CD Projekt’s mobile Witcher AR-game will be available later in the month. It will be the summer fad of this year.
The screenshots of The Witcher: Monster Slayer crack me up. It’s an AR mobile game similar to Pokemon Go. You search for creatures using your phone’s camera. But it’s based upon The Witcher so you might encounter a big-eyed Bulbasaur on your roof or a mutilated horse at the park. It’s very nice!
Today’s news is that The Witcher : Monster Slayer will be released for iOS and Android on July 21st. Spokko, the Polish developer who created The Witcher RPG Trilogy’s Monster Slayer, made it. The developer states that you won’t meet CD Projekt’s Geralt in a Starbucks. Monster Slayer was created “long before the time when Geralt of Rivia” though. (Way back before Starbucks existed, I suppose.
However, there human characters that can speak to you. Spokko claims that Monster Slayer’s quests won’t be simple, but will focus on deep, story-driven adventures that are inspired by the Witcher series. I won’t judge until I see more than a man who has drunk too much at a Ren Fair and is crying “save my Witcher” from a municipal park trail.
The gameplay trailer for last year, embedded below, shows glimpses of how we will track and fight monsters with witcher senses. It also shows how we will investigate horse decapitations and stock up on potions. Monster Slayer is not intended to be a visual toy. While the novelty of running into a waterhag at the park is appealing, there is also a game to play. We’ll find out if it works later in the month.
It’s an interesting time for The Witcher 3 and CD Projekt. The Witcher 3 is widely regarded as one the most popular PC RPGs, and its world has grown in popularity over the six years that have passed since its release. The Netflix Witcher series, starring Henry Cavill, was a huge success and attracted a lot of interest in the Andrzej sapkowski books on which the show and games are based. We don’t know of any major new Witcher RPG. CD Projekt also maintains the spin-off card game Gwent. However, it appears that is primarily focused on saving Cyberpunk 2077 ‘s legacy, which was an okay game but not the success that The Witcher 3 was for so many.
CD Projekt and Netflix will collaborate to present WitcherCon on Friday, July 9. This livestream will provide more information about the second season and other Witcher-related media. However, the Polish game developer has said it won’t announce a new Witcher title there. It’s not announcing if it is working on one. However, is still possible.
The Witcher : Monster Slayer will be available for free on July 21. Although we don’t know what will be available in the app, Pokemon Go sells Pokeballs and other essential items that can be earned through playing. There are also boosters that increase XP and attract Pokemon.
You can preregister on Google Play if you are willing to leave your computer and fight endriagas, giant scorpions, while exploring the Dank Wilderness (an area that isn’t populated by humans). This will allow you to get a notification when the game becomes available. It will also be available on iOS. Someone will get it to run on a PC with fake GPS coordinates. This will make everyone mad who is legitimately parking in garages searching for strigas. Later this month, we’ll give it a try in our municipal park.
