The beginning of a new saga for The Witcher!
The Polish development studio CD Projekt Red has confirmed that a new game in the Witcher universe is currently in development and that it will use the Unreal Engine 5 engine. Not much information is yet available about the new game, except the confirmation that this game will start a new saga for the franchise and a new technological partnership with Epic Games.
A new medallion
Unfortunately, the news doesn’t mention a release date either, but the company has released a teaser image to get fans of the series excited. This image features a Witcher medallion with the phrase: A new saga begins.
Some fans are already beginning to theorize about the identity of the main character for this new saga, since the medallion represented is not the one worn by Geralt of Rivia, the main character of the original saga. The medallion would be from a different school, the School of Lynx, which could mean that we will control a Witcher never before seen in this new game.
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CD Projekt Red mentions that the game will not be exclusive to the Epic Games Store despite partnering with Epic.
The studio also says it learned a big lesson after releasing Cyberpunk 2077 in 2020, a lesson they intend to apply to this new Next-Gen game. Here’s hoping it lives up to its predecessor, which won nearly 250 Game of the Year awards when it was released in 2015.