Announced throughout an in any other case uninteresting financial results conference streamed on Twitch, CD Projekt Red introduced a minor shock right now. Their long-awaited Gwent single-player marketing campaign has grown right into a separate and self-contained game all of its personal. Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is its new, Gwent-free title, and whereas clearly associated to the free-to-play card game, the corporate are calling it a prolonged RPG in its personal proper. As such, it is going to be offered as a standalone retail game.
During the convention, CD Projekt Red have been eager to emphasize that Thronebreaker is an RPG first and a card game second. They mentioned it can offer over thirty hours of story with the same old Witcher-style ethical choices to be made, with combat and other such moments of ‘action’ resolved through Geralt’s favourite card game. I’m instantly reminded of the previous 1997 Magic: The Gathering game by Microprose, which was a sprawling RPG with dungeons, monsters, bosses and extra that simply occurred to make use of the well-known CCG as its fight engine. I may stand one other of these.
CD Projekt additionally mentioned that whereas Thronebreaker is clearly geared toward present Gwent followers, they hope to enchantment to followers of The Witcher sequence who’re in search of extra tales set in its grim and dirty world of fantastical medieval politics. We received a peek at what Thronebreaker had to offer last year (together with affirmation that the author of the superb Bloody Baron quest-line from The Witcher three is concerned), but it surely sounds prefer it has far outgrown its authentic idea. If nothing else, it’s good that Thronebreaker will nonetheless exist even when Gwent fizzles out sooner or later down the road.
There’s no launch date or worth set for Thronebreaker but, though you possibly can see some early screenshots on its GOG store page here, nonetheless utilizing the previous title.
Credit to the eagle-eyed folks at the Gwent Reddit for recognizing this and gathering clips from the convention.
