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Project Sirius Has Seemingly Been Written-Off and Rebooted by CD Projekt Red
Project Sirius was CD Projekt Red’s highly anticipated spinoff in the Witcher lineup.
In a previous post titled Details on the Witcher Remake and the Witcher 4, I spoke about exciting announcements made by the CEO of CD Projekt Red. Although today, I bring less exciting news.
CD Projekt has announced that it is writing off expenses related to the development of Project Sirius, one of its three Witcher games currently in development, and is rebooting the project.
The decision is based on evaluating the original concept of Project Sirius and ongoing work on formulating a new framework for the project.
CD Projekt announced three new Witcher games in October, with only one of the three, Polaris, the upcoming “Witcher 4” mainline series follow-up, being made by CD Projekt Red unaffected by this announcement.
The Molasses Flood, a Boston-based studio acquired by CD Projekt in April 2022, is developing Project Sirius.
When it was publicly announced in October, The Molasses Flood described it as “offering multiplayer gameplay on top of a single-player experience including a campaign with quests and a story.”
The write-off announcement described spending the equivalent of $7.75 million on Sirius’ development in 2022, with an additional $2.2 million at the beginning of this year.
This situation is certainly not ideal for the developers working on Sirius but is perhaps preferable to a late cancellation/reboot.
If we take The Molasses Flood’s April 2022 acquisition as a rough start date for the beginning of Sirius’ development and consider the ever-lengthening lead times for game dev, this is quite early in the process for a full reboot of work on the game.
A Molasses Flood job listing from back in October described it as being in “pre-production” while the studio was looking for a Narrative director as late as December.
Those positions have either been filled already, or the studio has instituted a hiring freeze with the shift in development — there are currently no open positions listed on The Molasses Flood’s career page.
CD Projekt has stated that we can expect Canis Majoris/The Witcher 1 remake only after Polaris/The Witcher 4, which has no release date or even many publicly available details.
The next adventure from CD Projekt is the Idris Elba and Keanu Reeves Cyberpunk Celebrity Power Hour, Phantom Liberty, which will be released sometime this year.
It’s not like we were expecting to get Sirius anytime soon, as we only had the barest of details on this Witcher spinoff, while its cohorts are also a long way away.
Final Words
While the news of the write-off and reboot of Project Sirius may be disappointing for fans of the Witcher series, it is important to remember that CD Projekt is a company that takes the quality of its games seriously.
With the recent release of the Next Gen patch for The Witcher 3, CD Projekt has shown that it is committed to providing its fans with the best possible gaming experience.
The decision to reboot Project Sirius is likely a result of this commitment to quality, and we can expect that the game will be all the better for it when it is eventually released.
In the meantime, we can look forward to the release of Phantom Liberty and the ongoing development of Polaris and Canis Majoris.
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