Two thirds of CD Projekt's developers are now working on The Witcher 4, having reached their target headcount

Two thirds of CD Projekt are currently working on the next Witcher game, codenamed Polaris. As it turned out during the publisher's fiscal year 2023 earnings call, the development team now has 403 employees.

CEO Michal Nowakowski explained that after the release of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, the number of employees working on this game has decreased up to 17 people, and the rest were distributed among other projects.

The team working on the Witcher spin-off Project Sirius, led by The Molasses Flood, has not changed in size since the last CD Projekt update and still has just under 40 employees.

Back in January, CD Projekt CEO Adam Badowski expressed hope that the production phase of the fourth mainline Witcher game, Polaris, would begin this year. In May last year, CD Projekt confirmed that it had completed the research phase of the game, which will be the first part of a new trilogy, and entered the pre-production stage.

Last November, the company said that almost 330 developers were working on the project, making it CD Projekt's largest development team. “We would like to have about 400 people working on the project by mid-year,” Badowski said at the time, a goal that has now been achieved.