The Witcher 4 is finally starting to take shape

Development The Witcher 4 took a key step by moving to full production stage. CD Projekt RED confirmed the news on Tuesday, after the first game in the new trilogy has been in pre-production since its 2022 announcement.

Sebastian Kalembadirector The Witcher 4noted that work on the game, developed using Unreal Engine 5, is progressing at a rapid pace, but the team in charge is still facing important challenges at this stage.

“New challenges are just around the corner, and it is the talented and hardworking people [del estudio] the ones that make me believe that together we can make the next saga The Witcher it will be an extraordinary experience,” Kalemba wrote on X (Twitter).

Michal Nowakowski, CEO of CD Projekt, also expressed his excitement about the development The Witcher 4. “Enter the production stage [Project] Polaris is an important step in our journey to create games and achieve our long-term strategic goals. Let’s go, team, let’s go!” the leader remarked.

Novakovsky’s link to Project Polaris It is precisely because of the code name by which the company is known within the country. The Witcher 4. It is the first part of a new trilogy based on the universe created by Andrzej Sapkowski, and one of numerous projects based on the said intellectual property that the company is working on.

Details about The Witcher 4 There are still quite a few of them. The new game from CD Projekt RED began pre-production with about 150 people working on the project, although in November last year there were already 330. At the time it was indicated that this number would increase to more than 400 by the middle of this year.

The Witcher 4 enters full-scale production stage

Project Polaris was announced as an open-world narrative RPG based on Legacy The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. While not much is known about the game’s plot, there are high hopes for Lynx School. This became apparent after the presentation of the game’s first promotional image, which included an allegorical medallion, and was later confirmed by the developers.

The interesting thing is that Lynx School was created by fans The Witcher and there is no mention of it in Sapkowski’s original novels or previous CD Projekt RED games. This way the company will have freedom implement and adapt elements fanfiction to the saga canonhand in hand with The Witcher 4.

As for the game itself, no release date yet. In its statement, the Polish company indicated that the development The Witcher 4 This will take about three years, so we’ll see if more definitive news on this comes out at some point in 2025. Let’s not forget that the studio has a very ambitious plan, according to which it intends to release the other two games in the trilogy 6 years after the debut of Project Polaris.

In addition to The Witcher 4 and its sequels, CD Projekt has two more projects in the works. On the one hand there is Project Siriusan initiative of the American studio The Molasses Flood. On the other hand, the remake The Witcher with Unreal Engine 5, known internally as Big Dogwhich is in the hands of the Fool Theory.