The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red is based in Poland, and the company is leaning into its Polish heritage with a fantastic social media post.
Today, February 12, is celebrated as Fat Thursday in Poland. It’s the annual celebration of the last Thursday before Lent begins, and in the country, people eat a lot of food today, including pączkis AKA Polish donuts. To mark the occasion, CDPR released a Witcher-themed image celebrating Fat Thursday featuring 10 hidden pączkis. Can you spot them all? Look for yourself in the image below.
And if you need some help, here’s where to find all of them. If you’re looking for pączkis, they are sold in the US as well, at Polish bakeries and grocery store chains like Big Y right now for the Polish festivities. Seriously, if you like donuts, you owe it to yourself to try a pączki as soon as possible.
CDPR’s global PR director Radek Grabowski said, “The one fact you HAVE to know about Poland: we make a BIG deal out of Fat Thursday.”
CDPR is a very big deal in its home country. In 2014, then-US President Barack Obama said CDPR’s creative output was a great example of how Poland contributes to the global economy. In 2011, Poland’s then-prime minister Donald Tusk gave Obama a copy of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.
By some accounts, The Witcher is Poland’s most successful cultural export in recent history.
The series was created by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, and the franchise rose to new heights of popularity thanks to CDPR’s video game series. The Netflix show based on the books helped grow the popularity and significance of the brand globally as well.
While Netflix’s The Witcher series is ending this year with The Witcher 5, CDPR is developing The Witcher 4 right now, while another Polish studio, Fool’s Theory, is working on a Witcher 1 remake. A Witcher multiplayer game is also in the works.