CD Projekt is back on track, as evidenced by the company’s latest financial report. So players are already slowly setting their sights on The Witcher 4, which game director Sebastian Kalemba recently spoke about.
We have known that the fourth part of The Witcher is in development since spring 2022. The project, known under the working title Polaris, will not be a continuation of the existing trilogy, but the beginning of a completely new saga.
Meanwhile, the director of the project, Sebastian Kalemba, recently gave an interview to the Italian portal Lega Nerd. In it, he stated that CD Projekt RED aims to introduce something that has not yet been seen in the RPG genre.
Our priority is to always push boundaries. We want to go beyond them. Compared to current role-playing games, we want to try something new, especially since we work within the boundaries of the genre and focus on its fans. As you can imagine, I can’t say too much, but the idea is to create something that surpasses The Witcher 3 by telling a richer story and creating more intense gameplay.
The point of the above statement, of course, is not to turn the existing Witcher upside down. CDPR wants to stay on track, but the passing years have put limits on innovation. There is still a long wait for the fourth part of the series, which means 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. I think this is obvious. We have certain elements of the narrative that need to be preserved. However, despite everything, this is still the same universe, so we cannot go beyond certain limits.
Therefore, we must follow a strictly defined direction and innovate within its framework. At the same time, of course, we must try to reach new audiences. The Witcher 4 will not be released soon, and quite a lot of time has passed since the release of its predecessor, so we cannot rely 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 entry point for many players, without forgetting long-time fans who still want to experience the adventures of Geralt.
It’s worth adding that Polaris is not the only game in the series that will be released in the next few years. After all, Fool’s Theory has a remake of the first Witcher in development, and CD Projekt-owned studio The Molasses Flood is currently working on Project Sirius.
This means that in the future we will see many new games created in this universe. And today the most recent of them is The Witcher 3, released in 2015.
