This score sounds like it was recorded in a candlelit stone hall somewhere in Eastern Europe and honestly it kind of was. Adam Skorupa and Paweł Błaszczak built The Witcher's 2007 soundtrack on live folk instruments and medieval textures that no other RPG was doing at the time.
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"Evening in the Tavern" has this loose, slightly drunk energy with fiddles and percussion that makes you want to order another round. Then "Dusk of a Northern Kingdom" opens the whole game with choral voices hanging over slow strings, completely setting the tone.
"The Princess Striga" goes full tension with dissonant brass and pounding rhythms. That raw Slavic folk identity before the series blew up. If you only know Wild Hunt's music, go back and hear where it all started.