Gwent wasn’t even part of the plan.Created by a pair of designers at CD Projekt Red in their spare time, the card game eventually found its way into The Witcher 3 and became a small phenomenon: the minigame that was so good, it just had to find life in the outside world. A few months after The Witcher 3 was released, CD Projekt was still being flooded with emails about Gwent. Lead designer Damien Monnier, one of the card game’s co-creators, took those emails to the leadership. They asked if it was possible to make a standalone game. A multiplayer game. Of course he said yes.