Who owns The Witcher?
The Witcher is owned by CD PROJEKT RED (Poland, WSE: CDR).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: CD PROJEKT RED — History, CD PROJEKT RED S.A. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- CD PROJEKT RED S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇵🇱 Poland, Warsaw
- Origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland, Warsaw
- Founded
- 2007
- Category
- Internet & digital › Platforms & devices › Video games
- Parent ticker
- WSE: CDR
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About The Witcher
The Witcher is the role-playing game series CD PROJEKT RED built from Andrzej Sapkowski's novels, having found that the franchise exploitation and game development rights were for sale and begun work in September 2003. The first game arrived on 26 October 2007 on a budget of nearly 20 million zloty, then the most expensive Polish game ever made. The third instalment, Wild Hunt, has sold over 65 million copies, a remastered edition followed in September 2026, and a fourth game is scheduled for 2028.
Ownership timeline of The Witcher
- Current owner CD PROJEKT RED [1] reported
Where The Witcher sits in CD PROJEKT RED
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Open the full CD PROJEKT RED ownership tree →
See the full CD PROJEKT RED brand portfolio (3) →
Other brands owned by CD PROJEKT RED
CD PROJEKT RED controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)
- GWENT: The Witcher Card Game (2018)
Other brands in video games, and who owns them
The 69 brands in video games on Brandtree belong to 18 owners. The largest is Take-Two, with 7; CD PROJEKT RED has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Fantasy Westward Journey | NetEase | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| 2K | Take-Two | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Apex Legends | EA | 🇺🇸 United States |
| eFootball | Konami | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Bingo Blitz | Playtika | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| Mega Man | Capcom | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Animal Crossing | Nintendo | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Football Manager | Sega Sammy | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: CD PROJEKT RED
CD PROJEKT RED is a publicly listed company headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, founded in 1994. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as WSE: CDR.
CD PROJEKT RED is the Polish video game developer and publisher behind The Witcher games and Cyberpunk 2077. It began in 1994 as a games importer set up by two school friends, Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński, who sold CD-ROMs at a Warsaw computer bazaar, and it opened its own development studio in 2002. Listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the WIG20 index, it reported 867 million zloty of consolidated sales and 594 million zloty of net profit in 2025, and had sold more than 120 million copies of its games by the end of that year. It sold GOG, the DRM-free games store it had run for over seventeen years, to Michał Kiciński in a deal announced on 29 December 2025, and the parent company formally took the name CD PROJEKT RED S.A. on 10 August 2026.
CD PROJEKT RED: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇵🇱 The Witcher and other Polish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 91 brands that began in Poland. 18 of them (20%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; The Witcher is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of The Witcher?
The parent company of The Witcher is CD PROJEKT RED, a publicly listed company headquartered in Poland.
Is The Witcher Polish?
Yes. The Witcher originated in Poland in 2007 and its owner, CD PROJEKT RED, is also headquartered in Poland.
Is The Witcher still owned by CD PROJEKT RED?
Yes. As of 25 September 2026, The Witcher is still owned by CD PROJEKT RED. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] CD PROJEKT RED — History — CD PROJEKT RED S.A., Official document; retrieved 25 September 2026.
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