CD Projekt Crimson has given a quick description of its mysterious new IP, codenamed Hadar.
Hadar was first introduced again in October 2022, and shall be CD Projekt‘s first authentic IP (The Witcher was based mostly on a sequence of fantasy novels and Cyberpunk 2077 was based mostly on a board sport).
Since then, nevertheless, no additional info has been shared concerning the sport, leaving gamers at nighttime as to what Hadar will entail.
Whereas CD Projekt doesn’t but seem able to correctly reveal the sport, a brand new job advert noticed by GamesRadar does no less than affirm that the sport shall be open-world once more, and may have a powerful give attention to narrative.
The advert, for an engineering director on the studio’s Warsaw workplace, says the profitable applicant will “assist push the envelope for the following, immersive sport within the Hadar world, creating an emotional, open-world expertise that can stick with avid gamers”. It additionally notes that the sport will use Unreal Engine 5.
Throughout an earnings report final month, CD Projekt famous that the scale of the staff engaged on Hadar was nonetheless comparatively small in the mean time, with 24 workers engaged on the sport by the top of April 2026.
By comparability, 513 are engaged on The Witcher 4, whereas 163 are engaged on Cyberpunk 2 and 83 are engaged on Sirius (a Witcher-themed multiplayer sport), suggesting Hadar remains to be a really good distance off.
Again in 2022 when it first revealed that it was engaged on Hadar, CD Projekt co-founder Michał Nowakowski mentioned that whereas Hadar would be the firm’s first IP, gamers ought to nonetheless anticipate it to play very similar to the opposite video games it’s recognized for.
“In the case of the style, we do sure varieties of video games and I believe it’s secure to imagine that we need to proceed to do the video games inside that type of style, so you’ll be able to think about what sort of sport to anticipate,” he defined.
