When is The Witcher IV coming out?
The Witcher IV's release date has not been officially confirmed yet.

The Witcher IV starts a new saga centered on Ciri, now a professional monster slayer in a brutal dark-fantasy world. CD PROJEKT RED presents it as a single-player open-world RPG powered by Unreal Engine 5.
Why Lumnix is tracking it
The real story is not just The Witcher coming back: it is the handover. Ciri changes the series’ relationship with witcher work, magic, moral choice and the violence of the Continent. Lumnix will track three points: how CD PROJEKT RED evolves The Witcher 3 without merely repeating it, what the Unreal Engine 5 promise means after Cyberpunk 2077, and whether the studio can make Ciri a fully realized protagonist rather than a reboot emblem.
Confirmed facts
The Witcher IV's release date has not been officially confirmed yet.
The Witcher IV's platforms are still to be confirmed.
The Witcher IV is developed by CD PROJEKT RED.
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Gamescom 2026's Opening Night Live shapes up as a packed affair: additional content for The Witcher, a confirmed appearance by Metro 2039, and fresh footage of Silent Hill Townfall headline the slate. This is no ordinary lineup—three franchises with heavyweight nostalgia and demanding fanbases, all on the same stage. The pressure on publishers is real, and managing expectations without disappointing audiences will be a high-wire act.

The botched launch of Cyberpunk 2077 in 2020 left lasting scars on CD Projekt — commercially, but above all in terms of trust. The Polish studio now acknowledges it without equivocation: The Witcher 4 must repair this fracture with its audience. Unprecedented pressure for a franchise that never had to justify itself. The question isn't whether the game will be good, but whether CD Projekt can afford another misstep.