CD Projekt's New IP, Project Hadar, Gets Extremely Vague Tease via Job Ad

CD Projekt is focused connected The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 close now, but it’s besides got a marque caller IP successful the works, codenamed Project Hadar. And portion Hadar is shrouded successful mystery, a caller occupation advert has teased what to expect, though fixed it's a CD Projekt game, possibly nary of this should travel arsenic a surprise.

As spotted by GamesRadar, a occupation advertisement for Project Hadar calls for an engineering manager who volition assistance “push the envelope for the next, immersive crippled successful the Hadar world, creating an emotional, open-world acquisition that volition enactment with gamers.”

Based connected that little description, it sounds similar CD Projekt hopes Hadar volition go its 3rd tentpole video crippled franchise, up determination with The Witcher and Cyberpunk, and volition play on the aforesaid lines. Given however palmy some bid person been, that’s a lofty ambition. But you wouldn’t stake against it, this being CD Projekt’s archetypal own, archetypal IP aft processing games for existing properties for adjacent to 20 years.

Hadar, though, is apt inactive years away, contempt authoritative aboriginal conceptual enactment opening successful precocious 2021. The instauration of the caller mounting was inactive successful a originative exploration signifier a fewer years ago, and is lone present described arsenic being successful the "early pre-development" stage. Is Hadar a phantasy title? A sci-fi game? A crippled successful a modern setting? Is it purely single-player oregon volition it person multiplayer? We don’t know.

We bash cognize Hadar is inactive a comparatively tiny task wrong CD Projekt itself, with conscionable 24 radical moving connected it, according to the company’s latest fiscal report. To enactment that into context, 513 radical are moving connected The Witcher 4, 163 connected Cyberpunk 2, and 83 connected Sirius, the multiplayer-focused video crippled acceptable successful The Witcher universe. And we present cognize The Witcher 3 is getting a marque caller expansion, though the dense lifting is being done by Fool’s Theory.

On apical of that, CD Projekt has an highly ambitious program to motorboat The Witcher 4, The Witcher 5, and The Witcher 6 each successful a six-year clip period. It's this program which fundamentally rules retired the anticipation of expansions for The Witcher 4. And past there’s Cyberpunk 2 to consider. How Hadar slots successful CD Projekt's packed merchandise plans remains to beryllium seen.

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