There’s still no release date or window for The Witcher 4. But that’s not stopping CD Projekt Red from stating again that a whole new trilogy might launch within a six-year timespan. That’s been the plan for years, but the company reasserted this position during a recent financial call, according to Eurogamer.
CD Projekt co-CEO Michal Nowakowski was asked about the company utilizing Unreal Engine 5 for The Witcher 4 and whether that could lead to shorter development cycles for future sequels. “In a way, yes, I do believe that further games should be delivered in a shorter period of time–as we had stated before, 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 [The Witcher] 5, between [The Witcher] 5 and [The Witcher] 6 and so on,” Nowakowski said.
Nowakowski’s co-CEO at CD Projekt, Adam Kicinski, discussed this six-year timespan for the new Witcher trilogy in 2022–over three years ago. To be clear, the clock would start ticking on six years once The Witcher 4 launches, and that won’t happen until 2027 at the earliest. If, for example, The Witcher 4 did come out then, that would mean CD Projekt aims for The Witcher 5 to hit in 2030 and The Witcher 6 in 2033.
The Witcher 4 entered “full-scale production” last year and then appeared at The Game Awards 2024 with a trailer. Earlier this year, CD Projekt Red showed off a tech demo of The Witcher 4 running on PS5. While it wasn’t actual gameplay footage, the video saw Ciri standing on a cliff, riding a horse named Kelpie, and entering a port town called Valdrest. The Witcher 4 is actually being developed with consoles in mind first, a change from how Cyberpunk 2077 was developed.
Meanwhile, don’t expect The Witcher 4 to show up at The Game Awards later this month.