The Molasses Flood, the CD Projekt Red-owned studio behind video games like The Flame within the Flood, has totally merged with CD Projekt Red correct, shedding its studio id because it continues work on a multiplayer The Witcher recreation.
“We wish to let you understand that on April 1, 2025, The Molasses Flood LLC (“TMF”) merged with CD PROJEKT RED Inc. (“CDPR Inc.”), an organization being part of the CD PROJEKT Group,” an announcement on the studio’s web site reads. “On account of the merger TMF, in its former authorized state (of a separate authorized entity) ceased its operations, whereas CDPR Inc. assumed the rights and obligations of TMF. The merger is not going to have an effect on the supply or distribution of The Flame in The Flood and Drake Hole video video games, which can proceed to be printed by CD PROJEKT Group.”
Studio co-founder Damian Isla can also be leaving the studio, calling it “the top of the period” in a LinkedIn post that concurrently argues that “this can be a good and wholesome factor for the studio, and it was long-expected.” The Molasses Flood was first fashioned as an impartial studio in 2014. Within the years that adopted, it launched the roguelike survival recreation The Flame within the Flood and the cooperative creature-raising motion recreation Drake Hole.
In 2021, CD Projekt Red acquired the studio, and we finally realized that this occurred as a result of The Molasses Flood was engaged on a multiplayer The Witcher recreation presently known as Venture Sirius. The studio skilled layoffs in 2023 and is now being totally merged into the corporate that acquired it three years in the past.
“It breaks down some organizational obstacles, and higher integrates the TMF crew with the remainder of the wonderful CDPR org,” Isla explains in his LinkedIn publish. “Total, it reveals a really vibrant future for Venture Sirius (aka “the multiplayer Witcher recreation,” of which I used to be the Design Director for 3 years). It is going to be an incredible recreation, one for the books, and I can not wait till the remainder of the world learns about what we have been engaged on.”
Venture Sirius has not but been publicly unveiled and is separate from The Witcher 4. The latter is the primary in a brand new trilogy, developed utilizing Unreal Engine somewhat than CD Projekt Red’s earlier and proprietary engine