‘The Witcher 4’ won’t be released before 2027 though
By Ali Shutler 1st December 2025
Ciri in 'The Witcher 4'. CREDIT: CD Projekt Red
The Witcher boss Michał Nowakowski has confirmed the next game in the beloved series will kickstart a new trilogy that will be released much sooner than expected.
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The Witcher 4 was officially confirmed at the end of last year with an ambitious cinematic trailer that revealed a grown-up Ciri would be the protagonist for the new game. It was teased that The Witcher 4 would “mark the beginning of a new saga” following the events of 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
AdvertisementEarlier this year, developers CD Projekt Red confirmed that fans might be waiting a while for The Witcher 4 with the game not due to be released before 2027 at the earliest.
In a recent financial update, CD Projekt Red’s co-CEO Michał Nowakowski has once again confirmed that The Witcher 4 will not be launching next year although the game is currently in “full-scale production”. However, he did give some promising news about the future of The Witcher franchise.
According to Nowakowski, The Witcher 4 will be the start of a new trilogy with all three games set to be released within a six-year period. “We’ve been using Unreal Engine 5 for The Witcher 4 for almost four years now and we’re very happy with what we’ve achieved. We’re happy with how the engine is evolving and how we are learning how to make it work within a huge open-world game.” Because of this, he believes that “further games should be delivered in a shorter period of time.”
“Our plan still is to launch the whole trilogy within a six-year period, so yes, that would mean we would plan to have a shorter development time between The Witcher 4 and 5, between 5 and 6, and so on.”
RecommendedThe Witcher 4 will see Ciri “embarking on her own journey to become a professional monster slayer,” which is a storyline Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle is “really excited” to see play out.
“She really deserves a stage and we want players to really experience her story because she has so much to tell, so much to prove,” explained game director Sebastian Kalemba. “The amount of challenges that are in front of her give us so much amazing energy and fuel to create an epic saga that we had no choice but to go with it. We all felt that this is the way. I believe this is the super right choice.” Developers have also confirmed that fan-favourite card game Gwent will be making a return.
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