The Witcher 4 first trailer shows main character and its not Geralt [Video]

Geralt of Rivia is not the main playable character in The Witcher 4, as the game’s reveal trailer kicks off The Game Awards 2024.

It’s long been rumoured that The Witcher 4 would star Ciri as the main character, instead of Geralt, and now it’s been confirmed, after the follow-up to The Witcher 3 got its first ever trailer at The Game Awards 2024, in the early hours of Friday morning.

The trailer is pre-rendered, with no actual gameplay, but it shows a young girl (with imagery seemingly inspired by the movie Midsommar) being sent out by her village to cleanse it of a nearby evil.

How she’s supposed to do that isn’t clear, but Ciri intervenes and takes on the monster using both magic and her twin swords, although in typical The Witcher fashion no good deed goes unpunished and there’s a bittersweet ending to the whole story.

Since the game only entered full production this yearit’s going to be a …