CD Projekt Red is sending Geralt back to The Witcher 3. The studio has announced Songs of the Past, a third expansion for Wild Hunt coming in 2027 to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
The news pulls a decade-old RPG back into the center of the conversation. The Witcher 3 expansion puts players on the Path with Geralt of Rivia again, with Fool’s Theory co-developing alongside the studio.
CD Projekt Red says more details are coming in late summer 2026, so the big questions remain open. Scope, price, and the exact release window are still missing.
Why pull Geralt back now
The Witcher 3 hardly needs a rescue job. CD Projekt Red says the game has sold over 60 million copies since 2015 and collected more than 250 Game of the Year awards among 1,000 total industry awards.
That history raises the bar for Songs of the Past. Players won’t treat it like a stray side quest bolted onto an old favorite. They’ll measure it against Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, the expansions that helped make Wild Hunt feel unusually complete.
How much is really new
Fool’s Theory gives the project a useful credibility boost. CD Projekt Red says the studio includes industry veterans who worked on The Witcher 3, which should ease some concerns about handing a new Geralt story to an outside co-developer.
The reveal also arrived with a little mess around it. CD Projekt reportedly made moves after a Red Launcher leak and a same-day trademark filing for Songs of the Past, which makes the announcement feel less staged than planned.
Where does this leave players
The Ciri factor hangs over all of this. The Witcher 4 is supposedly a shift toward Ciri, which gives Geralt’s new expansion a sharper edge for fans who still see him as the series’ defining face.
For now, the practical move is to wait for specifics before treating Songs of the Past like a full-scale farewell. Geralt is coming back, but the size of the hunt is still unknown. Late summer 2026 is the date to watch.
