With Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc firmly within the rear-view mirror, CD Projekt Pink is now full throttle on three separate initiatives. We already know, kind of, what two of them are: One is a brand new trilogy of Witcher video games codenamed Polaris, and the opposite is a Cyberpunk sequel codenamed Orion. However one mysterious star-themed codename stays: Hadar, which we all know is a “new IP” and, effectively, truly that is all we all know.
Till as we speak that’s. Get out your sport style Guess Who boards everybody, as a result of CDPR co-CEO Michał Nowakowski has taken to Twitter to allow us to all know what Hadar is not. Just a few hundred extra tweets like these and we’ll most likely be capable to determine simply what the heck this factor is gonna be.
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“Can solely inform it is positively NOT a cosmic horror in feudal Japan,” stated Nowakowski in response to a tweet from TheNeonArcade speculating that Hadar might be a both “cosmic horror,” or “feudal Japan,” or possibly even “modern-day crime thriller.” Replace your Excel sheets accordingly, of us. We’re nonetheless left with racing sport, flight sim, soccer supervisor, Doom clone, Habbo Lodge-like, MUD and, effectively, each different style on Earth.
The truth is, it nonetheless technically leaves open the three genres/settings proposed by TheNeonArcade initially. In any case, Nowakowski solely stated that the sport is “NOT a cosmic horror in feudal Japan.” It may nonetheless be a cosmic horror in Norfolk, or a feudal Japan-themed rhythm sport. Nonetheless, Nowakowski did joke—in response to a remark remarking that Hadar smelled “of laborious [science-fiction]—that there are “no smells on [Twitter]”. I can not fairly inform if that remark counts as a degree for or in opposition to a CDPR laborious sci-fi sport, however I’ve to say I might be very curious to see the studio attempt its hand at a Starfield-esque challenge.
Alas, we’ll little doubt have to attend years upon years to even get a style of what Hadar goes to be. When the challenge was introduced in 2022, CDPR stated that “early stage conceptual works commenced in 2021,” and that the challenge was “within the earliest levels of the artistic course of, which implies we aren’t growing any sport but, however working solely on the inspiration for this new setting.” Consider what you need, I am banking on a Hatsune Miku: Venture Diva F-like starring Idris Elba.