CD Projekt has confirmed layoffs on Project Sirius, the multiplayer spinoff of The Witcher, after the cuts were first reported by Kotaku.
We adjusted the size of the Sirius team to reflect the project's needs at this stage of development. As a result, four people in Boston and five in Warsaw are leaving the company, while nine others have been invited to internal recruitment processes for potential roles on other CD Projekt Red projects.
That is 18 developers moved off the project in total, nine of them made redundant. The proportion matters more than the raw figure: CD Projekt's Q1 2026 financial report put 83 people on Sirius, so the cut removes more than a fifth of the team, and IGN estimates the headcount is now closer to 60. Rock Paper Shotgun puts the reduction at around a quarter.
A project that has never settled
Sirius has had a difficult run. CD Projekt acquired Boston studio The Molasses Flood, maker of The Flame in the Flood and Drake Hollow, in 2021 to build an ambitious project based on one of the publisher's existing properties, promising at the time that the studio would keep its own identity and not be merged into existing teams.
That commitment ended in 2025, when The Molasses Flood was fully absorbed into CD Projekt's structure. The move followed trouble on Sirius that had already led to a reboot and an updated direction in 2023 - which itself came with layoffs, making this the second time the project's staff has been cut.
Nothing of the game has been shown publicly. Nearly four years after it was announced, it still has no proper title, and PC Gamer notes that five years on from the acquisition almost nothing is known about it beyond that it is a multiplayer Witcher game, rumoured to be an RPG. There is no suggestion it has been cancelled.
Where the staff are going
The nine offered internal moves have plenty of destinations. IGN reports CD Projekt has 513 people on The Witcher 4, 163 on Cyberpunk 2 and 24 on the new IP Project Hadar, with a The Witcher 3 expansion due next year and a remake of the first game also in development. The company has said it intends to ship The Witcher 4, 5 and 6 within a six-year window.
