“For the past ten years, the team has been working on swords and castles and medieval Slavic monsters. Iwinski went on to say at the time that The Witcher series “deserves some rest”, or at least the team needs a change. We have invested enormous funds into promoting it, and it’s a very strong brand.” We have full rights to The Witcher games. But please consider us as rational people, we sometimes have weird ideas but overall our thinking is very rational. We invested 15 years of our lives in it and a lot of money.

“The Witcher was designed as a trilogy and a trilogy cannot have a fourth part, can it?” said Iwinski. That was merely an echo of a similar comment made in March 2017 by CD Projekt Red co-founder, Marcin Iwinski, during a CD Projekt Red investor call. This does not mean, of course, that we will leave the world of The Witcher,' said Kiciński in an interview with Bankier. 'The first three 'Witchers' were by definition a trilogy, so we simply could not name the next game 'The Witcher 4'. The saga will consist of three games.'īack in 2018, CD Projekt Red CEO Adam Kiciński basically confirmed that the game won't be called The Witcher 4 too, so you can pretty much count on the fact that this new Witcher game will be something a little different. Polaris will be the first game in a new Witcher saga. However, CDPR was quick to correct its own CEO, providing us with the following statement: 'That was one of the reasons behind saying the strategy that we want to release three big Witcher games within six years, starting from the release of Polaris, which is Witcher 4.'

'But for the next projects, we assume that it should smoothen the production,' he continues. For the first project, Polaris, it will, maybe not slow down, but it won't accelerate the process. 'Some developers are still learning the technology, and at the same time, there are teams working together with Epic on those aspects that are needed for our open-world RPGs. 'We are preparing things on the pipeline side and toolset sides,' he begins. During a recent earnings call, CDPR CEO Adam Kiciński actually called Polaris The Witcher 4 while discussing the implications of the studio's shift to Unreal Engine 5 in partnership with Epic Games.

What is funny though is that it looks like CD Projekt Red isn't adverse to calling it The Witcher 4.

Wither trilogy