What’s with The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past?

The Witcher 3 gets new expansion Songs of the Past

CD Projekt Red has officially announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s long-awaited third expansion, Songs of the Past—arriving more than a decade after the base game and roughly ten years after the earlier expansion Blood and Wine. The announcement re-establishes Geralt’s presence again as the focus of the next major piece of post-launch content.

The expansion’s existence had been widely rumored for some time, and the project’s path to confirmation included an accidental leak on CD Projekt Red’s own storefront before the studio formally confirmed it was working on the new DLC.

Timing and development

• The DLC is positioned as coming in 2027.
• It’s co-developed alongside Fool’s Theory.
• The announcement clarifies that the expansion is not coming to Switch.

Why it matters for players

A new expansion this far into The Witcher 3’s lifecycle is significant for two reasons. First, it gives returning players a new narrative and world hook after years of waiting since the previous expansion. Second, it signals CD Projekt Red is still investing in updating and maintaining the game’s long-tail ecosystem rather than treating it as fully complete.

There’s also a knock-on effects angle for PC players: CD Projekt Red has updated minimum system requirements ahead of Songs of the Past, most notably ending support for HDDs and Windows 10, pushing players toward SSDs and Windows 11.

Overall, Songs of the Past is a rare late-stage “big swing” for a modern RPG—one that reframes the game’s timeline and brings Wild Hunt back into the active conversation for a new round of players and hardware upgrades.