The Witcher 4, Starring Ciri, Announced at the Game Awards

Fans of the Witcher series got a treat Thursday at The Game Awards 2024 in Los Angeles — a 6-minute trailer revealing The Witcher 4, prominently featuring a grown-up Ciri, adopted daughter of Geralt of Rivia.

Geralt was nowhere to be found in the trailer, which doesn’t mean he’s not in the game. But Ciri will take center stage in the game as a protagonist, CD Projekt Red noted in a press release. While there wasn’t any gameplay in the trailer, it focused on the nuts and bolts of Witcher games: using steel and silver swords with some magic (along with a new chain weapon) to take down gruesome monsters.

While Studio CD Projekt Red described the trailer as a short story, suggesting it may not represent the game’s plot, it featured themes that will likely be reflective of the game: a young village girl is being prepared for a ritual sacrifice to a local monster, which Ciri steps in to kill. But upon returning to the villagers, she finds the girl dead amid calls for gods — to which the white-tressed Witcher angrily says, “There are no gods here — just monsters.” Chills!

While not showing gameplay, the studio noted that the trailer was made using assets and models from the game itself. CD Project Red also teased that it was built in Unreal Engine 5 on “an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU.” 

CD Projekt Red didn’t announce any release date or indication of when the game would be coming out, nor what platforms it will be released on.