Weeks ago, CD Projekt Red presented to its investor the future of the company as major projects were green lighted, including more The Witcher games project with one in particular being a mysterious one that I reported as a new multiplayer RPG experience as another original spinoff.
Well CD Projekt Red might mean that but today, it was rectified and officially announced that Project Canis Majoris is actually The Witcher remake.
The Witcher is based on the novel series by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski with the same name, launched in 2007 and the first original game after what we known as CD Projekt Red now reorganized from its former self in 2002, stopping being just a translating major video-game releases into Polish and serving as a middle-man for European game distribution since 1994.
The story takes place in a medieval fantasy world and follows Geralt of Rivia, one of a few traveling monster hunters who have supernatural powers, known as Witchers, time after the end of the novel series (as part of the agreement with Andrzej Sapkowski to avoid people forgoing on buying the books while The Witcher III serves as a connector the books itself).
While being their first game and the first time they used their in-house built RED Engine, The Witcher remake will be done from scratch with Unreal Engine 5, the second The Witcher game as The Witcher‘s next main game was already announced to be developed with UE5 (Project Polaris).
But this time, CD Projekt Red will have the a team from Fool’s Theory, the same studio that helped the development for games like Baldur Gate 3 and Outriders, probably to pinpoint CDPR with Unreal Engine 5.
CD Projekt Red warned that the development is still in early days and wants to do everything right, so we might have to sit comfortably to wait.
Via CDPR