For almost a year, rumors about a brand new Witcher 3 expansion had been floating around online. At first, most fans would chalk it up to wishful thinking. The game came out in 2015, after all. Single-player games don’t ever really get full story expansions 12 years later. But these rumors came from some trusted leakers and sources in the industry, which lent quite some weight to it.
And now, it’s official. CD Projekt Red has announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past, a brand new story expansion arriving in 2027 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. It is being co-developed with Fool’s Theory, who are also working on a remake of the first Witcher game.
The Witcher 3’s Songs of the Past DLC could end up being a very important story expansion
Medallion's humming... that can only mean one thing! It's time to announce The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past! ⚔️
— The Witcher (@thewitcher) May 27, 2026
This brand new expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will take you to the Path with Geralt of Rivia once more. It’s being co-developed with @Fools_Theory… pic.twitter.com/rrcPXppgdc
Back in mid-2025, Polish insiders and analysts started quietly talking about CD Projekt returning to The Witcher 3 for one more expansion. At the time, it sounded unlikely enough that many fans ignored it.
The biggest question right now is where the expansion actually takes place (if it introduces a brand new region, at all). But given the speculated size and pricing of the DLC, which many insiders have been confident about, it’s likely that it will introduce a brand new region, similar to Toussaint in the Blood and Wine expansion, rather than just being a story DLC like Hearts of Stone.
There’s also quite a lot of speculation that this expansion could directly bridge into The Witcher 4. CD Projekt has already confirmed that Ciri will take center stage in the next mainline game, so Songs of the Past may end up functioning as Geralt’s final major chapter before the series fully shifts focus to Ciri.
The timing makes a lot of sense. The Witcher 4 still sounds years away. Some analysts now think it might be pushed into 2028 territory.
What makes this rather interesting is how unusual it is for the gaming industry. The last time something like this happened was with Borderlands 2, which received a free story expansion in 2019 (seven years after release) that served as a link between that game and Borderlands 3. It looks like this new DLC is aiming to do something similar.
Big-budget AAA games can now take six to eight years between entries, and some even longer. So seeing a studio return to a beloved game over a decade later with a real story expansion sets a good precedent. Other studios can do the same in order to support non-live-service, single-player games for longer.
Admittedly, this is not something every game can manage to do. The Witcher 3 has sold over 60 million copies and never really disappeared from conversation, thanks to mod support, next-gen update in 2022, the Netflix adaptation, and, of course, by being one of the greatest and liveliest RPGs ever made.
More details are set to be revealed this year.
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