The Witcher 3 Officializes Its Songs Of The Past DLC Before The Witcher 4 Launch

The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, developed and published by CD Projekt RED and originally released on May 19, 2015 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, then re-released as a next-gen version on December 14, 2022 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, will therefore receive its third DLC named Songs of the Past sometime in 2027. The new expansion will let players step back into the role of Geralt of Rivia for a brand new adventure whose details remain deliberately under wraps until late summer 2026.

Songs of the Past will be exclusively available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with no version planned for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch or Switch 2. The Polish studio also announced a technical update to the base game that will make Windows 11 mandatory and drop support for mechanical hard drives, in order to guarantee optimal performance for the new content. This confirmation validates the rumor of a Witcher 3 DLC expected in 2026 that we covered last January, with a one-year delayed schedule

The timing of this announcement is no accident. CD Projekt RED has been working in parallel on The Witcher 4 since 2022, with the first technical demo on Unreal Engine 5.6 presented at Unreal Fest 2025 featuring Ciri as the new protagonist in the unreleased region of Kovir. Songs of the Past therefore appears as the ideal narrative bridge to keep fans engaged before the 4th installment, while maintaining media attention on the franchise during development.

The co-development choice is also strategic. CD Projekt RED teams up with Fool’s Theory, a studio composed of industry veterans who previously worked on The Witcher 3. The same studio is also developing the remake of The Witcher 1 announced in 2024, a sign of CDPR‘s global strategy to maintain the entire saga ecosystem. With more than 60 million copies sold since 2015 and over 250 Game of the Year awards to its credit, The Witcher 3 confirms its status as a open-world RPG monument capable of generating official content 12 years after release.