Tomasz Marchewka

Role

Tomasz Marchewka is the Story Director of The Witcher IV at CD Projekt Red. He works alongside Narrative Director Philipp Weber and the wider writing team to shape the game's overarching story. The Story Director role at CDPR sits one level above day-to-day quest writing, owning the high-level plot architecture and the through-line of the main narrative across the game's arcs.

Career at CD Projekt Red

Marchewka has been at CDPR for over a decade and is a senior member of the studio's writing staff. Prior to The Witcher IV, he contributed to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and the Blood and Wine expansion, and he was lead writer on Cyberpunk 2077 and the Phantom Liberty expansion. His promotion to Story Director on the new game reflects the studio's pattern of advancing senior narrative leads from one project to the next.

Writing Style

In public statements about his approach, Marchewka has described his stories as rarely landing on a happy ending and has highlighted his attraction to flawed characters and inevitable mistakes. He is also a published novelist and short-story writer outside game work, and has cited noir fiction as a key influence. These notes describe his stated approach and influences, not the specifics of The Witcher IV's story, which CDPR has not detailed publicly.

Relevance to The Witcher IV

Because Marchewka owns the story architecture for The Witcher IV, his influence sits behind the central plot rather than on individual side quests. The wiki's expectations about the tone of the game's main arc, especially around moral ambiguity and characters making consequential mistakes, can be partly traced to his stated writing preferences. The actual story content of The Witcher IV will be visible only as CDPR releases plot-relevant material.