Ciri will be the main character of the new Witcher series.
It's a good time to be alive for fans of the Witcher games. CD Projekt has finally unveiled its newest project in the series, The Witcher 4 through a six-minute trailer at The Game Awards on Friday (13 December):
“We're thrilled to reveal the first look at The Witcher IV — our upcoming single-player open-world RPG. It marks the beginning of a new saga with Ciri as a protagonist, embarking on her own journey to become a professional monster slayer,” their official announcement on social media said.
In the trailer, we were treated with an epic fight between Ciri and what looked like an arachnomorph, later on revealed by the Witcher lead animator Sebastian Kalemba to IGN as “The Bauk”, in her attempt to save a village girl from being sacrificed to an unknown monster the villagers called “the gods." People still scoff at witchers, with some looking at Ciri with the same disgust they used to show Geralt.
The cinematic ends with Ciri saying, “There are no gods here, only monsters.”
This gives us a glimpse of Ciri, now fully grown in her latest tussle with a monster as a witcher.
Other Witcher games in the works
There are other Witcher games in the pipeline too. One is codenamed Canis Majoris, a Witcher game that is separate from the trilogy, to be developed by an an external studio.
Another is codenamed “Sirius,” which according to a tweet from the devs 2 years ago, “will differ from our past productions, offering multiplayer gameplay on top of a single-player experience including a campaign with quests and a story.”
Project Sirius is being developed by The Molasses Flood, a Boston-based studio acquired by CDPR in October 2021, and it could feature a gameplay style that sets it apart from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
