On the surface, it may seem like the ambitious sci-fi title Cyberpunk 2077 and the beloved Witcher fantasy franchise couldn't be further apart from each other. But they're more intertwined than players might think, and not merely because they share the same developer. CD Projekt Red, the Polish video game developer and publisher, made a name for itself by bringing the popular Witcher novel series by author Andrzej Sapkowski to gamers everywhere, and it generated a lot of goodwill in the process.