Everything you need to know about The Witcher 4: Story, rumours and more
(Pocket-lint) — The Witcher saga has become a cross-cultural phenomenon, with " rel="" target="_blank">Netflix's TV adaptation of the source books only enhancing the interest in CD Projekt Red's series of games about Geralt of Rivia.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt came out back in 2015 and, a couple of excellent expansions aside, is the last full game in The Witcher series, but we now know another is coming. Find out all the key details, right here.
CD Projekt Red announced the next Witcher game was in the works in March 2022, confirming rumours that it would indeed be returning to the dark fantasy world after its extensive dabble with science fiction in the form of Cyberpunk 2077.
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However this announcement is clearly a very early one — it's obvious from the language that the game is still in the early stages of development, and the developer simply wanted to let people know what it was embarking on, rather than giving any really concrete details.
The announcement does have a couple of key details, though, including the fact that the game will be built on Epic's Unreal Engine 5, rather than CD Projekt's own engine like most of its games historically. This is a major change but might be a canny reaction to the huge technical issues that plagued Cyberpunk on its release.
However, there is no timeline on a release date or even a window — the game is still a long way off, although it finished the concept phase and moved to pre-production in May 2022, according to its developers.
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This still means we're realistically at least two or three years away from any sort of release window, though, so
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