The Witcher 4 will be "better, bigger, greater" than The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077: "We don't want to go back"

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"The next game we do will not be smaller, and it will not be worse"

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Fans have been yearning for The Witcher 4 since The Witcher 3 — the seductive action RPG — released in 2015, but with no luck. Developer CD Projekt Red has been silent about The Witcher 4's story and official release date, though the developer did, however, recently assure fans that The Witcher 4 will be its most impressive game launch yet.

"The next game we do will not be smaller, and it will not be worse," CD Projekt vice president of technology Charles Tremblay told Eurogamer. "It will be better, bigger, greater than The Witcher 3, it will be better than Cyberpunk because for us, it's unacceptable [to launch so abysmally]."

"We don't want to go back," Tremblay continued. 

Still, Tremblay's comments will undoubtedly invigorate some The Witcher fans; The Witcher 3 is an approximately 50-hour game, and it offers a fantasy open-world that often looks like a heavenly painting. Anything bigger and better than that seems like no less of a miracle than creating the universe. 

How successful CD Projekt is at raising the bar, of course, remains to be seen. In any case, the developer's impressive overhaul of Cyberpunk 2077 in 2023 certainly suggests that CD Projekt has learned something in the years since The Witcher 3 released. 

"Even if there will be some 'sweaty moments' and maybe even some bad stuff happening," Tremblay said about The Witcher 4, "I think that we will try everything we can to make it even more than what we achieved in the past years."

The Witcher 4 dev says it takes 5-6 years to make a game after the idea's conception - but isn't saying when The Witcher 4 was thought up.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.