The Phantom Liberty expansion has completed CD Projekt RED's remarkable comeback story, selling over 4.3 million copies. CEO confirms a brand new AAA IP is in early development.
CD Projekt RED has completed one of gaming's most remarkable turnaround stories. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty — the game's first and only major expansion — has sold 4.3 million copies, bringing the base game's lifetime total to over 30 million units across all platforms. The performance validates the studio's decision to invest heavily in patching and expanding a game that launched to catastrophic reviews in 2020.
Phantom Liberty, set in the new Dogtown district of Night City, follows V and Johnny Silverhand as they assist a US government agent in a spy thriller narrative that draws on classic Cold War espionage tropes. Critics praised the expansion's writing, particularly the performance of Idris Elba as Reed and the moral complexity of its multiple endings. The expansion also introduced Patch 2.0, a comprehensive rework of Cyberpunk 2077's core progression, police system, and vehicle combat that many consider to have transformed the base game into a different — and far better — experience.
CDPR CEO Michał Nowakowski confirmed at the studio's investor day that the team responsible for Phantom Liberty has begun pre-production on an entirely new intellectual property. The project, codenamed "Hadar," is described as "a new universe" with a development team of approximately 200 people, separate from the teams working on The Witcher 4 and a Cyberpunk 2077 sequel. No genre, setting, or platform details have been shared, though CDPR confirmed it is a AAA single-player title.
The company also confirmed that future Cyberpunk releases — specifically the confirmed sequel — will not ship in a broken state, with a new internal certification process requiring all features to be playable end-to-end before entering final QA. The commitment represents a direct institutional response to the 2020 launch disaster that cost the company billions in value and damaged relationships with Sony and Microsoft.