The Witcher 3 has been lauded with honors by the score, including garnering Game of the Year from three separate awarding bodies. Skellige is the second of several immersive maps in Warsaw-based CD Projekt Red’s magisterial 2015 game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a series so prized in its home country that back in 2011 Poland’s prime minister gifted a copy of the second game, Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, to Barack Obama. It’s three forty-five AM, and, knowing I have nowhere to go in the morning and no one to greet me when I wake, I’m sailing through the Skellige Islands, the dim light from my handheld Nintendo Switch diffusing over my haggard and unseen face.
