CD Projekt has loads occurring nowadays: The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2, a brand new Witcher 3 enlargement and remaster, a remake of the unique Witcher, most likely another stuff I’ve both forgotten or do not find out about, and a few long-simmering thriller initiatives which might 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 growth occasions, however in as we speak’s H1 buyers name, CD Projekt’s vice chairman of investor relations Karolina Gnaś reassured everybody that they are nonetheless taking place—simply not anytime quickly.
Requested about Sirius, Gnaś talked about the current cuts to the event staff, saying—as CD Projekt did when the layoffs occurred—that the modifications have been made to satisfy “the present wants of the venture.”
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“Pre-production is ongoing, and at this stage we’re centered on testing completely different options and concepts we develop,” Gnaś mentioned. “This venture may be very completely different from our different initiatives as a result of it is centered on multiplayer. So there’s lots of studying and testing on this specific one.”
Sirius first got here to gentle in 2021, when CD Projekt acquired The Molasses Flood, recognized for The Flame within the Flood, to work on a brand new sport ultimately revealed to be primarily based on The Witcher. However the venture bumped into hassle a pair years later, and was paused and rebooted; in 2025, CD Projekt’s plan to take care of The Molasses Flood as an successfully impartial studio additionally got here to an finish.
Regardless of how little we find out 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 is going to be just like the extent that it goals to ship “an emotional, open world expertise.” However except for that? It is “progressing dynamically,” no matter which means, nevertheless it’s positively not progressing quickly: It too has been within the works since 2021, and Gnaś mentioned it stays “within the idea part,” basically the place it was 5 years in the past.
Nevertheless it does sound like issues is perhaps prepared to begin choosing up velocity. “We at the moment have over 30 individuals and count on to rent extra, as much as 50 builders by the tip of this yr,” Gnaś continued. “Proper now the staff is generally centered on testing completely different approaches and concepts, and prototyping some gameplay parts.” After which, with an amusing notice of finality: “That is it.”
Frankly, I am not too bothered. I’m genuinely interested in Hadar, as a result of it is an unique factor; Sirius, not a lot, as a result of multiplayer’s not likely my bag and a Witcher sport that not all Geralt on a regular basis is basically much less attention-grabbing to me anyway. However CD Projekt’s received sufficient large stuff cooking I already find out 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 fantastic by me.
