Plot twist nobody saw coming: CD Projekt Red has announced a brand new expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a game from 2015 - yes, the same year Fallout 4 dropped and everyone lost their minds. According to Game Informer, the expansion is called Songs of the Past, stars everyone's favourite grumpy silver-haired monster slayer Geralt of Rivia, and is set to launch in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
Let that sink in. Witcher 3 will be twelve years old by the time this DLC drops. Your character saves may be older than some people's gaming PCs at this point.
What do we actually know?
Brutally honest answer: not much. CDPR has revealed the title, the key art, and essentially the vibe - which is apparently "trust us, bro." No gameplay details, no story synopsis, no word count on the script. Just vibes and a very pretty header image.
The name Songs of the Past is doing a lot of heavy lifting narratively. It sounds like the kind of expansion that could be a nostalgic, lore-drenched adventure - perhaps something touching on Geralt's history or the world of the Witchers before everything went sideways. Pure speculation on our part, but come on, the title is begging for it.
Why is this happening?
While CDPR is deep in development on The Witcher IV - which trades Geralt for Ciri as the lead - it seems the studio isn't ready to fully unplug the life support on the White Wolf just yet. Returning to Witcher 3 rather than bridging into the new game's universe is a bold, if somewhat chaotic, move. It also raises the very real question: who is this for, exactly? The answer is obviously everyone, because Geralt could release a farming simulator and it would sell five million copies.
Songs of the Past is technically positioned alongside the next-gen versions of Witcher 3 and the existing Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone expansions - so if you've been sleeping on those, now is probably the time to finally load up that save file gathering digital dust in your library.
No firm release window beyond "2027" has been given. We'll be waiting, controller in hand, pacing like Geralt before a contract.
