The Witcher gets 88.000 simultaneous users on Steam after the Netflix series

There was quite a fear with the launch of The Witcher series, as it was in danger of imitating Game of Thrones excessively. Netflix has nailed Geralt de Rivia and has managed to make an excellent series. So good is the Witcher series being that it is causing an increase in the sales of the game and the books.

The Witcher was released on Netflix a little over a week ago and the user reviews cannot be better. The series on IMDB has a score of 8.7 out of 10 and on Rotten Tomatoes it has a 93% score. It has also ranked as the third most watched streaming series in the United States, only behind Stranger Things and The Mandalorian from Disney +.

Resounding success of The Witcher

The series is proving to be a remarkably successful franchise, with both the game and the book selling incredibly well. The Witcher 3 reached 48.000 concurrent players on the 23rd of this month . Yesterday it had already reached 70.000 users, and today it surpassed 88.000, an astounding figure. The game's launch saw a peak of 92.000 concurrent users.

Andrzej Sapkowski, writer of the novel based on Geralt of Rivia, has become the most popular writer on Amazon America. He has achieved something almost unthinkable, surpass JK Rowling. Several of the novels based on The Witcher are in the Top 10 best-selling books in the United States. After the publication of the series, book sales have risen 1600% on Amazon Spain, climbing to second place in books sold.

Thanks to this brutal success, CD Project RED will develop a new installment of The Witcher after finishing Cyberpunk 2077. They have also recently closed a new agreement with Andrzej Sapkowski for the publication of a new book.

Source: wccftech