The Witcher 4 won't be "The Witcher 3 in new clothing," CDPR says "we will be adding new gameplay elements and new mechanics" to the RPG
Apr. 1, 2024Expect things “that you have not seen in our previous games”
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The Witcher 4, the best working name we have for the currently untitled project Polaris, will introduce “gameplay elements and new mechanics” not seen in the previous games.
“I guess what I’m saying is that you should not be expecting ‘The Witcher 3 in new clothing’ of sorts; of course we’re building on the shoulders of what came before, and on what we’ve learned, but we will be adding new gameplay elements and new mechanics that you have not seen in our previous games. I’d say doing such things is always a risk; it’s not just repeating what was done before.”
For comparison, 47 developers are working onCyberpunk 2077sequelProject Orion, which is still in the “conceptual phase” of development. Rebooted Witcher spinoff project Sirius is in “early” pre-production with 37 developers on it at CDPR, and many more at main dev The Molasses Flood, a separate CDPR studio known for The Flame in the Flood and Drake Hollow.
The Witcher 1 remake, primarily handled by external studio Fool’s Theory with oversight from CDPR, has relatively few CDPR developers on it and is also in pre-production. “It’s worth noting that the title will be built from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5, and that it will use the toolset we have been developing for Polaris,” CDPR says of The Witcher remake.
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