The Witcher Remake will be an open-world RPG

The remake of 2007’s The WitcherPlayers will have a bit more flexibility than before. Remake of The WitcherCD Projekt Red is developing a new game called. It will feature open-world gameplay, as opposed to the linear 2007 version. There’s no word yet on when the remake might be released, which means it’s still probably pretty far off.

The new reveal about the game’s structure came from a slide in the CD Project Group’s Q3 investor presentation. The slide includes a splashy fire-filled graphic with a logo for the remake in The Witcher’s recognizable font and describes the game as a “Story-driven, single player open-world RPG.” While this doesn’t clue us into much about what the remake’s open world might look like, it does sound like a pretty big change from the original game, which gave players a few larger environments to explore as a they killed monsters and earned upgrades for Gerald, but was overall fairly linear.

While none of this is terribly surprising, given that it’s exactly the structure that helped the series breakout with 2015’s massive hit Wild Hunt: The Witcher 3It is slightly different to the original game’s structure. This is a sign that CD Projekt may be expanding the story and giving the players a larger world.