WARSAW – The last time CD Projekt Red tried to put a Witcher game on a smartphone, it lasted eighteen months. The Witcher: Monster Slayer launched in the summer of 2021 on the back of the franchise’s Netflix-fueled popularity, invited players to chase monsters through their own neighborhoods in the style of Pokémon GO, and shut down permanently in 2023 without ever finding an audience. Before that came The Witcher Battle Arena, a mobile MOBA that survived less than a year. And before that, nothing.
Now, according to a report published Sunday by the gaming outlet MP1st, the Polish studio is building something structurally different: a free-to-play cooperative action RPG for PC and mobile that skips consoles entirely, drops the Geralt of Rivia franchise anchor, and places players inside a customizable Witcher of their own creation – set in the year 1230, when the white-haired monster hunter whose name defines the series was still a young trainee at Kaer Morhen.
The game has not been officially announced. CD Projekt Red and Scopely, the Los Angeles-based mobile publisher widely believed to be the studio’s development partner, have not responded to the report. What has been confirmed, in CD Projekt’s official Q1 2026 earnings transcript, is that the Scopely project is “definitely not a story for 2026” – a signal that whatever is being built remains deep in iteration, nowhere near a public reveal.
That gap between what is known and what is not is precisely where this story lives. The setting choice of 1230 is not arbitrary. It predates every game in the franchise, predates the narrative weight that Geralt carries across three mainline titles and dozens of hours of player investment. By anchoring the game there, the designers avoid the comparison problem that has haunted every Witcher spinoff: no one playing a co-op mobile RPG will spend the first hour asking why the controls aren’t as good as The Witcher 3. Because Geralt isn’t in it. The slate, at least thematically, is clean.
What the leaked details describe is a game built around contracts. Players accept monster-killing jobs, head into the kinds of environments that define the franchise – dark forests, fog-draped ruins, villages that feel lived in and unsafe – and work through them in co-op. Combat runs on a skill-based system tied to Witcher schools, with Signs and potion-brewing functioning as the progression layer. The designers appear to have prioritized timing and execution: well-placed blocks, dodges, and parries rather than statistical damage outputs. That design instinct is sound for a game that needs to hold mobile audiences who have shorter sessions and less tolerance for friction than PC players.
The Scopely inference rests on a March 2025 investor announcement in which CD Projekt confirmed a strategic partnership with the mobile studio – one of the largest in the world, now the owner of Pokémon GO after its $3.5 billion acquisition of Niantic – to develop a game set within one of its IPs. Neither company specified which IP. The most logical candidate has always been The Witcher, given that CD Projekt had previously stated publicly it was considering mobile adaptations of both The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 universes. The leaked details, if accurate, appear to resolve that speculation.
There is a version of this that works. Scopely built Monopoly GO into one of the highest-grossing mobile games ever made, deploying a free-to-play loop that kept players returning through social mechanics and aggressive but carefully calibrated monetization. The question is whether those tools translate to a franchise whose identity is built on moral ambiguity, narrative consequence, and the sense that choices have weight. A Witcher game that asks you to spend four dollars to unlock a new Sign feels incongruent with the world Andrzej Sapkowski wrote. Whether Scopely and CD Projekt have found a monetization model that respects the IP is the central unknown – and it won’t be answerable until the game is shown publicly.
The leaks also raise a question about CD Projekt’s internal pipeline. The studio is simultaneously developing The Witcher 4, a remake of the original 2007 game, and a new Witcher 3 expansion called Songs of the Past, now slipped to 2027. Separately, the multiplayer title Project Sirius – announced in 2022, rebooted in 2023, and now folded in after The Molasses Flood studio merged with the publisher last year – is still in development. A fifth Witcher-adjacent project, if the MP1st report is accurate, would mean CD Projekt is running four concurrent productions under the same franchise banner. The studio has spent the years since Cyberpunk 2077’s troubled 2020 launch rebuilding its reputation for disciplined development. That reputation has limits.
The distinction between this leaked title and Project Sirius appears to hinge on platform and structure. Sirius is expected to include a solo mode and ship for consoles as well as PC. The game described in MP1st’s report targets only PC and mobile, carries a free-to-play model, and has no single-player component mentioned. They may share creative DNA – both set in The Witcher universe, both involving cooperative gameplay – but they appear to be different products aimed at different audiences. What neither has shown, as of today, is a release date or a trailer.
CD Projekt’s recent gaming calendar has been crowded with announcements worth tracking. The studio headlined last week’s Summer Game Fest 2026, where several major reveals reshaped expectations across the industry. Meanwhile, Scopely has been navigating its own moment of transition; just this week the company drew attention for its handling of the Pokémon GO Explorer Gadget beta, a test it has conducted in near-total silence. That silence is consistent with how the company appears to be managing the CD Projekt partnership: officially, nothing has been said.
The last detail in the MP1st report is perhaps the most telling. The game is set in 1230 – a year the franchise has never visited in playable form. That specificity suggests a design team that has thought carefully about where to plant a flag that doesn’t require players to mourn the absence of Geralt. The open question is whether a Witcher game without Geralt is still a Witcher game, or whether it’s something new wearing a familiar name. CD Projekt, for now, isn’t saying.
Wccftech rated the MP1st report 75% probable based on source quality, corroboration, technical plausibility, and timeline consistency – a credible but unconfirmed leak. Neither CD Projekt Red nor Scopely has yet commented.
