Don’t Expect The Witcher 4 Any Time Soon, or Maybe Ever

The Witcher trilogy will no doubt go down in history as one of the greatest CRPG series to ever grace our computers, so it’s somewhat bittersweet to report on Eurogamer’s news that CD Projekt RED has no intentions to develop another installment in the near- or even long-term future. But we still have Blood and Wine to look forward to, as well as Cyberpunk 2077 and another CRPG before 2021, so I wouldn’t get too caught up with co-founder Marcin Iwinski’s comments:

I asked him whether the studio will leave The Witcher series for good – following the release of Witcher 3 Blood and Wine on 31st May – or return to it some day, and he said, “We honestly don’t know. We don’t have anything planned as of now to be honest on the next Witcher.

“As we said before, never say never [but] right now it’s really Blood and Wine. This is the end. Blood and Wine is [the] closing and there won’t be any Witcher any time soon – if there ever will be one. And I would really like to see how people feel about it, if they will enjoy it.”

CD Projekt recently outlined a six-year plan that includes releasing Cyberpunk 2077 sometime after 2017, and another mysterious triple-A role-playing game between 2017 and 2021. I thought that second game had to be a Witcher 4 of sorts, but Iwinski saying there are no plans casts doubt on this.

“We are a publicly traded company so we cannot comment on that but I can assure you we are not working on another Witcher,” he replied.