The new Witcher game has multiplayer and its worlds build themselves TechRadar Skip to main content TechRadar is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's why you can trust us. The new Witcher game has multiplayer and its worlds build themselves By Callum Bains published 5 October 2022 Party up (Image credit: CD Projekt) Audio player loading… Multiplayer gameplay and procedurally generated environments will feature in the next Witcher game, currently codenamed Project Sirius. Although not The Witcher 4, Sirius is a spin-off entry in the Witcher series currently under development at CD Projekt Red subsidiary The Molasses Flood. Revealed in an investors' presentation (opens in new tab) yesterday, the game is currently in pre-production and pitched as "an innovative take on The Witcher Universe". On Twitter (opens in new tab), CD Projekt Red confirmed Sirius will include multiplayer elements on top of a single-player campaign spanning "quests and a story". There's no hint yet as to whether that will take the form of competitive multiplayer or online co-op. The Continent like you ve never seen it before (Image credit: CD Projekt) A couple of new job listings have given us more of an inkling into what witchering sorcery The Molasses Flood is cooking up. As spotted by GamesRadar (opens in new tab), they suggest the upcoming Witcher game will include procedurally generated levels – that is, environments that are created algorithmically rather than manually crafted. The lead level designer (opens in new tab) listing describes Sirius as a game in which "many environments will be procedurally generated". The senior level designer post (opens in new tab), meanwhile, calls for someone who can create levels that involve both hand-crafted and procedural elements, as well as level chunks that can be "recombined and arranged by a procedural system". The Molasses Flood is no stranger to procedural generation. It's best known for creating 2016 roguelike survival game The Flame in the Flood, in which you forage for resources and craft tools in a post-apocalyptic version of the US, while making your way down a procedurally generated river. Its 2020 co-op survival game Drake Hollow also featured a procedurally generated map, on which you'd build a settlement and rescue creatures. The studio was founded in 2014 by a group of developers who'd previously worked across the Bioshock, Halo, and Guitar Hero series. During Molasses Flood's acquisition last year, CD Projekt Red said it would work in close cooperation with the studio but the team would "keep their current identity and will not be merged with existing teams". Part of that identity appears to be a proficiency with procedural generation.Overwatch 2 launch plagued by long queues and DDoS attacks Callum BainsGaming News WriterCallum is TechRadar Gaming's News Writer. You'll find him whipping up stories about all the latest happenings in the gaming world, as well as penning the odd feature and review. Before coming to TechRadar, he wrote freelance for various sites, including Clash, The Telegraph, and Gamesindustry.biz, and worked as a Staff Writer at Wargamer. Strategy games and RPGs are his bread and butter, but he'll eat anything that spins a captivating narrative. He also loves tabletop games, and will happily chew your ear off about TTRPGs and board games. See more Gaming news TechRadar Newsletter Sign up to get breaking news, reviews, opinion, analysis and more, plus the hottest tech deals! Thank you for signing up to TechRadar. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. MOST POPULARMOST SHARED1You may not have to sell a body part to afford the Nvidia RTX 4090 after all2My days as a helpful meat shield are over, thanks to the Killer Klown horror game3I tried the weirdest-looking Bluetooth speaker in the world, and I utterly adore it4It looks like Fallout's spiritual successor is getting a PS5 remaster5One of the world's most popular programming languages is coming to Linux1We finally know what 'Wi-Fi' stands for - and it's not what you think2Best laptops for designers and coders 3The iPhone 14 Pro is made of the wrong stuff; the Pixel 7 proves that to me4Miofive 4K Dash Cam review5Logitech's latest webcam and headset want to relieve your work day frustrations Technology Magazines (opens in new tab)● (opens in new tab)The best tech tutorials and in-depth reviewsFrom$12.99 (opens in new tab)View (opens in new tab)