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The Molasses Flood, the CD Projekt Red-owned studio behind games like The Flame in the Flood, has fully merged with CD Projekt Red proper, losing its studio identity as it continues work on a multiplayer The Witcher game.

"We want to let you know that on April 1, 2025, The Molasses Flood LLC (“TMF”) merged with CD PROJEKT RED Inc. (“CDPR Inc.”), a company being a part of the CD PROJEKT Group," a statement on the studio's website reads. "As a result of the merger TMF, in its former legal state (of a separate legal entity) ceased its operations, while CDPR Inc. assumed the rights and obligations of TMF. The merger will not affect the availability or distribution of The Flame in The Flood and Drake Hollow video games, which will continue to be published by CD PROJEKT Group."

Studio co-founder Damian Isla is also leaving the studio, calling it "the end of the era" in a LinkedIn post that simultaneously argues that "this is a good and healthy thing for the studio, and it was long-expected." The Molasses Flood was first formed as an independent studio in 2014. In the years that followed, it released the roguelike survival game The Flame in the Flood and the cooperative creature-raising action game Drake Hollow.

In 2021, CD Projekt Red acquired the studio, and we eventually learned that this happened because The Molasses Flood was working on a multiplayer The Witcher game currently referred to as Project Sirius. The studio experienced layoffs in 2023 and is now being fully merged into the company that acquired it three years ago.

"It breaks down some organizational barriers, and better integrates the TMF team with the rest of the amazing CDPR org," Isla explains in his LinkedIn post. "Overall, it shows a very bright future for Project Sirius (aka "the multiplayer Witcher game," of which I was the Design Director for three years). It's going to be an amazing game, one for the books, and I cannot wait until the rest of the world learns about what we've been working on."

Project Sirius has not yet been publicly unveiled and is separate from The Witcher 4. The latter is the first in a new trilogy, developed using Unreal Engine rather than CD Projekt Red's previous and proprietary engine