Witcher 3 veterans announce a multiplayer stealth-action game set in feudal Japan
In 2021, CD Projekt successfully crowdfunded a Witcher-based manga(opens in new tab) called The Witcher: Ronin that reimagines Geralt and the gang in feudal Japan. Now former members of CD Projekt are looking to take it one step further by launching a studio called Dark Passenger(opens in new tab) that's working on an all-new online action game set in—you guessed it—feudal Japan.
Dark Passenger's co-founders, Jakub Ben and Marcin Michalski, both worked on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and its expansions as part of CD Projekt, Ben as a cinematic artist and art team coordinator and Michalski as environmental artist; Michalski later served as senior artist on Gwent and Thronebreaker. They were also «outsource partners» on Cyberpunk 2077 through the Realtime Warriors(opens in new tab) studio, which created in-game television cinematics.
The Dark Passenger project—which doesn't yet have an official title—will be their first standalone game: A first-person perspective online multiplayer game supporting PvP and co-op PvE, built in Unreal Engine 5.
«Our goal is to create highly exciting on-line experiences that are focused both on cooperation and rivalry,» the studio's website says. «We’re fascinated by interpersonal interactions, alliances, daring confrontations and unexpected twists of events. In order to make every game unique and surprising, we’re using advanced, procedural solutions. While the goal will be the same for all players, every time achieving it will require a different approach, tactics and taken routes.
»Our locomotion system will allow players to perform incredible evolutions such as running on arrows that were fired by other players, fast climbing on vertical surfaces with the use of shuko claws or using yari spear
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