Why the new Witcher saga may not be available on Steam despite claims of CD Projekt Red
CD Projekt Red's new Witcher game is in the making and has taken the community by storm. It will be the first title since The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt when it eventually releases.
The previous trilogy, featuring Geralt of Rivia, is considered a masterpiece by many within the gaming community. The universe's popularity has seen Andrzej Sapkowski's work adapted to a Netflix series.
On its face, few details were revealed by CD Projekt Red last evening. One important point to note is the engine of the upcoming game. Developers worked on REDengine, which runs its latest release, Cyberpunk 2077.
The new game will be built on Unreal Engine 5 and CD Projekt Red has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Epic. Naturally, fans have started asking for more clarification about possible platforms in the future.
Once the news of the strategic partnership came out, fans started wondering what it meant for the game's future. The most obvious question was over the fact that the game will be an Epic exclusive.
The developers were quick to answer the question. According to them, the new game won't be available on a single-store front on PC. However, the wording still does mean that the game may not be available on Steam when it comes out.
Fears arise due to the trend in the latest games, many of whom stay exclusively on the Epic Games Store. After a certain period, the game then arrives on Steam and other storefronts like GOG. Borderlands 3 is just one example of many popular games that have partially or entirely followed this path.
Based on the developers' responses, such won't be the case with the upcoming Witcher game. The point of multiple storefronts has been emphasized, which would make it seem that the game won't be exclusively
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