CD Projekt Red Announces Ambitious 6-Year Rollout for New ‘Witcher’ Trilogy – Here Are The Details
CD Projekt Red is aiming high with its next Witcher trilogy, planning to release all three games within a six-year span. The new series will focus on Ciri, and the studio says it wants to shorten the development time between each installment.
Speaking during a recent financial call, CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski explained that the move is partly thanks to Unreal Engine 5, which the company is using for all three games.
“We’ve been using UE5 for The Witcher 4 for almost four years now, and we’re very happy with what we’ve achieved. I think you could have seen some of that with your own eyes with our tech demo reveal at Unreal Fest a couple of months ago,” he said.
“We’re happy with how the engine is evolving through the Epic team’s efforts, and how we are learning how to make it work within a huge open-world game, as TW4 is meant to be.”
Nowakowski added that future Witcher games should come faster. “In a way, yes, I do believe that further games should be delivered in a shorter period of time. 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 TW4 and TW5, between TW5 and TW6 and so on.”
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The plan is ambitious, especially compared to the release schedule of the previous Witcher games. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt arrived four years after The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Based on Nowakowski’s comments, CD Projekt may aim for roughly three years between each of the new games. Assuming The Witcher 4 is ready by November 2027, that would put The Witcher 5 in 2030 and The Witcher 6 in 2033.
CD Projekt currently has 447 people working on The Witcher 4, showing that production is in full swing. The studio has also confirmed that the game will not release in 2026, making 2027 the earliest likely launch.
There are challenges ahead. Console transitions, changes in the gaming industry, and global uncertainties could all affect the schedule. CD Projekt is also working on Cyberpunk 2, which may release in between Witcher titles, as well as a Witcher 1 remake and other projects using the company’s intellectual property.
“We have a lot going on,” Nowakowski said, highlighting the studio’s busy slate.
It’s exciting to see CD Projekt Red committing to a faster rollout of the Witcher trilogy, but six years for three massive open-world games is still a tight schedule. It will be interesting to see if they can pull it off while keeping the quality fans expect.
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