The next Witcher likely won't be exclusive to any storefront, even amid Epic partnership

While CD Projekt Red is developing the next Witcher on Unreal Engine 5, there are no plans to make it an Epic Games Store exclusive.

On Monday, CD Projekt Red announced a partnership with Epic on the development of the next mainline Witcher RPG. Specifically, the game will utilize Epic’s Unreal Engine 5 rather than REDengine, which CD Projekt Red used for Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Cyberpunk 2077. Despite the swap in technology, CD Projekt Red isn’t planning on making the next Witcher an Epic Games Store exclusive.

“We are not planning on making the game exclusive to one storefront,” the official Witcher Twitter account said in response to fans.

Since CD Projekt Red owns the popular PC storefront GOG, an exclusive deal on the Epic Games Store likely wasn’t ever in the cards. All prior releases from the company make it on Steam sooner or later, so fans of Valve’s storefront shouldn’t worry about it. For now, anyway.

Over the past few years, several titles have begun as Epic Games Store exclusives on PC. The Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a recent example. Many of these are only timed exclusives and eventually end up on Steam.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.