- The Witcher 3: Wild HuntThe third expansion, songs from the past, it was supposed to be released this year
- CD Projekt Red decided that a 2027 release would “achieve the best possible outcome from a consumer point of view.”
- The studio also confirmed that there will be some sort of demo at Gamescom 2026.
As the rumors stated, The Witcher 3: Wild HuntThe third expansion, songs from the pastwas originally scheduled to release this year before being pushed back to 2027.
This is according to CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski, who revealed on the company’s latest financial results call (via Eurogamer) that the team “had a moment where our plans for songs from the past would be released this year,” but decided with the development team that “the game will be released in 2027 to achieve the best possible outcome from a consumer point of view, which in the end, frankly, is the only thing that really matters.”
“For several quarters we have announced that in our project portfolio there are some unannounced projects that are in an advanced stage of production,” added CFO Piotr Nielubowicz. “One of them is the expansion that is being co-developed by Fool’s Theory. Our first plans assumed that songs from the past could be released this year; however, we decided that it will be released in 2027.”
Although unfortunately we will not play Songs of the CountryThis year, CDPR has confirmed that the expansion will be at Gamescom 2026 in August. However, there will not be a hands-on demonstration in the showroom, but rather a presentation like the ones above. witcher 3 expansions.
“I can’t really speak to the details, but what I would suggest is that historically when we were showing sorcerer In games, we usually did a sort of guided demo experience, so you should probably think more along those lines rather than a hands-on experience,” Nowakowski explained.
“These are big games, very big RPG experiences, and having a five-minute session with a game like that really wouldn’t give you much. So we’re more likely to follow what we’ve been doing in the past with The Witcher 3 or, for that matter, with cyberpunk when we were announcing it too.”
They were also asked about the scale of Songs of the Past and whether it will be hearts of stone and blood and wineand Nowakowski said that “when it comes to scope,” it’s like the latter, “but this is super subjective.”
“It really depends on how you’re going to play, what your strategy is,” he said. “But we’re definitely doing a proper big expansion, that’s the message I would send.”
On the subject of The witcher 4Nowakowski referred to Songs of the Past as a “prologue”, but did not specify whether the expansion would be a prelude to the next game or its own standalone story to The Witcher 3.
“First of all, we wanted to offer a great experience to the fans: a really cool expansion that will make people happy to be able to return to The Witcher 3 environment,” Nowakoski said. “But of course, indirectly, yes, it’s a reminder [about the franchise]. It is, in a way, a prologue, although it is not textually so. [that] “It’s a prologue to the real Witcher 4.”
He also agreed that the expansion could be seen as a way to keep some talk in The Witcher 3but said “those are all additional side effects.”
“The main thing from our perspective is to really offer a high-quality, fun experience to current fans of the witcher“Nowakoski added.
songs from the past will arrive sooner The Witcher 4.WWhen asked if the next game would also receive expansions, the CFO reiterated the company’s “ambitious” plans to release three Witcher games over a six-year period, but admitted that “it would be difficult, to be very honest, for us to add an expansion to the next trilogy – that’s where we are here and now with this particular issue.”
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