15 Biggest WTF Moments In The Witcher Trilogy

5. The Romance Cards

The Witcher games have always been rather lose when it comes to sex and sexuality, and while this has long been one of the more notorious and inexplicably controversial design elements of the series, the original Witcher was especially controversial for the way it seemingly turned sleeping around into a sport in itself.

In the game, whenever Geralt sleeps with a female character you are awarded a trophy in the form of a Romance card. Each Romance card you collect depicts the lady Geralt spent the night with in various forms of undress. These cards were basically used as cheap substitutes for fully animated sex scenes, something the following games would later incorporate as their scope and budgets got bigger.

It’s admittedly one of the stranger aspects of the original game, and there’s no denying a certain creep factor one might feel towards the way it appears to encourage you to sleep with as many NPCs as possible in order to collect all the cards. It certainly had its detractors, with many claiming it dehumanizes and objectifies women.

Regardless of whether it tickles your fancy or turns you off completely, for better or worse it remains one of the more peculiar design choices of the first game in the series.