- The Witcher 4 devs speak about Gwent in a current interview
- CDPR strongly hints that the cardboard recreation will make a return
- The sport is predicted to launch in 2026 on the very earliest
It isn’t even been per week since The Witcher 4‘s debut trailer and we’re already asking probably the most urgent of questions: will it have Gwent?
Effectively, there’s probably nice (or horrible, relying on how a lot you worth your free time) information on that entrance. In an interview with Simple Allies (through PC Gamer), The Witcher 4’s government producer Gosia Mitręga and recreation director Sebastian Kalemba had been requested concerning the return of the fiendishly addictive card recreation.
“We actually love the sport,” replies Mitręga, “and we additionally actually fastidiously, at all times take heed to the neighborhood – which we love, and it is an incredible one.” Mitręga provides: “However I do not assume anybody might be disillusioned.”
Kalemba additionally speaks on the subject, stating that the cardboard recreation is “part of the expertise, completely. We additionally love Gwent.”
Whereas not a rock-solid affirmation that Gwent is unquestionably coming again in The Witcher 4, it does appear extra more likely to make a comeback than not primarily based on the builders’ responses.
I by no means fairly obtained round to ending The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, however at any time when I performed I at all times obtained sucked into enjoying hours of Gwent. Blissfully easy to know but offering loads of room for depth and mastery, it was simply the perfect a part of the earlier recreation for me. I feel the one different in-universe card recreation I’ve had near this a lot enjoyable with since might be Vantage Grasp from Trails of Chilly Metal 3, even when that is not fairly as elegantly put collectively as Gwent is.
In any other case, we nonetheless do not know a lot else about The Witcher 4 at current, which is comprehensible for a recreation that is nonetheless early on in improvement. We do know that Ciri has been recast for this recreation, with actress Ciara Berkeley voicing the protagonist rather than Jo Wyatt.