Earlier this yr CD Projekt Pink introduced a yet-unnamed The Witcher 4 (opens in new tab), the start of a brand new “saga” for The Witcher—which now appears prone to be a trilogy. “We stated that there shall be a brand new saga. We bear in mind a couple of,” CEO Adam Kiciński stated in the present day throughout a monetary earnings name.
“The primary saga was three video games, so now we’re interested by a couple of sport,” Kiciński stated. “However we’re in pre-production of the primary sport from the second Witcher saga.” Kiciński reiterated that the present sequel is being developed in Unreal Engine 5, a giant shift away from CD Projekt’s personal inner instruments.
CD Projekt’s long-term planning makes it sound like the primary sport in its new saga may plant seeds for future entries, most likely much more intentionally than the unique Witcher did. The Witcher 2 supplied up extra connective tissue for The Witcher 3, together with save information that carried over your relationships with a number of characters (and whether or not they’re even alive).
If CD Projekt is sketching out an entire trilogy from the get-go, may we even see a Mass Impact-style throughline between video games, with choices that carry via all three? It is a cool risk to contemplate, although it will doubtless be a decade earlier than we may see an concept like that bear fruit.
Regardless of the identify of the following Witcher sport is, it will not truly be The Witcher 4. “The Witcher was designed as a trilogy and a trilogy can’t have a fourth half, can it?” CD Projekt’s Marcin Iwinski stated again in 2017. We do not know far more about it, apart from that it is in pre-production, and that there is a good likelihood it focuses on the Lynx college department of witchers, based mostly on the pendant within the teaser picture CD Projekt launched a number of months in the past.
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