CD Projekt RED is Expanding the Development Team for Project Hadar

CD Projekt RED has announced that it is hiring more developers for codename Project Hadar. Studio VP Marcin Blacha took to social media platform X to invite new developers to join CD Projekt RED with a link to open positions. “Project Hadar needs an extraordinary crew,” wrote Blacha on X. “Please feel invited.”

There are a host of open positions relating to Project Hadar at CD Projekt RED from just about every facet of development the studio currently partakes in. Positions include senior gameplay designer, writer, senior game programmer, senior VFX artist, lead VFX artist, previz artist, senior technical artist, and lead technical artist.

It is worth noting that these positions were the ones specifically labelled for Project Hadar. There were also several open positions where work would involve “multiple projects”, which would likely also include Project Hadar.

Project Hadar was revealed thanks to an investors presentation all the way back in 2022. Since the game is still likely in deep development, the studio hasn’t revealed many details. However, CD Projekt SVP of business development Michał Nowakowski did reveal shortly after the investor presentation that the title would be an RPG, and one that would be similar to what fans of CD Projekt RED’s games have experienced.

“We’re not providing any specific dates in terms of the start of the pre-production of the title,” said Nowakowski at the time. “We’re still at the phase of building that setting, and this is the part preoccupying the core team working on it. However, when it comes to the genre, we do certain types of games, and I think it’s safe to assume that we want to continue to do the games within that kind of genre, so you can imagine what kind of game to expect.”

No further details about Project Hadar have been revealed since then. In the meantime, CD Projekt RED is working on The Witcher 4, which was officially unveiled back in December 2024 during The Game Awards. In development for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, The Witcher 4 will feature Ciri as its main protagonist.

While Ciri was present in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as an important character, the studio has since revealed that The Witcher 4‘s version of the character will be played by Ciara Berkeley, rather than Jo Wyatt who voiced her in The Witcher 3.

The voice actor for traditional The Witcher protagonist Geralt of Rivia, Doug Cockle, has referred to the move to feature Ciri as the protagonist of The Witcher 4 as “a really good move”.

“I’m really excited,” said Cockle. “I think it’s a really good move. I mean, I always thought that continuing the Saga but shifting to Ciri would be a really, really interesting move for all kinds of reasons, but mostly because of things that happen in the books, which I don’t want to give away because people, I want people to go read. So yeah, I think it’s really exciting. I can’t wait. I can’t wait to see what they’ve done.”