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A brand new Witcher recreation is in improvement at CD Projekt Pink, the studio liable for The Witcher trilogy and spinoffs like Gwent<\/em>, however particulars in regards to the subsequent entry within the fantasy online game sequence are scant. However we do know the sport, which is being developed below the codename Polaris<\/em>, will kick off a \u201cnew saga\u201d for the Witcher model.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe goal to launch two extra Witcher video games after Polaris<\/em>, creating a brand new AAA RPG trilogy,\u201d CD Projekt Pink mentioned in 2022. <\/p>\n

CD Projekt Pink is shifting away from utilizing its inside REDengine, the know-how that powered The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings<\/em> and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/em>, and can as an alternative use Epic Video games\u2019 Unreal Engine 5. CD Projekt and Epic introduced a \u201cmulti-year strategic partnership\u201d in March 2022, and as a part of that association, builders from CD Projekt Pink will collaborate with Epic \u201cwith the first aim being to assist tailor [Unreal Engine] for open-world experiences.\u201d Based mostly on that language, the following Witcher recreation will probably be one other open-world journey. <\/p>\n

CD Projekt hasn\u2019t introduced a remaining title, gameplay particulars, or a launch date for the fourth mainline entry in The Witcher. We don\u2019t know the story or what characters will probably be in it. Right here\u2019s all the things we do<\/em> know in regards to the new Witcher saga.<\/p>\n

The Faculty of the Lynx<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The one very seen clue that CD Projekt Pink has provided about its new Witcher saga is paintings of a medallion buried in snow. Initially interpreted by some to be a reference to the Faculty of the Cat from The Witcher lore, CD Projekt Pink world communication director Robert Malinowski clarified to Eurogamer after the undertaking\u2019s reveal that the medallion is made to resemble a lynx. Granted, a lynx is a genus inside<\/em> the cat household, however The Witcher e book sequence and video games don’t canonically characteristic a Faculty of the Lynx. (Geralt is, in fact, a witcher from the Faculty of the Wolf.)<\/p>\n

However a substantial amount of hypothesis has pointed towards Ciri from The Witcher sequence, who reclaimed a cat medallion from witcher-killing bounty hunter Leo Bonhart (and wore it herself), main the brand new Witcher saga, because of this complete cat\/lynx affiliation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s (most likely) not an Epic Video games Retailer unique<\/strong><\/h2>\n

CD Projekt Pink and Epic Video games are having fun with a \u201cmulti-year strategic partnership,\u201d the businesses mentioned, however that doesn\u2019t imply that the following Witcher online game will probably be unique to Epic Video games\u2019 digital storefront. Whereas Epic has invested many hundreds of thousands into securing Epic Video games Retailer-exclusive video games, that type of association doesn\u2019t seem like on the playing cards for the following Witcher. Or, on the very least, CD Projekt wants to downplay the possibility that there\u2019s any sort of exclusivity<\/a> occurring. In spite of everything, CD Projekt has its personal video games storefront, GOG.com, and has loved multiplatform success over the previous decade.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s (most likely) not named The Witcher 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n

CD Projekt Pink\u2019s Marcin Iwinski advised Polygon manner again in 2013 that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/em> (and its two expansions) marked the top of Geralt\u2019s trilogy. And after the brand new Witcher recreation was introduced, CD Projekt global PR director Radek Grabowski stressed on Twitter<\/a>, \u201cWhat we’ve NOT introduced right now [is a] recreation referred to as The Witcher 4<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Followers and members of the media will probably proceed to seek advice from the brand new recreation as The Witcher 4<\/em> anyway, as a result of that\u2019s simple shorthand till CD Projekt Pink offers us a correct title for the undertaking. Even CDPR chief technique officer Adam Kici\u0144ski casually referred to the sport as The Witcher 4<\/em> in 2023 throughout an earnings name, which the developer later referred to as a \u201cslip of the tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not simply \u201cThe Witcher 3 in new clothes\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At the least, that\u2019s what CD Projekt Pink says. In March 2024, when the brand new Witcher recreation was nonetheless in its pre-production section, CDPR joint CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski mentioned throughout an earnings Q&A that the developer is \u201cmaking an attempt to push new boundaries and discover new fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI assume what I\u2019m saying is that you simply shouldn’t be anticipating \u2018The Witcher 3<\/em> in new clothes\u2019 of kinds,\u201d Nowakowski mentioned. \u201cIn fact we\u2019re constructing on the shoulders of what got here earlier than, and on what we\u2019ve discovered, however we will probably be including new gameplay parts and new mechanics that you haven’t seen in our earlier video games. I\u2019d say \u2014 doing such issues is at all times a danger; it\u2019s not simply repeating what was completed earlier than.\u201d<\/p>\n

The brand new Witcher recreation doesn’t have a launch date<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Given CD Projekt Pink\u2019s improvement historical past, it\u2019s fairly protected to foretell we gained\u2019t get our fingers on the brand new Witcher saga any time quickly. The final recreation within the franchise, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/em>, entered improvement in the summertime of 2011, nevertheless it wasn\u2019t formally introduced till two years later. And the ultimate recreation didn\u2019t ship till Could 2015. The studio\u2019s most up-to-date recreation, Cyberpunk 2077<\/em>, was first teased again in 2012, and it took a grueling eight years to lastly arrive (and in not-so-great form both).<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say, the following Witcher recreation is probably going years away. CD Projekt Pink is not going to solely take ample time to construct its new saga, however will virtually assuredly spend further time sharpening and bug-squashing its follow-up to the Witcher trilogy, as a result of it merely can\u2019t repeat the errors it made with Cyberpunk 2077<\/em>.<\/p>\n

CDPR joint CEO Adam Badowski advised Reuters in January 2024 that the corporate anticipated to have \u201cround 400 individuals engaged on the undertaking by the center of the yr,\u201d so improvement on the following Witcher recreation is unquestionably making progress.<\/p>\n

What we expect we all know<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Based mostly on the occasions of The Witcher 3<\/em> and its many choice-based endings, good and unhealthy, there\u2019s lots to invest in regards to the sequence\u2019 new path within the wake of Geralt\u2019s story. If you wish to learn in regards to the potentialities, right here\u2019s a peek at the place The Witcher would possibly go after Wild Hunt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n