The Witcher recreation collection has been a sluggish burn for a lot of and right now, you’re probably skipping the primary two iterations in favor of heading straight for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. This was the one which set the world alight and since then, anybody who has performed it has been clambering for the following journey.

Naturally, this implies The Witcher 4, however will this be a continuation of Geralt’s story or is it a complete new world? Beneath we reveal all, together with any The Witcher 4 release date info, platforms, and any further particulars.

The Witcher 4 release date speculation

At this present second, there isn’t a The Witcher 4 release date however we do have a possible window as to when we can anticipate this extremely anticipated monster-slaying journey.

In a 2022 investor name, CEO Adam Kicinski acknowledged that the sport is “a minimum of three years away”, that means that The Witcher 4 might be launched in 2025. This is able to mark ten years for the reason that launch of The Witcher 3, so would make it a poignant time to release this new title.

Nevertheless, whereas this might be the case, there have been so many video games in current occasions which have obtained delays and The Witcher 4 could have additionally been impacted by this. This is able to imply a 2026, or perhaps a 2027 launch is conceivable.

What platforms may The Witcher 4 be on?

Since we’re anticipating a 2025 release for The Witcher 4 on the very earliest, we anticipate that the sport shall be launched on PS5, Xbox Collection X, and PC, in addition to the following iteration of PlayStation and Xbox consoles.

If the release date does slip even additional although, there’s a risk that the PS5 or Xbox Collection X merely don’t have the ability for it, and it is going to strictly be a subsequent-gen recreation.

Is The Witcher: Polaris a working title?

On that very same investor name, we talked about earlier, Kicinski as soon as extra let slip that The Witcher 4 is the ‘Polaris’ recreation they’re engaged on. Now, recreation growth studios use code names the entire time so as to add a bit secrecy simply in case something goes awry or just because they only don’t need to announce something but.

As for Polaris, we imagine this to be the case additionally, making The Witcher: Polaris a working title reasonably than what the sport shall be referred to as come launch.

Is The Witcher 4 utilizing Unreal Engine 5?

Sure, The Witcher 4 will use Unreal Engine 5 as an alternative of the REDengine of CD Projekt RED’s personal making. This can be a fairly massive deviation for the studio for the reason that beforehand used proprietary engine was used on The Witcher 2, The Witcher 3, and Cyberpunk 2077.

Nevertheless, the rationale could also be that this subsequent iteration of The Witcher franchise is the primary within the subsequent saga, probably requiring the ever-evolving Unreal to be the leaping-off level as an alternative of investing extra and extra into their very own tech.

What we do know for positive although is that these at CD Projekt RED are laborious at work “studying the know-how” and “working along with Epic” to allow as easy a transition for his or her “open-world RPGs”.

Is Ciri The Witcher 4’s principal character?

Ciri is a fan-favourite character that each gamers of the online game and readers of the books are desirous to take up the mantle as the following Witcher. Nevertheless, whereas this might occur, and would make a pleasant transition from The Witcher Three to 4, we don’t assume it is going to come to fruition.

The cause why is that although the medallion proven within the first teaser picture is alluding to a Lynx – considerably of a combination between Geralt’s wolf and College of the Cat, the tip of The Witcher Three makes issues difficult.

The Witcher Three has a number of endings, and within the ‘dangerous’ ending, Ciri dies. Clearly, this implies she wouldn’t be coming again for the fourth title if this happens, and since it is vitally attainable many obtained this ending, the continuity between the 2 sagas simply wouldn’t be there.

Now, there’s no saying that this might be retconned with Ciri in some way ‘coming again to life’ however we do doubt this.

Is Geralt in The Witcher 4?

Geralt did obtain the total starting-to-finish trilogy remedy along with his three video games and seemingly obtained his ‘ending’ in Wild Hunt. Nevertheless, if you happen to did end up that title, you’ll know that there’s a probability Geralt merely rides off into the sundown, leaving it fully open for a return of the grizzled White Wolf.

That is compounded by statements from CDPR Director Marcin Iwiński in 2013 who confirmed that for The Witcher 3, although it was the finale within the saga, they might by no means intend on “killing the world and strolling away from it.”

Regardless of this remark although, The Witcher 4 is the beginning of a brand new saga so CDPR may simply reduce ties and concentrate on a complete new protagonist.