If You Love The Witcher, You Need To Play Thronebreaker
Not enough people have played Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales. This spin-off is a quality RPG with writing, voice acting, and tricky moral conundrums on par with The Witcher 3. But I get why people might have let it pass them by. It's not a big, sprawling open-world adventure where you run around a stunning fantasy world slaying monsters. Instead, it's essentially a single-player campaign for the digital card game Gwent.
When I played The Witcher 3, I didn't give a shit about Gwent. The only time I played it was when the game forced me to as part of a quest. I know people who loved it, but I took every opportunity to ignore it. So when I first heard about Thronebreaker, I can't say I paid much attention to it. I figured it would be a bunch of boring Gwent card battles strung together with cutscenes. But I was wrong. So wrong. Maybe more wrong than I've ever been.
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In Thronebreaker you play as Meve, a warrior queen with a gleaming suit of golden armour, a broad Yorkshire accent, and a no-nonsense approach to ruling. She's amazing, and easily the equal of Geralt of Rivia when it comes to being the hero of a Witcher story. Playing as royalty might not sound as exciting as being a potion-swigging monster killer, but Meve is the kind of monarch who'd rather have a sword in her hand than a goblet of wine.
The story concerns the Nilfgaardian invasion of the Northern Kingdoms, which Geralt witnesses the immediate aftermath of in The Witcher 3. Meve has been driven from her land and is on a dangerous mission to forge alliances, rebuild her army, and drive the invaders back. While the White Wolf is a drifter who goes where the coin is, Meve is a very different
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