- The Witcher 3: Wild Huntthird extension, Songs from the past, was to be launched this year
- CD Projekt Red decided that a 2027 release would “achieve the best possible result from a consumer point of view”
- The studio also confirmed that a demo of some sort will be at Gamescom 2026
As the rumors claimed, The Witcher 3: Wild Huntthird extension, Songs from the pastwas originally scheduled to launch this year before being pushed to 2027.
That’s according to CD Projekt Red co-CEO Michał Nowakowski, who revealed in the company’s latest financial earnings 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 launch in 2027 to achieve the best possible result from a consumer point of view, which in the end, frankly, is all that really matters.”
“For several quarters, we have disclosed that our pipeline includes some unannounced projects that are in an advanced production stage,” added CFO Piotr Nielubowicz. “One of them is the expansion co-developed by Fool’s Theory. Our early plans assumed that Songs from the past could be published this year; however, we decided that it will be launched in 2027.”
Although unfortunately we are not playing Songs of PasCDPR has confirmed this year that the expansion will be at Gamescom 2026 in August. However, there will not be a hands-on demo on the exhibition floor, but rather a presentation as before Witcher 3 extensions.
“I can’t really talk through the details, but what I will suggest is it’s historic when we showed Witcher games, we typically did a guided demo experience, so probably you should 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 wouldn’t give you much. So it’s more likely that we’ll follow the lead of what we’ve done in the past with The Witcher 3 or for that matter with Cyberpunk when we announced it too.”
They were also asked about the extent of Songs from the past and whether it will be Hearts of stone and Blood and Winewith Nowakowski saying that “when it comes to scale,” it’s like the latter, “but this is super-subjective.”
“It really depends on how you want to play — what’s your through game,” he said. “But we’re definitely doing a pretty big expansion, is the message I wanted to send out there.”
About the subject The Witcher 4Nowakowski referenced Songs from the past as a “prologue”, but did not specify whether the expansion would be a prelude to the upcoming game, or its own standalone story for The Witcher 3.
“First and foremost, we wanted to deliver a really great experience for the fans – a really cool expansion that will make people happy that they can come back to The Witcher 3 setting,” Nowakoski said. “But of course indirectly, yes, it’s a reminder [about the franchise]. It’s kind of a prologue, even if it’s not a prologue in a literal way [that] it is a prologue to the actual Witcher 4.”
He also agreed that the expansion could be seen as a way to maintain some conversation The Witcher 3but said, “all these are additional side effects.”
“The core from our perspective is really to deliver a fun, high-quality experience to the existing fans of The Witcher“, Nowakowski added.
Songs from the past comes before The Witcher 4. When asked if the upcoming game would also receive expansions, the joint CEO reiterated the company’s “ambitious” plans to release three Witcher games within a six-year period, but admitted, “it would be difficult, to be very honest, for us to add an expansion to the upcoming trilogy – that’s where we are right now with this particular issue.”
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