New Witcher game is for fans of Netflix show, says CDPR

So how about all those CD Projekt Red announcements? On Tuesday (4 October) The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developers announced a plethora of exciting upcoming projects, sending fans into hype overdrive and the GAMINGbible editorial team into a writing frenzy. 

From the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, codenamed Orion (who’d have thought that’d be something to be excited for back in December 2020, huh?) and a whole new “entirely distinct” IP codenamed Hadar, a whopping five new titles in The Witcher series were confirmed to be in development. That’s right, five - the game we’ve previously been referring to as The Witcher 4 (now known as its codename, Polaris) will also be getting a further two sequels, creating a brand new trilogy. Then, there’s Canis Majoris, a full-fledged title separate to that new trilogy, which will be developed by an external studio.

While you're here, be sure to take a look at this awesome Witcher wood burning art below.

Finally is Project Sirius - developed by The Molasses Flood with support from CDPR, the game is set to offer a “multiplayer gameplay on top of a single-player experience including a campaign with quests and a story”. As reported by GamesRadar+, according to CDPR’s business development SVP Michał Nowakowski, this title aims to reach a wider demographic of fans, for example, those who’ve only watched the Netflix series. 

“I can definitely say Project Sirius is not a mobile game,” Nowakowski revealed in a Q&A (via GamesRadar+). “When we were talking about it, I think we actually were talking about broader demographics, which means we want to reach to people that we were not necessarily efficiently reaching through the Witcher games that we've been making so far. So imagine people who maybe watched the TV show but are not necessarily into playing very dark-themed, hardcore RPG games. So this is more the kind of thinking behind that.”