The Ian Games Network scooped a scloosie, with Gwent’s Twitter account confirming yup, the mysterious standalone singleplayer game is due in 2022. “It’s not another Witcher Tales [game] but something different,” Gwent comms lead Paweł Burza told IGN. “We’re aiming to provide a captivating single-player for players who prefer it over competitive multiplayer Gwent.” Beyond that, IGN had some concept art of a fire elemental, a barbarian, a town, a workshop/trophy room/alchemy lab, and yes, a golden nekker. Who knows what’s up with that mysterious critter. CD Projekt, I guess, but they’re not talking. The Ian Games Network speculate a lot about what might happen, when this might launch, whether these cards might be added to regular Gwent, but it’s all hazy for now. I enjoyed Gwent as a side-game inside The Witcher 3, a few hands played between monstermurders and mysteries, but not enough to get into the free-to-play standalone competitive multiplayer version of Gwent. Then I forgot that CDPR also released a singleplayer RPG using Gwent for battles. Our former boy Brendy’s Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales review said it “has a few problems with pacing and a dry story in places, but otherwise it’s a decent singleplayer spin-off of Gwent and the cards are worth a shuffle.” Oh, it’s 70% off in the Steam sale right now, hmm!
