Understanding Witcher 2 Save Simulation in The Witcher 3 Remastered

With the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, players are prompted at the start to decide whether or not to simulate a save file from the previous title, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. This decision allows key choices from your past journey to carry over into your new playthrough.

Should you simulate your save?

If you want the most complete experience, you should choose to simulate the save. While the game provides sufficient narrative context through its intro and dialogue for newcomers, simulation allows for character interactions and quest inclusions that would otherwise be missing. According to reporting from VGC, the impact is primarily narrative rather than mechanical, offering minor dialogue shifts and one significant quest addition.

Key decisions and their impacts

When you select the simulation option, you will be prompted to make specific choices regarding events from the previous game. Based on community insights attributed to Reddit user RogueRequest2, here is how those choices influence your experience:

* Letho of Gulet: This is the most consequential choice. While the default assumes he is dead, choosing to spare him triggers a specific side quest that is considered well worth playing.
* Sile de Tansarville: Choosing to save her instead of letting her die results in a brief interaction with an NPC in a dungeon later on.
* Aryan La Vallette, Roche or Iorveth, Henselt, and Triss: These choices primarily affect minor interactions or NPC dispositions toward Geralt. In many cases, these decisions have little to no practical impact on the main gameplay loop.

Ultimately, while the simulation doesn’t overhaul the core story, enabling it provides a richer sense of continuity for returning players and opens up at least one additional questline that remains inaccessible otherwise.