CD Projekt has financially written off and seemingly rebooted development on its Witcher spinoff game

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First reported by TechPowerUp(opens in new tab), CD Projekt revealed in a March 20 announcement to investors(opens in new tab) that it is writing off expenses related to the development of Project Sirius, one of its three Witcher games currently in the oven, and seemingly rebooting the project. «The aforementioned decision is based on results of evaluation of the scope and commercial potential of the original concept of Project Sirius,» the investor report reads, «and ongoing work on formulating a new framework for this project.»

CD Projekt announced three new Witcher games(opens in new tab) in October, a bit of a Witcher bonanza before the release of its performance-intensive, but still quite nice Next Gen patch for the Witcher 3. Two of those projects are not affected by this announcement: Polaris, the upcoming "Witcher 4(opens in new tab)" mainline series follow-up being made by CD Projekt Red, and Canis Majoris, the remake of 2007's original The Witcher(opens in new tab) in development at Fool's Theory, a studio employing some CDPR and Witcher series veterans.

Sirius is being developed by The Molasses Flood, a Boston-based studio acquired by CD Projekt(opens in new tab) in April 2022. When Sirius was publicly announced in October, The Molasses Flood described it as «offering multiplayer gameplay on top of a single-player experience including a campaign with quests and a story.» This struck us as a big departure from the presumably bread-and-butter, capital-E Epic RPG fare promised by Polaris and Canis Majoris, but we were pretty excited at the prospect of a multiplayer Witcher game(opens in new tab) setting itself apart from the rest of the series.

In CD Projekt's write-off announcement, it described spending the