CD Projekt thriller video games replace: Sure, they’re nonetheless occurring, and no, not any time quickly

CD Projekt has so much happening lately: The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2, a brand new Witcher 3 growth 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 tasks which can be nonetheless solely identified 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 right now’s H1 traders name, 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 event crew, saying—as CD Projekt did when the layoffs occurred—that the adjustments had been made to fulfill “the present wants of the mission.”

“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 a variety of studying and testing on this specific one.”

Sirius first got here to gentle in 2021, when CD Projekt acquired The Molasses Flood, identified for The Flame within the Flood, to work on a brand new sport finally revealed to be based mostly on The Witcher. However the mission bumped into hassle a pair years later, and was paused and rebooted; in 2025, CD Projekt’s plan to keep up The Molasses Flood as an successfully unbiased studio additionally got here to an finish.

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Regardless of how little we find out about Sirius, we all know even much less about Hadar. It is an all-new property, not based mostly on The Witcher or Cyberpunk, though will probably 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, however it’s positively not progressing quickly: It too has been within the works since 2021, and Gnaś mentioned it stays “within the idea part,” primarily the place it was 5 years in the past.

Nevertheless it does sound like issues could be prepared to begin choosing up pace. “We at the moment have over 30 individuals and anticipate to rent extra, as much as 50 builders by the top of this yr,” Gnaś continued. “Proper now the crew is usually targeted on testing completely different approaches and concepts, and prototyping some gameplay parts.” After which, with an amusing word of finality: “That is it.”

Frankly, I am not too bothered. I’m genuinely inquisitive about Hadar, as a result of it is an unique 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 fascinating to me anyway. However CD Projekt’s obtained sufficient massive 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 advantageous by me.