The Witcher 4: Everything we know about CD Projekt Red’s new Witcher saga

polygon.com:

A new Witcher game is in development at CD Projekt Red, the studio responsible for The Witcher trilogy and spinoffs like Gwent, but details about the next entry in the fantasy video game series are scant. But we do know the game, which is being developed under the codename Polaris, will kick off a “new saga” for the Witcher brand.

“We aim to release two more Witcher games after Polaris, creating a new AAA RPG trilogy,” CD Projekt Red said in 2022.

CD Projekt Red is moving away from using its internal REDengine, the technology that powered The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and will instead use Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5. CD Projekt and Epic announced a “multi-year strategic partnership” in March 2022, and as part of that arrangement, developers from CD Projekt Red will collaborate with Epic “with the primary goal being to help tailor [Unreal Engine] for open-world experiences.” Based on that language, the next Witcher game will be another open-world adventure.

CD Projekt hasn’t announced a final title, gameplay details, or a release date for the fourth mainline entry in The Witcher. We don’t know the story or what characters will be in it. Here’s everything we do know about the new Witcher saga.

The one very visible clue that CD Projekt Red has offered about its new Witcher saga is artwork of a medallion buried in snow. Originally interpreted by some to be a reference to the School of the Cat from The Witcher lore, CD Projekt Red global communication director Robert Malinowski clarified to Eurogamer after the project’s reveal that the medallion is made to resemble a lynx. Granted, a lynx is a genus within the cat family, but The Witcher book series and games do not canonically feature a School of the Lynx. (Geralt is, of course, a witcher from the School of the Wolf.)

But a great deal of speculation has pointed toward Ciri from The Witcher series, who reclaimed a cat medallion from witcher-killing bounty hunter Leo Bonhart (and wore