Previously, Reigns developer Nerial collaborated with HBO for a Game of Thrones version of the "swipe 'em up" strategy game – which anoints you as a monarch who decides their next move by swiping left or right on scenario cards, turning the fate of your kingdom into an RPG dating app. Geralt "dies a lot" in the new Witcher game out next month, a "Witcher fan-fiction simulator" from Dandelion the Bard "Absolute idiocy" killed The Witcher game that never was, but OG dev is happy CD Projekt Red landed the series instead Baldur's Gate 3 provided "a lot of inspiration" for CD Projekt Red, but The Witcher 4 devs are sticking to their own RPG formula: "We definitely are not going to make a game like Larian did" But while "Reigns: Game of Thrones is still a light management simulation through the eyes of the ruler, as the original Reigns was," Harrington-Shaw and Alliot say, "In this game you play as Geralt in his role and position as a witcher. It's not so much about the fate of the Continent as it is about being an outcast who needs to strike a balance between the factions he encounters – humans, nonhumans and mages – while also maintaining his reputation as a monster hunter." Originally, Nerial thought about using "a structure which involved the re-discovery of the [alchemical experiment] Trial of the Grasses, leading to new witchers and perhaps even resurrection." But CD Projekt Red swooped in as Reigns: The Witcher's true overlord. Harrington-Shaw and Alliot say, "Hordes of zombie witchers was considered a step too far…!" Geralt "dies a lot" in the new Witcher game out next month, a "Witcher fan-fiction simulator" narrated by Dandelion the bard and published by Devolver Digital.