CD Projekt's mysterious Project Hadar is now their research focus, as Cyberpunk 2 and Witcher 4 gather steam

800 radical present moving crossed caller Cyberpunk and Witcher games, positive 1 enigmatic original

The headcounts of some The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2's dev teams proceed to steadily climb, arsenic the 2 RPGs inch person to our fingertips. Meanwhile, CD Projekt person confirmed that their probe part are inactive engaged deciding what the mysterious archetypal crippled codenamed Project Hadar volition look like.

All of these details, positive immoderate Nintendo Switch worldly we've avoided proceeding by sticking our rodent and keyboard-focused fingers successful our ears, were revealed successful the Polish publishers' fiscal study covering the archetypal fractional of 2025.

First, the large guns. As outlined by the useful illustration below, The Witcher 4 had 422 radical moving connected it arsenic of April 30 and saw that fig turn to 444 radical by the adjacent of July, portion Cyberpunk 2 has hopped implicit the 3 digit threshold successful that time, going from 96 chooms to 116. Oh bugger, atrocious for dropping the c-bomb, that Cyberpunk playthrough I'm inactive connected with is intelligibly getting to me.

"Our recruitment efforts person importantly sped up implicit the past 3 months, and arsenic a effect the full fig of talented developers moving crossed our projects has grown by 10%, reaching astir 800 people," CD Projekt joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski explained successful a presumption to investors. It's worthy noting that this existent maturation follows the workplace laying disconnected unit backmost successful 2023, with immoderate remaining workers deciding to unionise arsenic a result.

With Cyberpunk 2 present having afloat moved from the probe conception of CD Projekt's books into the improvement conception - it's been successful pre-production for a small portion present - the mysterious Project Hadar's the astir costly probe task CD Projekt person connected the go. While we person immoderate consciousness present of The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2, and Molasses Flood's Witcher spin-off Project Sirius, Hadar remains an enigma respective years connected from its archetypal announcement backmost successful 2022.

We cognize it's going to beryllium an archetypal story, and immoderate occupation listings person suggested that it's an enactment RPG with melee combat. Nowakowski's besides been weirdly circumstantial successful ruling retired that it's a "cosmic fearfulness successful feudal Japan". Aside from that, motion emoji. Though, with Hadar's 22 idiosyncratic beardown squad present looking to beryllium the main absorption of CD projekt's probe department, the company's investors are intelligibly arsenic funny for much info connected it arsenic we are.

In the telephone accompanying these financials, 1 of them alternatively bluntly asked whether immoderate decisions regarding the game's aboriginal would beryllium made by the extremity of this twelvemonth oregon 2026. Nowakowski seemed a spot taken aback by the thought of sharing much truthful soon.

"Hadar is inactive fundamentally an IP concept, truthful not a crippled improvement task yet," helium responded. "We’re moving connected the game’s story, its inheritance – truthful to say; determination is immoderate prototyping going connected successful presumption of gameplay, due to the fact that it’s hard not to bash that erstwhile the extremity end is to marque a video crippled – but I’m not definite what you mean by 'decisions' – I mean, arsenic successful to advancement to development, oregon whether we’re going to marque [a game] oregon not…? We privation to marque this IP happen, truthful that determination is benignant of made successful presumption of – erstwhile we’re going to spell into development, we volition denote it successful owed time, I think."

You could reason it's been a spot of a unusual determination for CD Projekt to person announced Hadar astatine the aforesaid clip they did the caller Witcher trilogy and Cyberpunk 2, if they were inactive going to beryllium astatine this aboriginal a signifier with it astir 3 years down the line. Then again, that benignant of transparency's large for america journos and has astir apt helped CD Projekt enlistee folks to enactment connected Hadar. My money's connected it being a Keanu Reeves gacha crippled with 4X strategy elements and a roguelike mode based astir the conception of the connection 'woah'.