CD Projekt announces a brand new role-playing game

What kind of Hadar game will it be?

CD Projekt has a lot planned: not only was a new cyberpunk game announced during a conference call, but also two more The Witcher titles that are to come in addition to the already announced New Saga trilogy. And as if that were not enough, it is with Hadar also a brand new brand in development.

Hadar becomes CDPR’s first own brand

There is not much to know about the Hadar project yet, at least it has already been revealed to shareholders. However, there were still a few small pieces of information that gave us at least a small idea of ​​what Hadar is.

Here’s what CD Projekt revealedthat Hadar is a standalone IP that is “significantly different from The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077”. It is still in the design phase and is entirely developed in-house. Since 2021, a small team has been working on the game, which is obviously an RPG again. Michał Nowakowski, SVP of Business Development at CD Projekt, at least indirectly confirms the genre in an interview (via VGC):

Here are the other announcements:

What could Hadar be talking about?

It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that CDPR doesn’t deviate much from role-playing. The question of the decor is in any case more fascinating. So far, Hadar is just the code name, which doesn’t necessarily have to draw conclusions about the game, but could. Because if this is the case, then it is interesting to know what Hadar means, among other things:

• Archaeological site in Ethiopia, where, among other things, fossils of Australopithecus afarensis (hominids) were found. Among them is the well-known fossil “Lucy”.
• Star in the constellation Centaurus
• masculine given name of Arabic, Hebrew and Persian origin

If we now lean out the window with this background knowledge and speculate, then could we possibly expect the next Mass Effect with Hadar? We can at least rule out a cyberpunk setting and medieval fantasy, since Hadar would be very different from The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077. Also, we don’t think the game has anything to do with fossil digs or a protagonist named Hadar. A SciFi setting seems more likely due to the serial image.

But these are only first ideas! It may as well be that no conclusions can be drawn from the code name.

But what do you think Hadar is about? What game would you like?