Over 250 developers are working on the next ‘Witcher’ game
Witcher game has over 250 CD Projekt Red employees working on it with even more staff to be transferred after the release of Cyberpunk 2077‘s expansion.Polaris, the codename for the fourth The Witcher game, is using Unreal Engine 5 rather than CD Projekt Red’s own REDengine. This is in order to free up a lot of its developers to refocus on the game itself, as Epic Games‘ engine offers an enormous amount of pre-built assets and tools.As well as this design decision, it looks like the company is ensuring that the next Witcher game is as strong as possible, whenever it releases.“At the end of July, the [Cyberpunk 2077 expansion] Phantom Liberty team working on the pre-release phase consisted of 300 people,” said CEO Adam Kiciński in an earnings call earlier this week (via Video Games Chronicle).“That’s fewer than at the end of 2022, but it still it remains our biggest team.