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The Witcher 4: All News About the New Game & Release Date

The new part of the series is already in heavy development. Some details are already known, and it seems that we can look forward to a lot. But we have to stay patient.

Felix Rauhut
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There will certainly be cities in The Witcher 4 as well. Here is a bird's eye view of a medieval town in a long shot from W3: Wild Hunt. We are looking from the rooftops during the day at many beautiful buildings of different sizes with different house facades, roofs, and balconies. In the center of the picture, there is a kind of stone bridge that runs from the front left to the background to the center of the picture. Next to it, a green park with trees and bushes is shown. Smoke is coming out of many chimneys. Behind the city, the landscape with mountains can be seen in the distance, and above we can see the bright sky with white clouds. A release date for the new Witcher game still seems to be a long way off.
Screenshot from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Source: CD Projekt RED)
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It’s not a secret anymore that CD Projekt RED is already working on a new Witcher saga, which players like to call “The Witcher 4” unofficially. What do we know so far, and is there already a release date?

Fans of the popular Witcher series are wondering when The Witcher 4 will finally be released after years of the successful third installment. Since March of this year, we got more information about it.

 

What we know about the new Witcher game

The developer’s CD Projekt RED announced on March 21, 2022, surprisingly via Twitter, that they are working on a new The Witcher title. However, at that time, they had given away neither a name nor more detailed information about the upcoming game.

 

The developers already stated on the official The Witcher website that they are leaving REDengine and developing the new Witcher saga on Unreal Engine 5 in collaboration with Epic Games. Because the story of Geralt of Rivia came to an end with W3, it is very likely that another protagonist will appear in the game this time. Conceivable here would be the daughter Ciri, which would make sense regarding the end of the third installment. Another indication that Ciri might take over the main role is the cat medallion on the Twitter picture. Ciri also has such a medallion, at least in the novel.

In the third person, we see the protagonist in total view on the left side of the image on a white horse. He has reached a bright clearing at the edge of a forest in daylight and is standing on the grassy ground. On the left and in the picture in front of him is a river leading to the center of the picture. The protagonist's gaze leads to a brown stag with antlers, which is just emerging from a conifer forest and is also looking at him. Behind the river and also on the left side, high mountains with more conifers are depicted. We recognize a stone bridge on a rock in the center of the picture behind the river. In the distance, we can see an even higher mountain range sticking out of the picture to the upper left, surrounded by clouds and fog. This natural scenario should also appear in The Witcher 4.
W3: Wild Hunt screenshot (Source: CD Projekt RED)

 

The new Witcher game will be a part of multiple titles

In October 2022, the developers announced in a Tweet that the new saga will consist of three parts. “The Witcher: Codename Polaris”, “The Witcher: Canis Majoris”, and “The Witcher: Sirius”. Fans like to name the first title of the trilogy “The Witcher 4” since it will be the next new game of the franchise. Canis Majoris is said to be created by a third-party developer with the help of former Witcher developers and will provide an open-world RPG singleplayer experience. Sirius, on the other hand, will also include multiplayer and will be developed by The Molasses Flood, a subsidiary studio of CD Projekt.

In the center of the frame, the protagonist is seen in the third person in half-total in daylight. He is standing on a snow-covered mountain and looks at another snow-covered mountain range in front of him in the distance, which takes up most of the frame horizontally. Above it, we glimpse a very bright sky with lots of clouds. A red life bar is shown in the top left corner, and a circular minimap is shown in the top right corner. In the lower right corner, we see interaction aids for the player in a vertical arrangement, and in the lower left corner, we see items displayed, also in a vertical arrangement. The new Witcher game may also be set in the mountains again.
Snowy mountains in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Source: CD Projekt RED)

 

What is the release date of The Witcher 4?

According to the guys over at Gamerant, the release of Codename Polaris (“The Witcher 4”) is still very far away. Adam Kicinski, President of CD Projekt RED, reportedly said in an investor call this fall that the first title of the trilogy will be released 10 years after W3 at the earliest. The time frame is said to be so long because Codename Polaris is based on Unreal Engine 5, and thus the first game represents a lot of work. The upcoming titles Canis Majoris and Sirius should be released much sooner, according to Kicinski. He estimates three years for each game. According to his calculation, the release dates could look like this.

  • The Witcher: Codename Polaris (“Witcher 4”) – Release approx. 2025
  • The Witcher: Canis Majoris – Release approx. 2028
  • The Witcher: Sirius – Release approx. 2031

 

New Game Director for The Witcher Saga

On November 3rd, the former animation director of Cyberpunk 2077, Sebastian Kalemba, announced via Twitter that he will now work on the board of the Witcher developers on the new saga as creative director:

 

Kalemba previously worked as a character animator on W3: Wild Hunt. He also worked as lead animator for a “Hearts of Stone” expansion and as animation director for “Blood and White”. Being a part of such a passionate team is an honor, he said, and he wants to raise the bar for the upcoming The Witcher titles.

 

More great fantasy worlds like in The Witcher 4 to enjoy

The release of the new saga is still a long way off. Unfortunately, this also applies to The Witcher Remake. But we can pass the time well with other excellent fantasy-adventure games. Feel free to check out our rankings of the Best Sandbox Games, Best Open World Games, or the Best Free RPG Games.

 

Which character do you want to see starring in the new “The Witcher 4”? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.


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