CD Projekt has revealed that The Witcher Remake from Idiot’s Principle is at the moment on the again burner because the studio works on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Songs of the Previous growth and awaits a few of The Witcher 4’s technological improvements.
Joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski talked about roadblocks for the challenge in an interview with The Sport Enterprise. “We began a collaboration with Idiot’s Principle. They have been alleged to work on The Witcher 1 [remake], however we realized that wanted a bit extra time due to sure know-how dependencies with The Witcher 4,” Nowakowski revealed.
GameSpot has reached out to CD Projekt for touch upon the state of The Witcher’s remake and whether or not points with these “know-how dependencies” required for additional improvement have been resolved. We’ll replace if we get a response.
CD Projekt at massive is transitioning from utilizing its proprietary RED Engine for all its video games to Unreal Engine. The Witcher 4 will set the usual for what a Witcher recreation in Unreal Engine seems to be like, and it seems that The Witcher 1’s remake (introduced in 2022) bought caught up in that know-how shift. Now Idiot’s Principle is the first developer of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s upcoming Songs of the Previous growth, which was unveiled at Gamescom.
Earlier statements Nowakowski made in conversations with traders assist his newest remark. In its Q3 2024 earnings report Q&A, Nowakowski mentioned that “work is progressing” on the remake, however within the Q&A reflecting on the whole 2024 fiscal 12 months, Nowakowski’s tone on the challenge modified. He defined that the remake’s improvement had been built-in with The Witcher 4’s.
“As a consequence of manufacturing course of dependencies – amongst others associated to belongings and know-how – we’ve got determined to briefly combine its improvement with ongoing work on The Witcher 4,” he mentioned. “Because of this, a small portion of The Idiot’s Principle workforce is at the moment supporting The Witcher 4 workforce. Our purpose is to have the required belongings, instruments, and pipelines prepared for extra environment friendly improvement of The Witcher Remake.”
In a Q3 2025 earnings name Q&A, Nowakowski reiterated this by stating, “the vast majority of the workforce is at the moment concerned within the different challenge [Songs of the Past], and likewise assist for The Witcher 4, so there may be some restricted workforce engaged on TW1, however because it’s very a lot tied with TW4 improvement…for TW1 per se, it’s a smaller group of individuals.”
The Witcher 1’s remake doesn’t have a launch window at the moment, however from Nowakowski’s feedback, it appears possible it received’t arrive till after The Witcher 3 Remastered later this month, Songs of the Previous in 2027, and The Witcher 4 in 2028.