CD Projekt Red is currently at work on The Witcher 4, but the Polish studio may also have something planned for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Recent rumors have been floating around online of a new paid expansion for the action-RPG, which turned a decade old in May 2025. These claims first came from Polish leaker Borys Nieśpielak, who alleged months ago the add-on is being made by Fool’s Gold, the studio tasked with remaking the original Witcher game. Nieśpielak initially said to expect an announcement during last December’s Game Awards, which didn’t pan out. But he recently told Eurogamer of a comment made by CD Projekt’s chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz that may support his original reporting.
“There is a chance that new content hinted upon in recent calls and reports may see release in the coming year,” Nielubowicz said in CDP’s earnings call from November 2025. While vague, he indicated that content would have an impact on the company’s financial results and “increase the likelihood of achieving the earnings condition for the first stage of the incentive program.”
Adding further fuel to the fire, in mid-December after the Game Awards, Polish securities analyst Mateusz Chrzanowski predicted that CDPR will release the expansion in May 2026, which will then “kick off the actual marketing campaign for The Witcher 4.”
Before moving on to Cyberpunk 2077, CDPR supported The Witcher 3 with two big expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood & Wine. If CDPR is returning to it, it makes sense: the game’s been a consistent moneymaker over the years (particularly when the studio was rehabilitating Cyberpunk), and a current-gen version released back in 2022. This also wouldn’t be the first game to get an expansion laying groundwork for the sequel; before Borderlands 3 came out in 2019, Gearbox turned out to have one more expansion for Borderlands 2 up its sleeve that bridged those two games.
We’ll know in a couple months how true these rumors are—but whether they are or not, it’ll likely get people playing The Witcher 3 again before the Ciri-led sequel eventually rears its head.
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