The Witcher 3 maker CD Projekt has a secret new enlargement for its liked role-playing sport within the works, more than a few studies have steered.
Phrase that the studio used to be making plans extra content material for its 2015 blockbuster initially dates again to a file revealed on-line closing summer season, wherein Polish video games trade insider Borys Nieśpielak first spilled main points of the intended venture.
On the time, Nieśpielak claimed that construction used to be being treated by way of Idiot’s Principle — the studio that CD Projekt has additionally tasked with remaking The Witcher 1. Lately, in a file by way of Eurogamer, Nieśpielak doubled down on his preliminary declare and pointed to a contemporary trace by way of CD Projekt itself that the content material used to be quietly within the works.
“Given our present development, there’s a probability that new content material hinted upon in contemporary calls and studies would possibly see unencumber within the coming 12 months,” CD Projekt leader monetary officer Piotr Nielubowicz mentioned within the corporate’s newest monetary file, revealed in November 2025. With out naming the content material, Nielubowicz went on to indicate that it might have “an affect” at the corporate’s upcoming effects — doubtlessly suggesting it might arrive slightly quickly, and be slightly meaninful in scope.
This is not the one professional point out of an unnamed venture, both. In a follow-up investor name following the aforementioned effects, joint studio CEO Michał Nowakowski additionally made point out of an “different venture” that Idiot’s Principle used to be running on, in the similar breath as citing its The Witcher 1 remake and enhance for the impending The Witcher 4.
But every other whisper of the venture got here simply prior to the tip of closing 12 months from Polish analyst Mateusz Chrzanowski, who mentioned he anticipated “the following paid add-on (DLC) for The Witcher 3 to be launched in Might 2026.” All of this issues to CD Projekt, by the use of Idiot’s Principle, having one thing new for The Witcher 3 lovers in only a few months’ time — a thrilling prospect, and one that will make some sense.
As “complete manufacturing” on The Witcher 4 continues, CD Projekt has cautioned lovers to not be expecting its release in 2026, as the corporate plans an bold six-year roadmap wherein it’s going to additionally release The Witcher 5 and The Witcher 6. Sooner than all of that, there is a window this 12 months for much more Witcher, and a contemporary slice of content material that would doubtlessly lend a hand bridge the distance.
A brand new DLC appears like a sensible concept to reawaken lapsed hobby forward of the collection’ subsequent bankruptcy, by the use of further content material offered to The Witcher 3’s current target market of greater than 60 million gamers. This content material may well be used as a explanation why to promote the sport anew, to convey contemporary lovers to the decade-old role-player, and doubtlessly arrange plot issues to be expanded upon in The Witcher 4.
In spite of everything, in fact, it might be offering lovers one closing oppurtunity to play as Geralt — prior to the franchise’s subsequent trilogy makes a speciality of Ciri. So, one closing journey?
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