CDPR's army of Witcher 4 developers grows beyond 400 - the march to release continues

The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is still in development, with the studio behind it CD Projekt Red recently unveiling there are now more than 400 developers working on the project.

The Witcher 4 was recently unveiled at the Game Awards 2025, and while fans of the franchise are more than excited about sinking their teeth into a new world created by Polish developer CD Projekt Red, there will still be quite some time before the title releases. To speed up the development process, more hands have been brought on deck to assist in its creation, with CD Projekt Red recently revealing during an earnings report that it has hired 57 new developers in the last four months - 11 of those developers have begun work on The Witcher 4.

The remaining developers were moved to CD Projekt Red's other projects, such as the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, codenamed Orion, which got the biggest bump in developers by 20, bringing its total to 84 from 64. As for The Witcher 4, CD Projekt Red has an army of developers working on the project, and after the new additions to the team, the total number of developers working on the sequel has reached 411.

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CD Projekt Red has other projects in the works as well, such as the multiplayer Witcher title codenamed Sirius, which 49 developers are working on, the Witcher remake, and a new IP that is still within its concept phase.