Storied RPG improvement studio CD Projekt RED has revealed that it plans to introduce a 3rd Intellectual Property to face alongside Cyberpunk and The Witcher – and it is now within the earliest levels of improvement.

Codenamed Project Hadar, the franchise actually is in its infancy, nonetheless – as precise recreation improvement has not but began. The studio says that “IP incubation” has been ongoing since late 2021, and that the sport presently has a “strike staff” within the “conceptual part”. 

“Hadar is a codename for a 3rd, fully distinct IP, created from scratch inside CDPR,” the studio tweeted at this time, following on from point out of the challenge throughout a wide-reaching Investor Relations name. “The challenge is within the earliest levels of the artistic course of, which suggests we aren’t creating any recreation but, however working completely on the inspiration for this new setting.”

Notable is the wording that that is created “from scratch” – a primary for the studio, the place The Witcher was based mostly on books and Cyberpunk on a profitable tabletop RPG. That, in itself, is thrilling.

Today’s CD Projekt investor name took a film studio fashion method to tasks, outright revealing the subsequent decade-plus of plans for the studio as a substitute of making an attempt to maintain secrets and techniques that’ll solely find yourself getting leaked on-line by clout-chasing insiders. As a part of the decision, the Project Hadar announcement was flanked by the reveal of a collection of latest video games in The Witcher universe, and the affirmation {that a} sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 can be developed by a brand new CD Projekt studio presently being arrange within the USA.

And will Project Hadar be a role-playing recreation? Should we be writing about it right here, on RPG Site? Well – the reply is – in all probability, sure. During the investor name, CD Projekt representatives repeatedly described the studio as a developer of role-playing video games – even when speaking within the context of those new, upcoming titles.

“We are right here to create revolutionary role-playing video games with memorable tales that encourage players,” stated studio bigwig Adam Kiciński, addressing traders in a video package deal proven in the course of the name. This language appears fairly definitive, and so it leaves us gingerly inserting Project Hadar onto our calendar as an upcoming, instantly hotly-anticipated RPG. We is perhaps ready some time, although…