The Witcher 3 maker CD Projekt has a secret new enlargement for its beloved role-playing sport within the works, numerous reviews have steered.
Phrase that the studio was planning extra content material for its 2015 blockbuster initially dates again to a report printed on-line final summer time, by which Polish video games trade insider Borys Nieśpielak first spilled particulars of the supposed venture.
On the time, Nieśpielak claimed that improvement was being dealt with by Idiot’s Principle — the studio that CD Projekt has additionally tasked with remaking The Witcher 1. As we speak, in a report by Eurogamer, Nieśpielak doubled down on his preliminary declare and pointed to a current trace by CD Projekt itself that the content material was quietly within the works.
“Given our present progress, there’s a likelihood that new content material hinted upon in current calls and reviews may even see launch within the coming 12 months,” CD Projekt chief monetary officer Piotr Nielubowicz stated within the firm’s newest monetary report, printed in November 2025. With out naming the content material, Nielubowicz went on to counsel that it might have “an influence” on the corporate’s upcoming outcomes — probably suggesting it might arrive comparatively quickly, and be comparatively meaninful in scope.
This is not the one official point out of an unnamed venture, both. In a follow-up investor name following the aforementioned outcomes, joint studio CEO Michał Nowakowski additionally made point out of an “different venture” that Idiot’s Principle was engaged on, in the identical breath as mentioning its The Witcher 1 remake and help for the upcoming The Witcher 4.
Yet one more whisper of the venture got here simply earlier than the tip of final 12 months from Polish analyst Mateusz Chrzanowski, who stated he anticipated “the following paid add-on (DLC) for The Witcher 3 to be launched in Might 2026.” All of this factors to CD Projekt, through Idiot’s Principle, having one thing new for The Witcher 3 followers in only a few months’ time — an thrilling prospect, and one that will make some sense.
As “full manufacturing” on The Witcher 4 continues, CD Projekt has cautioned followers to not anticipate its launch in 2026, as the corporate plans an bold six-year roadmap by which it is going to additionally launch The Witcher 5 and The Witcher 6. Earlier than all of that, there is a window this 12 months for much more Witcher, and a contemporary slice of content material that would probably assist bridge the hole.
A brand new DLC seems like a sensible thought to reawaken lapsed curiosity forward of the sequence’ subsequent chapter, through additional content material offered to The Witcher 3’s current viewers of greater than 60 million gamers. This content material might be used as a motive to promote the sport anew, to carry contemporary followers to the decade-old role-player, and probably arrange plot factors to be expanded upon in The Witcher 4.
Lastly, in fact, it might provide followers one final oppurtunity to play as Geralt — earlier than the franchise’s subsequent trilogy focuses on Ciri. So, one final journey?
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