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While players are busy looking forward to revisiting Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5 Pro with PSSR 2, and whispers persist about a rumored secret expansion for The Witcher 3 quietly taking shape behind the scenes, CD Projekt RED is keeping its eyes fixed firmly on the horizon. At the very top of that horizon sits The Witcher 4, and the army of developers working on it just keeps getting bigger.
The Witcher 4 is moving forward strongly, even if quietly
Since February 2025, CD Projekt has brought more than 220 new developers on board, growing its total headcount from 707 to 933. Of all the projects currently in motion at the studio, The Witcher 4 is by far the biggest beneficiary of that expansion. The figures shared at the latest financial briefing tell a striking story: 499 developers are now assigned to the project, representing 53% of the studio’s entire workforce dedicated to a single game.
« Most of new hires are working on The Witcher 4, » the studio confirmed on X, noting that these additions are « helping to improve quality and scale up solutions presented in the Unreal Fest tech demo across the entire game. » CFO Piotr Nielubowicz echoed the sentiment, stating that production of The Witcher 4 is in full swing, with the team’s energy squarely channeled into « creating worlds with an unprecedented level of detail. » It’s the kind of language that suggests a project firing on all cylinders, even if the outside world has seen precious little of it.
A studio stretched across an ambitious slate
Encouraging as all of this is, it still leaves the most pressing question unanswered: when? No release window has been announced, and none appears to be on the immediate horizon. In the meantime, CD Projekt is running multiple projects in parallel, 149 developers are currently assigned to Cyberpunk 2, 71 are on Project Sirius, and 26 are dedicated to Project Hadar. The remaining 188 are spread across various support functions and undisclosed initiatives.
It’s worth putting the broader picture in perspective. Since its splashy reveal at The Game Awards 2024, The Witcher 4 has been conspicuously quiet. The studio has occasionally offered a comment or two, but beyond an early trailer and a technical demo, neither of which constitutes real gameplay footage, there has been remarkably little to go on. What that tech demo did accomplish, however, was to offer a tantalizing window into the level of ambition CD Projekt is chasing with this project. And judging by the reaction from RPG fans, that glimpse alone was more than enough to set imaginations running wild.
Source: CD Projekt Red
