The Witcher 4 shows off a swanky UE5 tech demo at State of Unreal 2025, with Ciri hunting monsters and visiting circuses in Kovir

Complete with scumbag-chucking innkeepers

The State of Unreal 2025 showcase has conscionable offered america a archetypal glimpse astatine what playing The Witcher 4 mightiness look like, via an Unreal Engine 5 demo physique that featured Ciri exploring the wilds and a colony successful Kovir. Kovir was besides confirmed to beryllium a determination you'll sojourn successful the last game, truthful commencement packing your bags.

In this tech demo, which you tin ticker below, CD Projekt and Epic showed disconnected immoderate of the Unreal Engine 5 tech that'll beryllium aiming to marque The Witcher 4 consciousness adjacent much immersive than its already awesome predecessor erstwhile it drops.

The demo kicked disconnected with a merchant successful a cart having his time wholly ruined by a monster, with Ciri past swooping successful to rather virtually prime up the pieces, arsenic she embarks connected a declaration to hunt the monster that conscionable killed the mediocre peddler. Things past decently transitioned into a Ciri-following physique moving connected a PlayStation 5 astatine 60 frames per 2nd with each the raytracing bells and whistles astatine play.

We got a look astatine Ciri's equine Kelpie, whom you'll beryllium riding astir and if they're thing similar Roach, crashing into thing each 5 minutes. The devs adjacent peeled backmost Kelpie's tegument to amusement the motor simulating equine muscles arsenic they run, which wasn't astatine each freaky.

Ciri past wandered from the countryside of Kovir - a mountainous portion that forms portion of the Kingdom of Kovir and Poviss located successful the northwest of The Continent - into 1 of the area's villages, Valdrest. CD Projekt and Epic truly played up each the immersive details that marque up the likes of bustling marketplaces, with details similar an innkeeper dynamically lobbing a Gwent cheat retired of an inn's beforehand doorway being highlighted.

It seems that whitethorn good beryllium what happens to you excessively if you effort to con immoderate cardplayers, truthful you've been warned. After showing disconnected immoderate varying assemblage density astatine a circus, the demo concluded by showing Ciri looking retired astatine the metropolis of Lan Exeter successful the distance. According to the lore, that's Kovir's wintertime superior and a Venice-style large larboard metropolis filled with canals, truthful getting to research it for the archetypal clip successful a Witcher crippled volition nary uncertainty beryllium premier screenshot material.

The Witcher 3 had the precise Elven and French-feeling Beauclair and Novigrad could beryllium conscionable arsenic breathtaking successful a much grungy fashion, truthful it'll beryllium absorbing to spot however Lan Exeter stacks up. I'm truly keen to research Kovir full-stop, since it's 1 of the fringe regions we've not heard excessively overmuch astir arsenic The Witcher games person mostly concentrated much centrally, speech from trips to Kaer Morhen. Regardless, it looks similar we'll beryllium waiting until astir 2027 to acceptable ft there.