The new Witcher game that was internally rebooted earlier this year has found a "framework" for its new direction.
In a statement earlier today, publisher CD Projekt Red announced "the conclusion of work on defining a new framework for Project Sirius." Billed as a Witcher game for fans of the Netflix show to enjoy, Project Sirius is being developed outside CDPR, at the Boston-based The Molasses Flood.
Back in March, CDPR announced that, having evaluated the "scope and commercial potential" of the game's original concept, it was working "on formulating a new framework for this project." That added up to an internal reboot of Project Sirius, confirmed a week later when CFO Piotr Nielubowicz told investors that "we don't want to carry on with projects that we are not aligned with."
- "Project Hadar needs an extraordinary crew" says Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 studio, sharing lots of job openings for the studio's first original game
- The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs praise and support vampire RPG from former CDPR staff: "These games have shared lineage and shared values"
As part of its statement, CDPR said that it would be writing off some of the cost of the project - amounting to 2.7 million Polish Zloty (around $650,000). More money - 21.5 million Zloty ($5.15 million) - will be re-allocated to other costs. The entire cost of the project in 2022 amounted to 33.4 million Zloty ($8 million).
While Project Sirius has had a difficult year, the full list of upcoming CDPR games is a big one. As well as this co-op project, there's Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, Project Orion. Then there's The Witcher 4, part of a new Witcher saga, the Witcher remake, and the mysterious Project Hadar, a new IP.
That's a lot of games, but the most important thing is that Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is "at the final production phase" and that CDPR is finally, even accidentally, saying The Witcher 4.
