Thanks to new technologies at its disposal, The Witcher 4 will be much more enormous than all other games in the saga, according to a CD Projekt Red developer.
It has been ten years since the masterpiece of CD Projekt Red that The Witcher 3 came out. However, he had to make concessions due to the technical limitations of the time, and in particular the Red Engine engine recalcitrant. This will not be a priori the case with The Witcher 4which will be more able to give shape to its enormous ambitions, partly thanks to the Unreal Engine 5. This should be felt in the cities that Ciri will visit in the Kovir region, as explained by Jan Hermanowicz, Manager Manager Manager at CD Projekt Red, in an interview with Gamesradar.
The Witcher 4 will seriously go up in (Novi) Grad
The recent technical demo From The Witcher 4 during the State of Unreal 2025 was perhaps too good to be true, but presented us Valdrest, a port city of Kovir welcoming more than 300 NPCs. About the same number of inhabitants as in Novigrad, the largest city in The Witcher 3. 10 years earlier, CD Projekt Red had indeed had to properly of the largest city in the north in the world of books, Due to many technical limitations. For the next adventures of Ciri, the Polish studio wants to see things bigger, and can do it in particular thanks to the Unreal Engine 5.
« This generational transition, we do not want to miss it. Our ambition is to take full advantage of it to deliver a really new generation experience Said Jan Hermanowicz in an interview with Gamesradar. The Kovir region that we are going to visit in The Witcher 4 should contain many towns and villages of a scale never seen in the saga. “” We have studied what we have done in the past, including Novigrad in The Witcher 3, we retained the coolest elements, and what we could not do at the time, to see what we can improve ».
At the end of the technical demo of The Witcher 4, we can also see LAN Exeter, a major city of Kovir. Nothing but this overview already left us a major city. This time, CD Projekt Red should therefore be able to represent as it should be this emblematic place of the universe ofAndrzej Sapkowski. In any case, this is the ambition of the Polish studio, and we hope that he will be able to give it one, when The Witcher 4 will come out 2027/2028.
Source : Gamesradar
