The Witcher 4 is "steaming ahead" as CD Projekt rapidly expands with 220 new developers in the past year, and nearly 500 in total working on the RPG

CD Projekt is rapidly expanding as development of The Witcher 4 continues. Alongside the company's latest financial report, executives have offered details on that development. CD Projekt Red now employs nearly 1,000 people, and more than half of them are working on the upcoming RPG.

"Over the past year more than 220 developers have joined our teams," CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a comment shared to Twitter. "Most of new hires are working on The Witcher 4 where they help to improve quality and scale up solutions presented in the Unreal Fest tech demo across the entire game."

CD Projekt Red now has 933 developers in total, with 499 of them assigned to The Witcher 4. You can see the full breakdown of how the devs split across all of CD Projekt Red's upcoming games, but it's clear that the new fantasy RPG is the studio's biggest focus – just as it has been for the past handful of years. Even in 2024, when the game hadn't even entered full production, the company said over 400 people were already working on it.

As chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz puts it in a video overview of the company's financials, "the production of The Witcher 4 is steaming ahead." He, too, cites last year's big engine demo, which showed off tech that the devs are using to "create worlds with an unprecedented level of detail."

While that demo is the closest thing we've seen to The Witcher 4 gameplay, CD Projekt has been keen to emphasize that it was "a technological demo and not an actual game, or gameplay." Still, it was an impressive first look, and if production truly is now "steaming ahead," hopefully it won't be too much longer before we get a real, concrete glimpse at the long-awaited RPG.

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