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The Witcher IV
The Witcher IV is a single-player, open-world RPG from CD PROJEKT RED. At the start of a new saga, players take on the role of Ciri, a professional monster slayer, and embark on a journey through a brutal dark-fantasy world.
Why it matters
CD Projekt Red's first new Witcher since Wild Hunt — one of the most decorated RPGs ever made — with Ciri taking the lead.
About The Witcher IV
CD Projekt Red is opening a new Witcher saga with Ciri in the lead, a change after three games built around Geralt. The Witcher IV casts her as a working monster hunter, the trade she trained for across the earlier entries, in the same dark fantasy setting readers of Andrzej Sapkowski's books and players of the games already know. It is the studio's first Witcher since Wild Hunt in 2015, and the first built in Unreal Engine 5 rather than the in-house technology behind the previous three.
CD Projekt is targeting 2028, a window joint chief executive Michal Nowakowski gave in a video before Gamescom 2026, and the company was explicit that it is not ready to share an exact date. Read targeting literally. This is the studio whose last major release, Cyberpunk 2077, shipped after repeated delays and still arrived broken on older consoles. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC are expected, though the platform list is not fully confirmed. What has been shown is a technology demo, not real play.
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