Witcher 4, 5 and 6 Still Targeting Incredibly Ambitious Launch Window

Witcher 4, 5 and 6 Still Targeting Incredibly Ambitious Launch Window

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The Witcher 4, 5, and 6 remain on track to release within a six-year span, CD Projekt Red has confirmed. The award-winning developer has thus reiterated an aggressive launch window target first floated years ago, shortly after The Witcher 4 and its two sequels were confirmed to be happening.

The plan dates back to October 2022, seven months following CDPR's first teaser for a new The Witcher RPG saga. At the time, the studio announced it intended to follow up on its critically acclaimed trilogy with another trio of games centered not on Geralt, but on a different protagonist, later revealed to be an older Ciri. Two additional details were shared: the first installment was code-named Project Polaris, and the entire Unreal Engine 5-powered trilogy was planned to release over just six years—an unusually short timeline for such an ambitious undertaking in modern game development.

A Warhorse Studios veteran who held several senior roles on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 joins The Witcher 4 team in a key position.

During a late November 2025 earnings call following the publication of the company's financial report, CDPR co-CEO Michal Nowakowski was asked for a status update on the new...

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