GWENT: Rogue Mage Announced and Released

Earlier this year, we learned that CD Projekt was working on a new single-player GWENT game. And now, this new game has been revealed as GWENT: Rogue Mage, but it’s now positioned as a standalone single-player GWENT expansion. You can purchase it on Steam and GOG for $9.99 or your regional equivalent.

Check out the official launch trailer:

And here’s a quick description:

Hundreds of years before Geralt and the other witchers roamed the Continent, the Conjunction of Spheres brought endless ranks of monsters into the world. Humanity desperately needed a way to fight back the onslaught to survive.

Follow the journey of a young and ambitious mage, Alzur, and his companion Lily, who embark on a dangerous quest to create a living weapon that will eradicate the monster threat once and for all.

GWENT: Rogue Mage is a first single-player expansion to GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. It combines the best elements of roguelike, deckbuilding, and strategy games with the unique mechanics of GWENT card battles.

Then, you might also want to check out this IGN article that talks about this new “expansion” and shares some screenshots and quotes from the project’s director. A quick excerpt:

“Our goal with Rogue Mage’s story is to give players enough context on who Alzur is, what is his motivation, and the general setting of the world he lives in. 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.”

CD Projekt Red decided to release Rogue Mage as a separate package to multiplayer Gwent due to its size, with the project growing considerably since it was first suggested in late 2019. “Instead of chopping the campaign into multiple pieces and using microtransactions to let players progress between chapters, we decided to make it a straightforward buy-to-play title,” Tortsov said.