The Witcher IV: New Main Character, Geralt's Legacy and Huge Challenges

Probably the biggest announcement at The Game Awards 2024 was The Witcher IV, which is being developed by CD Projekt Red in Poland. The game only went into full production at the end of September 2024, with a team of around 400 developers working on the role-playing game, while the US team is working on the next game in the cyberpunk series. However, the fourth mainline Witcher game will be very different from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The single-player open-world RPG will now feature a new main character, Ciri, who was already playable for a while in the prequel. The engine will also be changed. Instead of the in-house Redengine, a custom version of the Unreal Engine 5 will be used. We talked about this and much more with Narrative Director Philipp Weber and Cinematic Director Kajetan Kapuściński.

Probably the biggest announcement at The Game Awards 2024 was The Witcher IV, which is being developed by CD Projekt Red in Poland. The game only went into full production at the end of September 2024, with a team of around 400 developers working on the role-playing game, while the US team is working on the next game in the cyberpunk series. However, the fourth mainline Witcher game will be very different from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The single-player open-world RPG will now feature a new main character, Ciri, who was already playable for a while in the prequel. The engine will also be changed. Instead of the in-house Redengine, a custom version of the Unreal Engine 5 will be used. We talked about this and much more with Narrative Director Philipp Weber and Cinematic Director Kajetan Kapuściński.