Depends on what you ' re looking for . I guess Skyrim is a better sandbox game . I ' ll always consider it the best tech demo ever for what the previous generation of consoles were capable of . That said , I got tired of it fairly quickly and quit it cold turkey . I found the combat boring , bland and repetitive . Witcher 3 isn ' t as much of a sandbox world but it ' s still open world with hundreds of things to do outside of the main quest . The story is much , much better than Skyrim ' s , the characters actually have depth and personality as opposed to Skyrim ' s which just felt like puppets , and the combat is much more interesting and fun . I ' ll fully admit to my biases because I consider Witcher 3 to be the best video game ever made while Skyrim was a disappointment , but I ' ll always recommend Witcher 3 to anyone who enjoys video games .