After years and years of patience, fans of the Witcher series finally got a nice long look at the newest entry in the series in a cinematic trailer. CD Projekt Red revealed the game during the The Game Awards’ 10th anniversary.
The Witcher 4 trailer is almost 6 minutes long and shows us an adult Ciri who is taking on a witcher contract in a remote area that “has been terrorized for generations by a fearsome monster demanding human sacrifices,” the company said in a press release.
Framed as a short, self-contained Witcher story, the trailer showcases Ciri’s new abilities and tools, including a chain and advanced magic powers.
At the heart of the trailer is Ciri’s perspective as an outsider to the village. As the villagers say goodbye to one of their own — a young girl they are preparing for a traditional ritual sacrifice — Ciri chooses to intervene. Aiming to slay the beast and save the girl at the same time, Ciri finds herself at odds with the prejudices and superstitions of the people she tries to protect, leading her to confront a painful witcher lesson: that monsters come in all forms.
“We’re kicking off a brand-new Witcher saga, this time with Ciri as the heart of the story!” Sebastian Kalemba, Game Director, said. “It feels so good to finally be able to say those words — for the longest time we knew that we wanted Ciri to be the protagonist of The Witcher IV; it just felt natural to us and we believe that Ciri deserves it. In this game we want to explore what it means to truly become a witcher by following Ciri on her Path. This trailer is a taste of both that, and just how dark and grounded the world of The Witcher can be.”
The game is being built in Unreal Engine 5 and on an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU, which the company says was the same technology the trailer was built in. The trailer was built using assets and models from the game, and “aims to provide players with a cinematic look at the kind of experience the game is aspiring to provide.”
CD PROJEKT RED also released some screenshots from the game:
