{"id":834,"date":"2026-09-02T00:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=834"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:04:37","slug":"the-witcher-remake-is-waiting-on-the-witcher-4-to-continue-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher Remake Is Waiting On The Witcher 4 To Continue Development"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CD Projekt has revealed that The Witcher Remake<\/a> from Fool\u2019s Theory is currently on the back burner as the studio works on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt\u2019s Songs of the Past expansion<\/a> and awaits some of The Witcher 4’s technological innovations.<\/p>\n

Joint-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski mentioned roadblocks for the project in an interview with The Game Business<\/a>. \u201cWe started a collaboration with Fool\u2019s Theory. They were supposed to work on The Witcher 1 [remake], but we realized that needed a bit more time because of certain technology dependencies with The Witcher 4,\u201d Nowakowski revealed.<\/p>\n

GameSpot has reached out to CD Projekt<\/a> for comment on the state of The Witcher\u2019s remake and whether issues with those \u201ctechnology dependencies\u201d required for further development have been resolved. We will update if we get a response.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CD Projekt at large is transitioning from using its proprietary RED Engine for all its games to Unreal Engine<\/a>. The Witcher 4 will set the standard for what a Witcher game in Unreal Engine looks like, and it appears that The Witcher 1\u2019s remake (announced in 2022<\/a>) got caught up in that technology shift. Now Fool\u2019s Theory is the primary developer of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt\u2019s upcoming Songs of the Past expansion, which was unveiled at Gamescom.<\/p>\n

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This is the only image related to The Witcher’s remake that CD Projekt ever publicly shared.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Previous statements\u00a0Nowakowski made in conversations with investors support his latest comment. In its Q3 2024 earnings report<\/a> Q&A, Nowakowski said that \u201cwork is progressing\u201d on the remake, but in the Q&A reflecting on the entire 2024 fiscal year<\/a>, Nowakowski\u2019s tone on the project changed. He explained that the remake\u2019s development had been integrated with The Witcher 4\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cDue to production process dependencies – among others related to assets and technology – we have decided to temporarily integrate its development with ongoing work on The Witcher 4,\u201d he said. \u201cAs a result, a small portion of The Fool’s Theory team is currently supporting The Witcher 4 team. Our goal is to have the necessary assets, tools, and pipelines ready for more efficient development of The Witcher Remake.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Q3 2025 earnings call <\/a>Q&A, Nowakowski reiterated this by stating, \u201cthe majority of the team is currently involved in the other project [Songs of the Past], and also support for The Witcher 4, so there is some limited team working on TW1, but since it\u2019s very much tied with TW4 development\u2026for TW1 per se, it\u2019s a smaller group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Witcher 1\u2019s remake does not have a release window at this time, but from Nowakowski’s comments, it seems likely it won\u2019t arrive until after The Witcher 3 Remastered<\/a> later this month, Songs of the Past<\/a> in 2027, and The Witcher 4<\/a> in 2028. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CD Projekt has revealed that The Witcher Remake from Fool\u2019s Theory is currently on the back burner as the studio works on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt\u2019s Songs of the Past expansion and awaits some of The Witcher 4’s technological innovations. Joint-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski mentioned roadblocks for the project in an interview with The Game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}