characters of HoS are clearly inspired by Ukraine – the hairstyle, sabres,The Hearts' of Stone story alternates tragic moments with comedy. Fun quest with the ghost on the wedding that transformed into a thriller with the robbery, and then into the dark mystique. It has beautiful design and great graphics (as if you really present in the game world), Slavic lore and authenticity. The characters of HoS are clearly inspired by Ukraine – the hairstyle, sabres, closings and earrings of the Zaporozhian Cossacks with Ataman Olgierd (like Cossack Characternik, who considered a mage warrior in Ukrainian mythology). More cards for the exciting mini-game "Gwent", logical consequences of your choices without any false moralizing on the one hand, and savoring the gruesome on another. This is over and above the fact that the level of the story, character depth, dialogues, dynamics and aesthetics of the game is higher than most Hollywood movies.… Expand
  13. jonnx
    Mar 6, 2017
    10
    This games plus its expansions are easily one of the best games ever.

    There are problems, bugs and not finished things, but graphics, music, story, atmosphere.... everything about this game is amazing.
    spent 60$ on the game plus expansions (steam sale), for about 160 hours of great gameplay. 10/10 would recommend.
  14. Bloodyrus
    Mar 28, 2016
    10
    This much better than original game. 10/10

    What can i say else? Main story very intersting, not a lot of quests, but they realy interesting. I can recommend this expantion to everyone
  15. saito200a
    Feb 2, 2020
    10
    Whereas I think Blood and Wine is a bit above HoS, I give this a 10 just because of the characters Olgierd von Everec and Gaunter O'Dimm. Also, possibly the best quest in the game + expansions. You'll know which one when you play it.

    Play this.
  16. xspidermanx322
    May 13, 2016
    10
    They improved upon the one thing that was pretty bad in Witcher 3 and that was the easy boss battles. The story in this expansion is stellar and it is graciously accepted as a longtime Witcher fan.
  17. smuniz83
    Nov 30, 2016
    10
    This is how a DLC should be. Worth your money. A good lengthy story and some new items and features. Feels wish all other RPG were followed up with expansions like this.
  18. DeusXCom
    Dec 1, 2015
    10
    WOW, this is how you do it, one of the best expansions I have ever played. I loved The Witcher 3 and I was expecting this to be just a few more hours of questing, but it took the already fantastic game and improved it further on so many levels.

    First and foremost, the main quest here is just brilliant, it's honestly better than anything in the main game, so fatal, so dark, so good.    WOW, this is how you do it, one of the best expansions I have ever played. I loved The Witcher 3 and I was expecting this to be just a few more hours of questing, but it took the already fantastic game and improved it further on so many levels.

    First and foremost, the main quest here is just brilliant, it's honestly better than anything in the main game, so fatal, so dark, so good.

    The music is fantastic, the main theme in many different forms. I started to first pay attention to it after listening to some random kids on the street singing the song, thinking about it and how it connects to the story, it later become integrated into the music in game, making it so much more impactful, i loved this.

    New armor sets are finally looking elegant and stylish, loving the New Moon set and with the new Runemaster you can improve it to your liking, transform it into the armor type fo your choice and so on.

    Boss Fights!!! Finally really, really good boss fights probably for the first time in this series actually. Something that's been missing from The Witcher 3. This is basically Dark Souls quality. The Frog fight and The Caretaker especially, playing on Death March these were amazing challenges, I died to that frog like 20 times, but as in DS, you learn from your mistakes, learn the patterns and behaviour of your enemy and then with your skill you will beat the boss, satisfaction guaranteed. Even regular monsters are pretty tough around these new parts of the world.

    Shani, my favourite girl from The Witcher 1 strikes back with absolutely amazing romance that puts Yennefer and Triss to shame. Way better than both of those, it's fun, it's romantic and just overall more satisfying.

    So in summary - better quests, better armors, better fights, better romance. I love this Expansion and I'm now seriously looking forward to the next Blood and Wine DLC, because if it's even better than this... oh man. 10/10    … Expand
  19. Treefury
    Dec 9, 2015
    10
    I loved the boss battles in Hearts of Stone; especially the last one. I really enjoyed the story and appreciated the small extension to the map they gave us. I really appreciated the art style at this one particular segment of the game (you'll know). Ending was dope.
  20. Raimoraimo
    Jan 5, 2016
    10
    Brilliant, even better than the brilliant main game. Condensed goodness, the best writing and worldbuilding so far. (Minor minus for the "heist" for trend following but luckily it was not poorly executed)
  21. keitaro202
    Oct 13, 2015
    10
    Perfect in every way. One thing, however, you have to ignore: reviews that bicker over the word "expansion." We have known for several months what this expansion entails and so it makes no sense to criticize it for "oh it doesn't have an extra map and this is more of the same." What does that even mean? Every expansion from every game is more of the same.

    Hearts of Stone has    Perfect in every way. One thing, however, you have to ignore: reviews that bicker over the word "expansion." We have known for several months what this expansion entails and so it makes no sense to criticize it for "oh it doesn't have an extra map and this is more of the same." What does that even mean? Every expansion from every game is more of the same.

    Hearts of Stone has everything you want in any continuation of Geralt's story. It's wonderfully paced and takes you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Remarkable work CD Projekt.    … Expand
  22. NBT
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    I am a fast player .. and i used exactly 10 and a half hour . i guess the half hour wasted are breaks and times i died .. normally when some one promises x amount of hours of new content they are no where near .. but this expansion nailed it to the head. We see again the incredible good story telling made by cd project red, my emotions run high and my heart got raped by the good and darkI am a fast player .. and i used exactly 10 and a half hour . i guess the half hour wasted are breaks and times i died .. normally when some one promises x amount of hours of new content they are no where near .. but this expansion nailed it to the head. We see again the incredible good story telling made by cd project red, my emotions run high and my heart got raped by the good and dark story in this expansion. 10/10 story

    graphics and story got any new stuff, but is as wonderful as always.
    Allot of new songs with an oriental theme has been added that fits perfectly in to the game story. voice acting on the english version is as good as it can be 10/10

    i cant give point for the lack of new quest, but they never said the game will have new side quest in this expansion .. it definitely could be a draw back, but i chose not the remove any points on this side since it never has been announced they would add.

    if you like the witcher 3 story and story telling you will guaranteed love this expansion. Allot has been added ,allot of work has been done , its incredible that this expansions was even that cheap .. if you think on the content vs price you get more content her than some other games have for the full price, this is actually half of a new game or even more with its 10 hour of main story telling .. if CD project keeps spiting out more expansion in that price range , this quality i would happily by them all, after this expansion i started wishing that they instead of doing a new witcher just add 2-3 expansions with 10-30 hours each expansion and i think this game could life as long as world of warcraft .. ohh they also make a movie now that is not based on the game but more books.. that can be nice if you fell in love with the witcher world. The movie will have a hard time to life up to quality in story telling , acting and the world it self, old attempts haven't been very great but wasen't the worst ether    … Expand
  23. Srikantan97
    May 23, 2016
    10
    Excellent expansion, If you want to finish it off completely it will take a mere 13-14 hrs(you have to be perfect), the combat well felt like Witcher 2, was challenging in comparison to the one's witcher 3 boasted of, overall it's a great DLC and will be worth every penny, this is how a dlc is supposed to be when not a standalone dlc!
  24. mos99999
    Oct 17, 2015
    10
    Interesting and funny story. But i think that this game is more fun for Sapkowski's readers, Pols and Slavic ppl. The humor of conversations is great in polish version, one day I have to play english one
  25. Gamebeating
    Oct 20, 2015
    10
    Now thats how you make an expansion to a Open World RPG.
    I dont call it DLC, because it adds so much new stuff to the game, its amazing.
    A fine edition to the main story, even hinting towards how to get the best ending, if you have not finished the main campaign already. Its a perfect display of well done game design and fits right into the world of Witcher 3. Dark and mysterious. This    Now thats how you make an expansion to a Open World RPG.
    I dont call it DLC, because it adds so much new stuff to the game, its amazing.
    A fine edition to the main story, even hinting towards how to get the best ending, if you have not finished the main campaign already.
    Its a perfect display of well done game design and fits right into the world of Witcher 3. Dark and mysterious.
    This definately made me curious about the next expansion.    … Expand
  26. Tylaris
    Oct 14, 2015
    10
    Another fine example of human pettiness and stupidity...while Konami is busy bringing back "legendary" horse armor DLC and Warner Bros selling previously free Batgirl content for ten times it's real value, CDPR releases something that blows away majority of other titles in amount AND quality of it's content, while charging it on a DLC price scale...and a cheap one at that.
    And people    Another fine example of human pettiness and stupidity...while Konami is busy bringing back "legendary" horse armor DLC and Warner Bros selling previously free Batgirl content for ten times it's real value, CDPR releases something that blows away majority of other titles in amount AND quality of it's content, while charging it on a DLC price scale...and a cheap one at that.
    And people STILL complain.
    If you enjoyed the stories of the Wild Hunt, you'll fall in love with this...excellent characterization with great dialogue, strong, compelling themes, more humor and horror, funny Geralt's 11 heist, fun and challenging boss battles with enemies, game play enhancements and more.
    This is a purchase you won't regret.    … Expand
  27. matt79
    Nov 13, 2015
    10
    Great and unique main quest , three amazing new characters, some new gear, new rune mechanics, new types of beasts, nice boss fights. And to think that this is the smaller one of the two expansions included in the season pass (Blood & Wine being the second, coming 2016). CDPR is a game dev god. Powerful and benevolent.
  28. LifeHistory
    Apr 14, 2017
    10
    Mind blowing, an amazing expantion from the best game in the history!

    Thats how you make Quality but this gives you even quantity which is crazy. CD Project Red really cares about how they make their games. They take really good care of it just like an artist cares about its painting. No need to tell you how this expantion is other than its possibly even better than the main game    Mind blowing, an amazing expantion from the best game in the history!

    Thats how you make Quality but this gives you even quantity which is crazy. CD Project Red really cares about how they make their games. They take really good care of it just like an artist cares about its painting.

    No need to tell you how this expantion is other than its possibly even better than the main game which already was almost too perfect.    … Expand
  29. JackKasket
    Oct 18, 2015
    10
    Awesome DLC, and well worth every penny/cent.

    I guess why I like this DLC better than the original from the get go is that I'm already emotionally invested on Geralt anc Co. unlike in the beginning of the original Witcher 3. From the very beginning, the new story feels like a new start of a roleplaying campaign after finishing an awesome session a few months back. It's just great to be    Awesome DLC, and well worth every penny/cent.

    I guess why I like this DLC better than the original from the get go is that I'm already emotionally invested on Geralt anc Co. unlike in the beginning of the original Witcher 3. From the very beginning, the new story feels like a new start of a roleplaying campaign after finishing an awesome session a few months back. It's just great to be on the saddle again.

    Some people might have expected this DLC to be a continuation on the original story, but honestly, that makes absolutely no sense. If you indeed finished the whole main story, you'll see that there is no way the story could continue on the same tracks. It's a new mission for Geralt in a long line of new missions.

    And why it works?

    Because witchers' gonna witch.    … Expand
  30. defiler007
    Nov 19, 2015
    10
    Although I am a seasoned pc gamer, the story of this dlc is one of the most well-thought, entertaining, and unexpected I have ever encountered.
    Extreme attention to detail, and the story puts Geralt in more everyday life situations and lets you see what happens. The length is satisfying, as are the characters, sounds and graphics. There are enough side quests and plot twists to keep you    Although I am a seasoned pc gamer, the story of this dlc is one of the most well-thought, entertaining, and unexpected I have ever encountered.
    Extreme attention to detail, and the story puts Geralt in more everyday life situations and lets you see what happens. The length is satisfying, as are the characters, sounds and graphics. There are enough side quests and plot twists to keep you on the edge for at least 15-20 hours. The only downside is the horrific, dull and flat voice acting of Geralt. Beyond this, it is a perfect experience!    … Expand
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#5 Best PC Game of 2015
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89

Generally favorable reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 37
  3. Negative: 0 out of 37
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Jul 6, 2016
    95
    With Geralt's final adventure coming to an end, CD Projekt Red did a masterful job. Action, intrigue, love and Gwent - it's all there and it's better than ever. Truly a finale worthy of the legendary Witcher.
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  2. PC Invasion
    May 31, 2016
    90
    Hearts of Stone is an essential pickup if you’re playing The Witcher 3.
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  3. CD-Action
    Dec 16, 2015
    90
    12 hour long expansion almost as good as the original game. [12/2015, p.42]
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