CD Projekt has loads occurring today: The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2, a brand new Witcher 3 expansion and remaster, a remake of the original Witcher, in all probability another stuff I’ve both forgotten or do not learn about, and a few long-simmering thriller tasks which can be nonetheless solely recognized by their codenames, Sirius and Hadar.
You would be forgiven for forgetting about them, given their low profile and drawn-out improvement occasions, however in right this moment’s H1 investors call, CD Projekt’s vp of investor relations Karolina Gnaś reassured everybody that they are nonetheless occurring—simply not anytime quickly.
Requested about Sirius, Gnaś talked about the latest cuts to the development team, saying—as CD Projekt did when the layoffs occurred—that the adjustments have been made to fulfill “the present wants of the mission.”
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“Pre-production is ongoing, and at this stage we’re targeted on testing completely different options and concepts we develop,” Gnaś mentioned. “This mission may be very completely different from our different tasks as a result of it is targeted on multiplayer. So there’s plenty of studying and testing on this specific one.”
Sirius first got here to mild in 2021, when CD Projekt acquired The Molasses Flood, recognized for The Flame in the Flood, to work on a brand new sport ultimately revealed to be primarily based on The Witcher. However the mission bumped into bother a pair years later, and was paused and rebooted; in 2025, CD Projekt’s plan to keep up The Molasses Flood as an successfully impartial studio additionally came to an end.
Regardless of how little we learn about Sirius, we all know even much less about Hadar. It is an all-new property, not primarily based on The Witcher or Cyberpunk, though it will likely be much like the extent that it goals to ship “an emotional, open world experience.” However except for that? It is “progressing dynamically,” no matter meaning, however it’s positively not progressing quickly: It too has been in the works since 2021, and Gnaś mentioned it stays “within the idea part,” primarily the place it was 5 years in the past.
But it surely does sound like issues could be prepared to begin selecting up pace. “We at the moment have over 30 individuals and count on to rent extra, as much as 50 builders by the top of this 12 months,” Gnaś continued. “Proper now the staff is usually targeted on testing completely different approaches and concepts, and prototyping some gameplay components.” After which, with an amusing be aware of finality: “That is it.”
Frankly, I am not too bothered. I’m genuinely interested by Hadar, as a result of it is an authentic factor; Sirius, not a lot, as a result of multiplayer’s probably not my bag and a Witcher sport that not all Geralt on a regular basis is essentially much less attention-grabbing to me anyway. However CD Projekt’s bought sufficient huge stuff cooking I already learn about, so if it needs to horse round with these different issues till 2033 (or no matter—I’ve no insights right here, 2033 is simply suitably far off), that is effective by me.
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