It’s been speculated for a very long time and now it’s official. The Witcher 4 has formally been introduced at The Sport Awards 2024 with a prolonged cinematic trailer and the reveal of the protagonist: Cirilla.

Ciri is all grown up within the new Witcher saga

We now have our very first look at The Witcher 4 which facilities round Ciri, who has chosen the witcher path. She is considerably older than once we final noticed her in The Witcher 3. We see Ciri in a small village that’s about to sacrifice a younger girl to a monster. The witcheress intervenes, naturally.

Sport director Sebastian Kalemba commented to IGN: “There was an intention behind this selection. It was removed from roulette. It wasn’t random. I bear in mind we had discussions 9 years in the past, we have been speaking about who’s subsequent? The very, very on the spot reply was Ciri. There are lots of causes behind that. We’ve already talked about a couple of. However she actually deserves a stage and we wish gamers to essentially expertise her story as a result of she has a lot to inform, a lot to show. The quantity of challenges which can be in entrance of her give us a lot wonderful vitality and gasoline to create an epic saga that we had no selection however to go along with it. All of us felt that that is the best way. I imagine that is the tremendous proper selection.”

However how does that match into The Witcher 3 endings? Franchise and lore designer Cian Maher of CDPR commented: “The one complication might be the concept there may be an ending during which Ciri can die in The Witcher 3. There are hints in that ending that spotlight the truth that she most likely doesn’t die.”

No launch date has been given, clearly, however just lately CDPR commented that the sport ought to be launched 1-2 years after a full reveal. Assuming the total reveal is as we speak, one or two years from now we’ll be taking part in the brand new Witcher recreation if all goes properly.