Best Mods For The Witcher 3

Summary

• PC is the best way to experience The Witcher 3 with mods that enhance gameplay and visuals for an optimized experience.
• Mod installation in The Witcher 3 is simple: download, add to “Mods” folder, and enjoy more immersive gameplay.
• Various mods available enhance gameplay with features like improved sign effects, auto loot, full EXP, and more.

When one talks about some of the greatest video games ever made, it’s only a matter of time before The Witcher 3 is brought up in this conversation. CD Projekt Red started from very humble beginnings with the first title in the series, which ended up paving the way for a sequel and ultimately culminated in the final title of the trilogy that is considered by many to be an excellent open-world action RPG that is still going strong as a playable — and highly enjoyable — title.

Playing The Witcher 3 on the PC is arguably the best way to experience this masterpiece, mainly due to how one can integrate a whole host of mods to improve one’s time spent with the game. The best Witcher 3 mods that someone can install in their copy of the game can do a great job of optimizing the title in many ways.

Updated January 19, 2025, by Mehrdad Khayyat: After taking a break from The Witcher’s world, now CD Projekt RED is once again back at it, as the fourth entry is under development. This is already enough for the fan base to come back to The Witcher 3 and revisit the old memories.

That being said, there are indeed many ways to make the new run a unique one. The Witcher 3 is one of the games with the most mods released, and some of them really make it a fresh experience, even for completionists.

How To Install The Witcher 3 Mods

Like most games, The Witcher 3 makes it relatively simple to add mods on PC, at least at face value. Here is the general process:

• Head into The Witcher 3‘s install directory.
• Create a new folder entitled “Mods.”
• Download a mod.
• Add the mod’s files to the “Mods” folder.

If a mod’s description has specific installation instructions, please stick to those. The program Vortex can also be a useful tool for coordinating and managing mods for The Witcher 3.

35

Richer Merchants

Downloads: 44,816

The last thing anyone wants to experience in a Western RPG is for players to hoard a ton of loot until they’re on the brink of being encumbered, only to reach a merchant and find out that they don’t have enough gold for players to unload everything they’ve acquired. It may be realistic, but the frustration players experience because of this overshadows everything else in the eyes of many.

The Witcher 3 is no exception here, and players who don’t want to be frustrated by the many traveling pedlars present in the game will love what this simple mod brings to the table. As stated in the title, it gives merchants more gold for Geralt to acquire by selling all the loot he acquires during his adventures.

34

Firearms

Downloads: 48,580

What if The Witcher 3 featured guns? This mod answers this question, excellently. Firearms add new guns to the game as ranged weapons that perfectly align with the game’s overall atmosphere.

Firearms add multiple Flintlock weapons along with different ammunition types. This is a well-thought mod that is quite careful to not make the game far easier. The ammunition is scarce, which makes it work almost like a crossbow so that the player cannot always rely on guns.

Other than that, Geralt cannot just outright buy weapons. The player must follow a progression path to unlock firearms. It’s also important to be on the lookout for new materials to craft ammunition. To increase the damage rate, players can go after higher-tier ammo types.

33

All Containers Glow Without Witcher Senses

Downloads: 52,714

Players hate the idea of holding down a button to try and find interactable items, and it’s a shame that The Witcher 3 doesn’t escape this criticism. Sure, Witcher Senses may make sense from a lore standpoint, but that doesn’t make it any less irritating for players to hold down a button to do everything from solving investigations to discovering lootable containers.

With this mod, lootable containers will glow regardless of whether players are using Witcher Senses or not. Containers with rare loot have a blue aura, making it easier for players to only check out things that are relevant to Geralt and won’t weigh him down unnecessarily.

32

Clean Screen

Downloads: 66,797

Many screen effects take place when players are going through the world in The Witcher 3. While stuff like the screen being marred by a Water Hag’s mud attack and water stains while emerging from underwater still make sense, other inclusions can be rather irritating.

Mainly, the rain, dirt, and glare that stains the screen become annoying after a point. Players want to roleplay as Geralt, not pretend to be a cameraman behind him. People who find these screen effects to be irritating can download the Clean Screen mod, which removes all the screen effects that appear in the game. Players can download more toned-down versions that only affect certain aspects of the game, which is great for those with specific caveats about this aspect of The Witcher 3.

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Blood Trails

Downloads: 68,408

Combat in The Witcher 3 is a dance of death that Geralt can participate in, slashing and dicing both humans and monsters to bits in no time. His effectiveness in combat can be increased quite a bit with a wealth of moves that let him move around freely as enemies fall to his might one at a time.

The Witcher 3 is pretty gory, but there’s always scope for this action to be visually poetic in its own way. Blood Trails adds a streak of red to Geralt’s attacks as he slices and dices his way through enemies, making for a blast as players turn the battlefield into a celebration of gore time and time again.

30

Grammar Of The Path

Downloads: 70,772

The Witcher 3 is a story-heavy title where players will be listening to dialogue and reading texts quite a bit. This makes it important to ensure that the game doesn’t have any typos in its presentation that might detract from the overall experience.

The Grammar of the Path mod serves as a simple yet great mod that takes care of the many typos and other such mistakes in the game’s text. It’s a massive undertaking that has gone a long way in ensuring that players don’t get jolted out of their immersion after witnessing such a typo in the game.

29

Friendly Meditation

Downloads: 93,924

Meditation is a key part of The Witcher 3, with Geralt needing to rest up to restore his potion stock, conveniently pass the time, and even heal up at lower difficulties. However, the idea of going to a different screen altogether to trigger this can seem slightly dated for a game that should be able to render this act in real time, especially on modern hardware.

For these players, the Friendly Meditation mod is the way to go. It’s a simple tweak that allows players to press or hold a button to trigger Geralt’s meditation, with the environment and weather being altered accordingly. The cinematic nature of this mod can’t be emphasized enough, and players who want to appreciate the changing state of the world of The Witcher 3 will love what this mod has to offer.

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Immersive Sound

Downloads: 99,650

Immersive Sound is a simple yet great mod that players can download if they don’t want the world to sound rather odd at moments. A great example of this is how this mod tweaks Geralt’s comments so that he doesn’t comment on the weather changing a few minutes after it already happened, which made him sound pretty stupid.

The Place of Power sound effects have also been altered to be less annoying when players frequent these areas too much. A great change this mod makes is increasing the distance from which Geralt can interact with items, which allows him to interact with certain NPCs like innkeepers from behind the counter without having to go around in some instances, which can be a rather simple yet noticeable immersion breaker for some.

27

Friendly HUD

Downloads: 103,287

The HUD of The Witcher 3 certainly does its job, for the most part. That being said, there are still substantial improvements that can be made in this area, which can be achieved with this mod.

The Friendly HUD mod adds a number of options that allow players to customize their HUD elements and layout. Players who consider the HUD to be essential for immersion’s sake will find this to be one of their personal must-have Witcher 3 mods.

26

Fast Launch

Downloads: 142,368

Most modern games start off with many introductory videos that are usually non-skippable. These include videos mentioning the developer, the publisher, and the engine used, among other such information that becomes really irritating to witness over and over again.

Thankfully, there’s a simple mod that stops all the intro videos in the game from playing. This lets players jump into the game from the get-go instead of sitting through this redundant information every single time they just want to sit down and enjoy the game.

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New Hairstyles And Beards For Geralt

Downloads: 145,926

While there’s no denying that the various looks for Geralt across the game’s many hairdressers are pretty decent, some people may find it a bit limiting. Sure, CD Projekt Red added in a lot of new looks, but more variety is always better. Thankfully, several mods do a great job of letting players change Geralt’s look as much as they want.

This self-explanatory mod does a great job of letting players cycle through a wealth of new and engaging looks for players to enjoy. Players can make Geralt look so different that he can be hard to recognize after a point, with one look enhancing his beard to a ridiculous extent while others give him the look of characters like Olgierd.

24

Names From The Path

Downloads: 146,074

Authenticity and completeness are something that most players treasure, especially in the modern age when many games are shipped out in an unfinished state. This unacceptable practice is slowly becoming the norm, to the point where games without any technical issues or cut content are praised to the moon and back for fulfilling this bare minimum.

Given how massive The Witcher 3 is, it’s only a given that this game also features some cut content that didn’t make it to the final product. Names from the Path is a mod that serves to restore some of this removed content, restoring and correcting more than 250 NPC names in the game to allow for a greater sense of immersion as players explore the game’s wonderful world.

23

Characters Reworked Project

Downloads: 185,055

There’s no denying that the characters in The Witcher 3 look amazing, with the sheer quality of the models and textures being exemplary. It’s a shame that CD Projekt Red is abandoning REDengine, since it gave their games a unique look. Whether Unreal Engine will be able to replicate this game feel is something that players won’t know until a new Witcher game comes to light, but players can always enjoy what they have right now.

Players who feel like the character models in The Witcher 3 could use a facelift can use the Characters Reworked Project mod to enhance the beauty of these people in-game. The change is subtle but something that long-time fans of the title will notice if they’re familiar with its visual quality.

22

Brothers In Arms

Downloads: 255,315

Brothers in Arms is a mod that is downright crucial for players who want to enjoy the definitive Witcher 3 experience. While it’s true that the vanilla game itself has been polished to a T, there’s always scope for improvement in this department. This mod brings more than 5,000 fixes to the table, polishing the game to a level that will blow most players’ minds.

Quests, dialogue, gameplay, journal entries, and visuals are all cleaned up to omit as many errors as possible. This mod also restores some cut content, letting players experience CD Projekt Red’s masterpiece the way they intended. It’s a crucial mod and a great example of what passionate fans can achieve when they put their minds to something.

21

Hoods

Downloads: 280,222

Given that a lot of the best trailers for The Witcher 3 feature this character wearing a hood so that other people aren’t fazed by his unique appearance, it’s rather odd to see that there are no hoods in The Witcher 3 that players can wear to conceal their identity. The game suffers from a fair bit of clipping if players wear varying armor sets, but adding hoods and cloaks could have done a great job of adding more visual variety to Geralt’s outfits.

Players who want their version of Geralt to wear hoods and look even cooler than he already is can use a mod that adds these hoods to the game. It’s a simple visual change that players can toggle on or off whenever they please, making it way more fun to engage in combat and conversations with Geralt amping up the mysteriousness.

20

New Clouds

Downloads: 414,290

The world of The Witcher 3 is full of beautiful landscapes with pollution-free weather that always makes the sky shine during the daytime. While the game was quite gorgeous when it launched, by today’s standards, some graphical aspects might be outdated, including the clouds.

New Clouds might sound like an unnecessary mod, but it’s only after the installation that one can realize the significant difference. This high-quality cloud texture pack gives the landscape views a fresh life, forcing players to take a moment and take some screenshots, no matter if it’s early in the morning or near sunset.

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AutoLoot

Downloads: 606,375

It might not be the most irritating thing in the world to loot items in The Witcher 3; however, there are times when having to loot each and every container in the game’s world can become somewhat irritating.

With the AutoLoot mod, this issue becomes a thing of the past. Now, players can configure this system to loot the items they want from containers without any manual input, which is certainly great indeed.

18

Realistic Weather

Downloads: 711,180

Compatible with The Witcher 3: Complete Edition, this mod just gives an impressive feel to all the different weather styles in the game. By improving the rain, snow, and storm effects, Realistic Weather does a fantastic job of elevating The Witcher 3 experience.

Aside from contributing to the visual quality, this mod also adds more weather styles to every region of the game, even the ones that never had intense weather originally. When it comes to Skellige, the mod adds more snow to the region to give it a much better look.

17

Improved Sign Effects

Downloads: 757,550

The various Signs that Geralt can use in The Witcher 3 do a great job of making his arsenal even more diverse and enjoyable to explore. However, some people might find the effects of these Signs to be somewhat underwhelming, especially given their utility in combat.

Players who don’t want to be disappointed time and time again while using these Signs should definitely download the Improved Sign Effects mod. It might be a simple change, but it does make a world of difference when it comes to improving the feel of combat in The Witcher 3.

16

Ultra Gore 2

Downloads: 774,476

Depending on how players approach combat in The Witcher 3, the game can get pretty brutal at times. However, some people feel like the ratio of sword kills to dismemberment is way too low in the game for the visceral nature of the combat to come out swinging.

The Ultra Gore 2 mod aims to make dismemberment a regular occurrence in the game. Watching an enemy’s limbs fly off with a final sword swing makes for a satisfying feeling that never gets old, no matter how many times players repeat this move.