The authors of The Witcher 4 intend to bring a breath of fresh air to the RPG genre
CD Projekt is back in the ranks, as evidenced by the last financial report of the company. So the players are already slowly aiming at The Witcher 4, which the director of the game Sebastian Kaleba recently spoke about.
The fact that the fourth part of The Witcher has been in development since the spring of 2022. The project, known under the working name Polaris, will not be a continuation of the existing trilogy, but the beginning of a completely new saga.
Meanwhile, the project director – Sebastian Kaleba – recently gave an interview to the Italian portal Lega Nerd. In it, he stated that CD Projekt Red seeks to imagine something that has not yet been in the RPG genre.
Our priority is to always expand the boundaries. We want to go beyond their borders. Compared to the current role-playing games, we want to try something new, especially since we work without going beyond the genre and focus on its fans. As you guess, I can’t say too much, but the idea is to create something superior to The Witcher 3, telling a more saturated story and creating a more tense gameplay.
The meaning of the above statement, of course, is not to turn the existing "Witcher" upside down. CDPR wants to follow the intended path, but the departing years impose restrictions on innovation. A fourth part of the series is waiting for a long time, which means that it is also necessary in order to attract new players who were not always aware of what The Witcher 3 is.
We want to follow the path we have chosen, but this does not mean making identical games. It seems to me that it’s obvious. We have certain elements of the narrative that should be preserved. However, in spite of everything, this is all the same universe, so we cannot go beyond a certain framework.
Therefore, we must follow a strictly defined direction and introduce innovations within its framework. At the same time, of course, we must try to go to a new audience. The Witcher 4 will not be released soon, and from the moment of the release of her predecessor, a lot of time will pass, so we cannot bet only on the existing audience that is associated with the saga.
We also need to create a new community. In this regard, I can say that the game will be an excellent starting threshold for many players, not forgetting about long -standing fans who still want to get acquainted with the adventures of Geralt.
It is worth adding that Polaris is not the only game of the series that will be released in the next few years. After all, in the development of Fool’s Theory there is a remake of the first "Witcher", And the CD Projekt studio The Molasses Flood is now working on Project Sirius.
So, in the future we will find many new games created in this universe. And for today the very last of them is The Witcher 3, published in 2015.