CD Projekt Red’s next mainline witcher game, codenamed Polaris, is at least three years away, according to studio president and co-CEO Adam Kiciński.
Following the studio’s announcement that it plans to release a new trilogy of The Witcher films in six years starting with Polaris, Kishinski was asked: call for investors When players can expect the release of the next mainline game.
“We are preparing our tech for Polaris. This is the first project to be released with our new engine, Unreal Engine 5. [so] It takes extra work to make this technology,” he said.
Kiciński went on to say that with this foundation now being created, the second and third new Witcher trilogy games would go more smoothly. Asked if it was reasonable to see the next mainline game more than three years away, since each “smoother” game takes an average of three years, Kishinski said yes.
However, the Polaris was only announced in March, so 3 years may still be early in this assessment. Senior Vice President of Business Development Michał Nowakowski said on the same conference call that based on past experience, creating a new game with new technology like what CD Projekt Red is doing with Polaris usually requires I commented that it would take 4-5 years. This case.
CD Projekt Red has confirmed ahead of the call that at least five new Witcher games will be released in the next few years, along with games based on the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel and the studio’s first new IP.
Outside of Polaris and its two sequels, CD Projekt Red’s The Molasses Flood studio is working on a new Witcher game with multiplayer elements, and a third, currently unidentified developer is working on another “full blown Witcher game”. is creating
Little is known about any of the games, however, thanks to CD Projekt Red announcing that they entered pre-production in May and that they’re being developed using Unreal Engine 5, Polaris has confirmed that It’s the only game with context behind it.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He talks about witchers all day long.
