YOU BETTER BE-LEAF IT

THE WITCHER 4 is shiny, gorgeous, and... green?

- Nick Evanson

As the opener to an annual tech event, it's pretty hard to beat showing off how The Witcher 4 will look and run in actual gameplay, but that's exactly what Epic and CD Projekt Red did for the former's keynote speech at The State of Unreal 2025.

We all knew it was coming, of course, but sitting in a crowd of developers, creators, and journalists in Orlando, eardrums being blasted by surround-sound Ciri, it was clear that everyone wanted to be absolutely wowed by what The Witcher 4's developers had in store for us. There was one standout technological improvement Epic will eventually be bringing out with Unreal Engine 5.7, and one thing that looks to be making