The Witcher 4 Takes Cues
When a game as monumental as Baldur’s Gate 3 wins Game of the Year and captures the hearts of millions, its influence ripples across the entire industry. For the developers working on the next Witcher game, the impact of Larian Studios’ RPG has been both inspiring and instructive.
In a recent interview, CD Projekt Red’s joint CEO, Michał Nowakowski, openly praised Baldur’s Gate 3, revealing that the team is drawing inspiration from it for The Witcher 4. For fans, this immediately raises a question: what does that mean for the future of the series?
The answer is reassuring. According to Nowakowski, the inspiration isn’t about copying Baldur’s Gate 3‘s formula or abandoning the core identity of The Witcher. The team is not ditching its vast, explorable open worlds in favor of a more zone-based approach.
Instead, the learning seems to be focused on the finer details of world-building and player agency. CD Projekt Red is looking at the way Baldur’s Gate 3 crafted its deeply interactive environments and rich, branching narratives. The goal is to capture that same feeling of a living, reactive world where player choices have tangible and meaningful consequences.
“We do want to innovate,” Nowakowski stated, making it clear that the studio isn’t content to simply release “another game like [The Witcher 3], just with better graphics.” The vision for The Witcher 4 is to evolve the franchise by blending the sprawling, immersive open-world exploration it’s known for with a new layer of narrative depth and environmental interaction inspired by Baldur’s Gate 3‘s strengths.
This suggests a best-of-both-worlds scenario. Players can likely still expect to traverse a massive, beautiful landscape as Ciri or another witcher. But within that world, the stories you uncover and the characters you meet may feel more dynamic and responsive than ever before.
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This approach demonstrates a mature and thoughtful way of learning from a peer. Rather than mimic, CD Projekt Red is aiming to integrate the most celebrated aspects of a modern classic into its own proven framework, potentially creating a truly genre-defining experience when The Witcher 4 eventually arrives.