Project Hadar — CD Projekt's Mysterious Brand New IP — Sounds Like It's Going to Be Exactly What You'd Expect From the Studio Behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk

CD Projekt is focused on The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 right now, but it’s also got a brand new IP in the works, codenamed Project Hadar. And while Hadar is shrouded in mystery, a new job advert has teased what to expect, although given it's a CD Projekt game, perhaps none of this should come as a surprise. As spotted by GamesRadar, a job ad for Project Hadar calls for an engineering director who will help “push the envelope for the next, immersive game in the Hadar world, creating an emotional, open-world experience that will stay with gamers.” Based on that brief description, it sounds like CD Projekt hopes Hadar will become its third tentpole video game franchise, up there with The Witcher and Cyberpunk, and will play along the same lines. Given how successful both series have been, that’s a lofty ambition. But you wouldn’t bet against it, this being CD Projekt’s first own, original IP after developing games for existing properties for close to 20 years. Hadar, though, is likely still years away, despite official early conceptual work beginning in late 2021. The foundation of the new setting was still in a creative exploration stage a few years ago, and is only now described as