CD Projekt Red has confirmed that new The Witcher games will not be exclusive to the Epic Games Storedespite the company’s partnership with Epic Games and the move to Unreal Engine 5. CDPR has announced that The Witcher 4 is on the way and is being developed on Unreal Engine 5.
The new installments of the series The Witcher will be made with Unreal Engine 5, which is owned by Epic Games. The change of engines marks a change for CDPR, as it has its own engine, called REDengine. CDPR has used different iterations of the REDengine to produce The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Cyberpunk 2077.
The new partnership between CDPR and Epic Games initially led some to believe that the new entries in the series The Witcher they would be exclusive to the Epic Games Store on PC. The exclusivity of Epic Games has caused the reaction of the fans of other franchises in the past, but it seems that this time it will not be necessary. A post by The Witcher’s official Twitter account has confirmed that there are no plans for the new installments to be exclusive to one platform.
CDPR already has its own digital distribution platform, ‘GOG’, so an agreement with Epic Games Store would make even less sense than usual. The association between CDPR and Epic Games has to do with the use of Unreal Engine 5 to create games and is not an indication of exclusivity.
There are many games being developed with Unreal Engine 5, such as Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate, and Mortal Online 2, with no indication that these games will be tied to Epic Games. Store. The upcoming Bioshock 4 could also use Unreal Engine 5, according to rumors surrounding the game’s development.