Witcher 3 card game Gwent receiving a new standalone spin-off
The Witcher 3’s competitive card game Gwent is being adapted into a new, single-player, standalone game for release later this year.
The card game, codenamed Project Golden Nekker, is in development at CD Projekt Red’s in-house Gwent team, and aims to be notably different from past iterations of the card game, IGN says in its reveal of the game.
That description sounds similar to 2018’s Thronebreaker: A Witcher Tale, another standalone Gwent game, but CD Projekt Red claims the two will be distinct.
“It’s not another Witcher Tales [game] but something different,” Paweł Burza, communications lead for the Gwent team, told IGN. “We’re aiming to provide a captivating single-player for players who prefer it over competitive multiplayer Gwent.”
Several pieces of concept art have been revealed, including the titular Golden Nekker, a Fire Elemental, Living Fire (which looks like a burning skull), and The Barbarian, which has only now been revealed by IGN. Two other artworks show environmental areas, rather than characters, including a marketplace and a library containing a hiding Golden Nekker.
Although there’s no word yet as to exactly when the game will release, in a developer update stream for the existing Gwent multiplayer game from last December, game director Vladimir Tortsov mentioned the new title and said the team wants “to announce stuff that we’re working on when the time is right”.
IGN also points out that when Thronebreaker was released, its new cards were added to the main, multiplayer version of Gwent. With new cards expected to be released for Gwent in April, July, October, and December this year, Golden Nekker might release in one of those months.
Gwent has gathered quite a following since The Witcher 3 released all
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