CD Projekt Red conscionable announced a Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, presently codenamed Project Orion. The developer tweeted its semipermanent improvement program Tuesday, sharing that Project Orion volition “take the Cyberpunk franchise further and proceed harnessing the imaginable of this acheronian aboriginal universe.”

Adam Kiciński, CD Projket’s president and CEO, said successful a video published to YouTube that the adjacent 3 games successful the developer’s pipeline are based successful The Witcher franchise, meaning that Cyberpunk 2077’s sequel is good disconnected successful the future. He called the sequel an ambitious rubric that volition necessitate expanding CD Projekt’s much than 1,200 idiosyncratic workplace adjacent further; the workplace volition unfastened a caller hub successful Boston, which volition absorption connected Project Orion alongside its Vancouver determination arsenic CD Projekt Red North America.

CD Projekt Red did not denote further details, oregon an expected merchandise window.

Alongside the news, CD Projekt associated CEO Marcin Iwiński announced that he’s stepping down from that relation and is looking to articulation CD Projekt’s supervisory committee arsenic chairman. It’s a non-executive role, Iwiński said, which volition let him to “remain progressive and engaged” arsenic a large shareholder and to enactment the absorption board.

Cyberpunk 2077 launched successful precocious 2020 successful an infamous — and disastrous — state, so afloat of bugs and other show issues that Sony Interactive Entertainment pulled it wholly disconnected its PlayStation Store. Microsoft, too, offered refunds, with the expected outgo reaching astatine slightest $51 cardinal successful refunds and mislaid sales, according to Ars Technica. CD Projekt Red’s “Help Me Refund” program, abstracted from level initiatives, outgo the developer $2.17 cardinal of the $51 cardinal total. Still, it was apt an insignificant nonaccomplishment to CD Projekt, which made more than $560 cardinal successful gross arsenic of April 2021.

CD Projekt Red has been updating the crippled continuously implicit the past 2 years since Cyberpunk 2077’s release. With the updates, CD Projekt Red is besides moving connected Cyberpunk 2077’s expansion, Phantom Liberty. CD Projekt Red noted that 350 radical are moving connected the story-driven expansion.

Phantom Liberty is expected retired successful 2023.