CD Projekt

CD Projekt is a Polish video game company headquartered in Warsaw. It was founded in May 1994 by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński, first as a distributor and translator of foreign games, and today it is best known for its development studio CD Projekt RED and the series The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077. The company is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, is part of the WIG20 index and employed about 1,100 people in 2026.

Features

• The Witcher series, based on novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt from 2015 as its best-known title.
• Cyberpunk 2077 from 2020, an open-world role-playing game based on the tabletop system Cyberpunk 2020.
• In-house game engine and tools developed by the studio.
• Studios in Warsaw and Wrocław and a publicly traded structure with founders as the largest shareholders.

Ownership and limits

No shareholder holds a majority: Marcin Iwiński is the largest with about 12.9 percent, followed by Michał Kiciński with about 10 percent. The digital store GOG, which CD Projekt founded in 2008, was sold to Kiciński in December 2025 and is listed separately in the PC game stores category. The company publishes few games, and its releases are years apart.