12 years after the launch of CD Projekt Red’s RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the game is getting a surprise third expansion, Songs of the Past, which is due out sometime in 2027.
Announced via a post on the game’s official website, Songs of the Past will mark the game’s next expansion following 2015’s Hearts of Stone and 2016’s Blood and Wine. CD Projekt Red will be co-developing the expansion alongside Fool’s Theory, a team made up of “industry veterans” who worked on The Witcher 3, with more details on Songs of the Past set to arrive in late Summer 2026.
While news of the announcement is sure to stir up excitement for the now 11-year-old game, this huge gap in time also means that gaming hardware has changed drastically since the RPG’s release, resulting in the studio making some changes to the recommended PC specifications for both The Witcher 3 and its new DLC, some of which haven’t sat well with the community.
As seen on the game’s support page, the minimum PC requirements for The Witcher 3 will be changed slightly from its next update onwards, and while most of the changes aren’t too drastic, the game now recommends an SSD instead of the older generation hard drives, which might be a tough ask for those who have yet to upgrade their rigs.
More notably, however, is the game’s shift towards making Windows 11 a requirement, which might understandably be an issue for users running on an older machine. The studio later clarified that this change didn’t mean that users still running on earlier OS versions wouldn’t be able to play the game, but that the game wouldn’t be tested on Windows 10 moving forward, which could result in unexpected bugs. To this end, CD Projekt Red also added that players will still be able to revert to an older version of The Witcher 3 at any point if they experience any game-breaking issues.
Additionally, The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past will also be skipping previous-generation consoles, too, and is expected to launch on the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC sometime in 2027.
Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise “duds” like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3. He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying.
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