CD Projekt Red will appear at Unreal Fest in June later this year with a new Witcher 4 showcase, giving us a further glimpse into this hotly-anticipated sequel.
The Witcher 4 was first announced two years ago at The Game Awards with a CGI trailer featuring an older Ciri as the new series protagonist. Since then, we’ve seen very little of the game, and what we have been shown thus far has been lifted from curated tech demos that are not representative of the final build.
As DSO Gaming reports, that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. CD Projekt Red announced its appearance at Unreal Fest on the latest episode of its podcast, and the team didn’t divulge whether the footage shown would be in-game or sourced from a tech demo, but given the event’s nature, the latter seems more likely.
What To Expect From Unreal Fest
Unreal Fest is about “bringing together creators and developers from across different industries to share ideas, supercharge projects, and grow their networks,” so it’s unlikely that CDPR will use this as a platform to showcase gameplay.
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The Witcher 4’s tech demo represents CDPR’s current approach, but the final game could look very different.
Another tech demo highlighting UE5’s capabilities seems more apt, as the team has been working closely with Epic to improve the performance of larger scale, open-world games running on the engine. However, this is only speculation, and CDPR could very well appear with a gameplay trailer, giving us our first true look at The Witcher 4 in action — we’ll find out in a short few months.
There’s no firm release date for The Witcher 4 yet, but CDPR stated in 2025 that it plans to launch the game by 2027 at the earliest, so we could see marketing heat up this year. Hopefully, the wait for future games will be a little less intense, as CDPR aims to release an entire Witcher trilogy within six years of The Witcher 4.
