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Originally Posted by Dia.

I was able to work out the timelines from name drops of the city that fell and other references and I'd never played the games. Absolutely loved the series, one of the best Netflix Originals yet.

HOW have you never played Witcher 3??

Witcher 2 is a great game too. The difficulty scale is a bit off (it's VERY hard for the first few hours and gets increasingly easy as you skill up) but the storyline is great; much smaller scale than 3 (it's not open world) but that's not necessarily a bad thing IMO, tonnes of character and "big set pieces".

Witcher 1 is pretty dated to the point of not being all that playable at this point but meh... you get more than enough background from the TV show to jump in at 2 (or even 3, though I do recommend 2 anyway).