CD Projekt Red has launched one other entry in its sequence of The Witcher video games. The studio is Gwent: Rogue Mage as a single-player enlargement for , however it’s bought individually. It’s out right now on PC, iOS and Android for $10. A $20 premium version comes with perks for Gwent.

Rogue Mage was underneath the working title of Project Golden Nekker. It takes place a whole lot of years earlier than the start of Witcher protagonist Geralt of Rivia. You’ll play because the mage Alzur, who’s making an attempt to create the very first witcher to guard humanity from an onslaught of monsters.

Don’t go into it anticipating a ton of particulars that can play into the , although. “While we have a story to tell about Alzur’s obsession to create the first witcher, we do not treat this expansion as an official addition to The Witcher lore,” sport director Vladimir Tortsov instructed . “We hope that players will get enough immersion to complement the gameplay-first formula, but we do not expect the story to be the main reason for players to appreciate this release.”

The sport is a roguelike deckbuilder. You’ll transfer round a procedurally generated map and participate in card battles based mostly on mechanics from the unique Gwent. You’ll be capable of improve your military by gathering extra playing cards and equipment. There are dozens of problem modifiers too.

Tortsov says it’ll probably take gamers north of 30 hours to do and discover every little thing in Rogue Mage, which is designed for gameplay classes that take as much as an hour. The sport will be performed solely offline, although there are on-line options like leaderboards and cross-saves, so you may proceed taking part in the place you left off on different units.

CDPR debuted the unique Gwent . It’s a free-to-play multiplayer title based mostly on a minigame in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Rogue Mage is not the primary single-player tackle Gwent, although. CDPR beforehand launched a single-player marketing campaign known as .