{"id":626840,"date":"2026-09-25T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626840\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:06:10","slug":"the-witcher-4-will-double-down-on-morally-grey-gameplay-to-make-a-lasting-impression-on-the-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626840\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 4 Will Double Down on Morally Grey Gameplay To &#8220;Make a Lasting Impression on the Player&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Witcher IV has long been in development at CD Projekt Red, with the studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/351909\/the-witcher-4-gets-2028-release-window-but-no-gamescom-gameplay-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expecting to launch the game in 2028<\/a>, however it seems as though much of the game&#8217;s scope and general philosophy has already been figured out and set in stone. In a recent panel appearance at the International Festival of Comics in Poland, CDPR joint CEO, Adam Badowski commented on the game&#8217;s story and morality system, suggesting there would be a focus on both when the upcoming game launches.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by entertainment site, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1108694818369319&amp;set=a.169994648906012\" target=\"_blank\">Wied\u017aminlandia<\/a>, Badowski explains that the long development times on The Witcher 4 are largely due to the repeated rewrites that are made in order to develop a narrative that resonates with players and doesn&#8217;t feel hollow. One way in which The Witcher IV will do this is with its nuanced, often ambiguous choices-matter gameplay, which Badowski says will &#8220;make a lasting impression on the player.&#8221; Judging by what the CEO said, we can seemingly expect subtle choices to affect character interactions and potentially even change story beats when the game launches in 2028.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/Ml6VvVXFmA6b7xyA.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1707\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g353063\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ml6VvVXFmA6b7xyA_thm.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Witcher IV has long been in development at CD Projekt Red, with the studio expecting to launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-626840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}