Announced in a surprise reveal at The Game Awards 2024, developer CD Projekt Red sparked a flurry of interest as fans clamour for any information on the game they can get their hands on.
The full release is years away, especially since CDPR is also now working on Cyberpunk 2, so you may want to consider tiding yourself over with Netflix's The Witcher season 4, or even the original novels by Andrzej Sapkowski.
The Witcher 4 release date speculation
We don't have a Witcher 4 release date just yet, but we believe it won't come out until at least 2027. That's because while the first cinematic trailer we've got looks fantastic, the process of the game itself will likely be a very different story - since the developer has more than learnt its lesson from Cyberpunk 2077 the detriment of releasing a game too early.
What's more, combined with the massive undertaking of developing a huge open-world RPG on a different engine than what they've used before, those aforementioned lessons CDPR learned from the release of Cyberpunk 2077 led to them making significant structural changes in their production - making sure development stages and designs better defined and more cohesive respectively.
Then again, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, released in May 2015, had its first trailer revealed in June 2013. That's nowhere near as long a wait, but even if CDPR's improved the production pipeline, it wouldn't come as any surprise if we ended up hearing The Witcher 4 wouldn't come out until late 2027 or even early 2028 instead.
Don't expect it on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch systems, though, given the massive technical limits of the ageing hardware. The Switch successor, aka The Nintendo Switch 2, on the other hand, you never know, but that will depend on its technical capabilities.
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You could always buy The Witcher 3 from Amazon if you haven't played it already, of course, or if you just fancy giving it another play-through before the sequel arrives in stores.
The Witcher 4 gameplay & story details
In the game, Ciri is taking on her own journey to become a professional monster slayer, being a fully-qualified Witcher; she's seemingly gone through the Trial of Grasses - the painful trials of a low survival rate involving potions that alter the nervous system and mutate the body with new abilities, as Geralt went through, shown by the signature cat-like eyes.
Over on the official Witcher website, CD Projekt Red revealed a little bit more as to what sort of journey you're in for in general:
"Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it aims to be the most immersive and ambitious open-world Witcher game to date."
We see Ciri struggle in the fight until she swigs from a flask which gives her Witcher-y powers. It's a very fitting moment since it's one of the signature tropes we'd seen from the past Witcher games and trailers featuring Geralt when fighting horrific beasts.
In June 2025, CD Projekt Red showcased the game in an Unreal Engine tech demo following the studio's move to the engine.
Either way, it's still worth checking out!
Is there a The Witcher 4 trailer?
The six-minute-long cinematic reveal trailer has it all. Intrigue, creepy monsters, folk horror and Ciri, who is the star this time instead of Geralt. It's definitely worth a watch:
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