We first reported on rumors of a new Witcher 3 DLC again on the tail finish of 2025, after a Polish monetary analyst and a recognized leaker mentioned individually {that a} shock new enlargement is within the works. And whereas that DLC stays firmly within the realm of hopes and goals for now, with a brand new yr now upon us I’m right here to inform you that the muse for that rumor has grown considerably stronger.
There are two large causes for this. The primary comes from IGN Poland, which mentioned earlier this week (Google translated) that it first heard about this new enlargement, “from somebody who has repeatedly supplied us with dependable insider data,” years in the past. IGN Poland mentioned it did not publish something about it on the time as a result of the knowledge all got here from a single supply (that is how precise journalism works), however in mild of those new rumors it is opted to make the story public.
IGN Poland mentioned its supply on the time claimed the brand new enlargement would take gamers to the far-off desert of Zerrikania, which is talked about in passing at just a few factors in The Witcher video games. Zerrikania can be totally different sufficient from The Witcher kingdoms we already know that it might be a spot the place, as an example, Ciri may efficiently endure the Trial of the Grasses, which is usually believed to kill women who try it—though The Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski clarified in 2025 that he by no means mentioned in his books that girls cannot survive the method and, in advantageous Sapkowski trend, he would not care both manner.
Even so, given the problem of creating new witchers (the method has been largely misplaced, and even when it was in lively use it was extremely harmful for candidates, killing seven out of 10 potentials), having Ciri undergo a same-but-different mutation course of in a really distant, extra superior realm makes affordable narrative sense.
The second purpose the rumor feels a minimum of considerably grounded is much extra sensible, and has nothing to do with the sport. As an alternative, it is all about CD Projekt itself. It’s possible you’ll recall that when CD Projekt mentioned The Witcher 4 will not be out till 2027 on the soonest, it did so utilizing some archaic corpo-financial communicate throughout an buyers name: “The sport won’t be launched inside the time-frame of the primary goal for the motivation program which ends thirty first of December.”
CD Projekt mentioned throughout that very same name, in March 2025, that it nonetheless wanted to generate a little bit greater than 1 billion Polish zloty (round $277 million) by the top of 2026 as a way to obtain that incentive program goal—one thing one investor on the decision famous can be “extraordinarily troublesome” with out releasing any new merchandise.
Noble Securities analyst Mateusz Chrzanowski, who spurred our December 2025 report on the DLC rumor, informed Eurogamer that CD Projekt continues to be roughly PLN700 million in need of its objective, with simply 5 monetary quarters remaining: “This means the necessity for one thing considerably bigger than simply one other replace or a model for a distinct segment platform.”
One thing like, as an example, a shock Witcher 3 DLC. Chrzanowski predicted {that a} new enlargement would ring up roughly $330 million in gross sales via 2026, translating to just about PLN1.2 billion, placing it nicely over the road CD Projekt must cross as a way to make much more cash for its bosses.
To repeat what I mentioned in December, all of that and 20 bucks will get you a duplicate of the good Witcher 3 enlargement Blood and Wine (which you actually ought to play if you have not already): CD Projekt has remained stubbornly closed-mouthed about the entire thing, and we haven’t any useful leaks from, say, PEGI or Ubisoft that successfully confirms it. However the sheer weight of the claims are beginning to add up. I can not say that I imagine simply but, however I wish to.
