CD Projekt and Fool’s Theory’s remake of the The Witcher 1 has been delayed to the year 2028, according to a new report.
According to Noble Securities (via WitcherIVnews on Twitter/X), a long established Polish brokerage and investment bank that covers CD Projekt stock, The Witcher 1 Remake has been delayed to the year 2028. Fool’s Theory, the studio working on the title has been reassigned to assist on the development of The Witcher 4. This decision has significantly slowed progress of the remake of the first entry in The Witcher series.
The Witcher 1 Remake is being developed using Unreal Engine 5, the same engine that will power the next trilogy. Back in January, 2024, during an interview with Edge Magazine, Rebel Wolves CEO Jakub Rokosz, who worked on The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3, mentioned that he he didn’t get the opportunity to work on the first game in Geralt’s trilogy, and that the remake has now given him the chance to “give it the justice it deserves.”
Rokosz stated that the first order of business is to conduct an honest, down-to-earth analysis of which parts of the original The Witcher are “simply bad, outdated, and need to be remade”, while also highlighting the parts that are great, should be retained in the remake, or are “direct key pillars that can’t be discarded.” The Rebel Wolves CEO added that the development team will be looking to rearrange the good parts from the original in order to create something that is “both satisfying and still resonates with the feel of the original.”
The Witcher is originally a 2007 action role-playing game developed by CD Projekt Red for Windows PC and OS X, based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy novel series of the same name. The game led to two sequels, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings in 2011 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015.
