The Witcher 4 Trailers: Reveal Trailer, Tech Demo and Every Video

The trailer tells a short, self-contained Witcher story. It opens with a father saying goodbye to his daughter: the people of a remote village are preparing a girl for a traditional ritual sacrifice. For generations they have appeased a monster this way. According to CD PROJEKT RED, the village is called Stromford and lies in the north; the girl is Mioni, and the monster is a Bauk.

Ciri, cat-eyed and a trained witcher, has taken the contract to kill the monster. She also wants to save the girl, and in doing so clashes with the superstitions and prejudices of the villagers. In the fight she shows new tools: a chain she enchants with a fire spell – a nod to the very first Witcher trailer, according to Kalemba – a potion that is really a poison only witchers can brew, and magic she draws from the elements as a Source.

The ending delivers the painful lesson CDPR names as the heart of the trailer: monsters come in all forms. The closing lines are: “To go to the gods…” – “Gods? There are no gods here… There are only monsters.” That line also gives the song its title. At the very end you briefly hear Geralt, voiced by Doug Cockle according to CDPR.

In the breakdown, Kalemba stresses that the trailer shows a real quest from the game and that there are choices and consequences: Mioni can be saved. More on the plot under story, and on the characters under characters.

The reveal trailer is not gameplay. Right at the start it states that it was pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU. According to the press release, it uses the same tech The Witcher 4 is built on, with assets and models from the game itself. It is meant to give a cinematic look at the kind of experience the game aspires to – not at how it plays.

The tech demo is explicitly not gameplay either, but for a different reason: it ran in real time on a PS5, yet showed technology rather than the finished game. CD PROJEKT RED said it “isn’t gameplay of The Witcher 4 itself” but a look at the technological groundwork. There was no combat in it.

Watching it: the main upload of the trailer on The Witcher channel (youtube.com/watch?v=54dabgZJ5YA) is age-restricted on YouTube and will not play embedded. That is why we show the identical upload from CD PROJEKT RED DACH above. The English breakdown (youtube.com/watch?v=3FIFslGpiZA) is age-restricted too; the DACH upload above is the same video.

The tech demo opened the State of Unreal keynote in Orlando on June 3, 2025, live on stage. Ciri rides Kelpie through the rugged mountains and dense forests of Kovir to the bustling port town of Valdrest. According to CDPR, Kovir makes its very first appearance in the series in The Witcher 4. Along the way Ciri is caught up in a dangerous monster contract, and a manticore appears in the demo.

The focus was technology that CDPR and Epic are developing together:

• Nanite Foliage: dense forests with individual branches swaying in the wind.
• Unreal Animation Framework and Mass: hundreds of people at the Valdrest market, each moving in their own way.
• Fast Geometry Streaming: the world loads quickly as you ride.
• ML Deformer: Kelpie’s muscles move realistically.
• MetaHuman and Chaos Cloth: faces and clothing.

Kalemba describes one scene in more detail on the PlayStation Blog: at the market, Ciri bumps into a man carrying a crate of apples. He loses his footing, the apples roll down the hill and trigger unscripted chain reactions – children run to grab one, pigs look for an early lunch. More on the technology under tech, and on the places under locations.

If you want to go deeper: Epic has published several technical talks from the 2025 Unreal Fests on the Unreal Engine channel, which explain the demo’s technology in detail:

• Streaming Improvements for Dense Worlds (Orlando, 44:45)
• Unreal Animation Framework (Orlando, 40:15)
• The Road to 60 fps (Orlando, 46:10)
• Large Scale Animated Foliage (Stockholm, 37:27)
• Runtime PCG (Stockholm, 39:34)
• The Art of Anamorphic Lenses in the reveal trailer (Stockholm, 26:16)

There is also Digital Foundry’s interview with CDPR and Epic (Inside The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo, 48:15), the full State of Unreal 2025 stream, and episode 15 of the official AnsweRED podcast about working with Platige Image on the trailer. Platige Image itself shows how the duel was made in a short motion capture breakdown.

There was no new The Witcher 4 trailer in 2026; the only new video is the gamescom message. Whether the game will appear at The Game Awards on December 10, 2026, has not been announced – we track the latest under release date.