The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Songs of the Past might be revealed at gamescom 2026 throughout Opening Evening Reside, CD Projekt has introduced.
Songs of the Past is the third growth for CD Projekt’s fantasy masterpiece, and is due out in 2027 — 12 years after the authentic recreation got here out and 11 years after the much-loved second growth, Blood and Wine.
CD Projekt stated it’s co-developing the growth with Idiot’s Idea, a crew comprising “trade veterans” who labored on The Witcher 3. Right here’s what we all know to date.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past first particulars:
- Songs of the Past is a 3rd growth coming to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- It should launch in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC
- CD Projekt Purple is co-developing Songs of the Past with Idiot’s Idea
- Songs of the Past will return gamers to the position of legendary monster slayer Geralt of Rivia for a model new journey when it launches in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC.
CD Projekt has recommended Songs of the Past will assist set the stage for the upcoming The Witcher 4. Whereas telling a standalone story starring Geralt set after the occasions of The Witcher 3, the new journey may even act as a prologue of kinds to The Witcher 4, in keeping with the firm’s joint CEO Michał Nowakowski.
Talking to traders in Might, Nowakowski was questioned on how the growth is being positioned in the franchise, why it would launch in 2027 after beforehand being anticipated this 12 months, and whether or not any of CD Projekt’s new trilogy of The Witcher video games may even obtain expansions, as The Witcher 3 has.
“At the start, we actually needed to ship an incredible expertise to the followers, a very cool growth that is going to make folks joyful that they will come again to The Witcher 3 setting,” Nowakowski stated, discussing why Songs of the Past was being made in the first place.
“After all, not directly, sure, it’s a reminder [of the franchise for fans]. It’s, in a method, a prologue, though it isn’t a prologue in a verbatim method of [being] a prologue for the precise The Witcher 4. Sure, you’ll be able to have a look at it as it is a solution to preserve sure chatter on The Witcher 3. All of these are negative effects, extra negative effects. The core factor for us, from our perspective, is de facto delivering a high-quality, enjoyable expertise to the present followers of The Witcher.”
“We had a second the place our plans assumed that Songs of the Past could be launched this 12 months,” Nowakowski stated, when questioned why the growth was launching later than anticipated. “We determined along with the improvement crew, that the recreation might be launching in 2027, to be trustworthy, to attain the very best consequence from the client standpoint, which in the finish, frankly talking, is the solely final factor that actually issues.”
Throughout a livestream geared toward The Witcher followers, CD Projekt gave a number of additional hints on the growth’s focus, teasing the significance of Geralt’s new third sword — as glimpsed in a current piece of paintings launched to have a good time a springtime pageant. Geralt’s bard buddy Dandelion can also be current.
“We can’t give an excessive amount of away proper now as a result of we would like you to expertise it as you play,” senior neighborhood and social media supervisor Laura Beitzel teased throughout the 10th anniversary livestream designed to have a good time Blood and Wine.
“However as a number of eagle-eyed folks have already seen over the previous 24 hours, there are some hints ready for you on an important night in Witcher lore, Belleteyn Evening, in our Belleteyn celebration that we shared a number of weeks in the past. So… hold on the lookout for clues.”
Right here, Beitzel is referencing a bit of paintings and a poem it posted on social media in April. It exhibits Geralt resting by a bonfire as Dandelion performs the lute whereas villagers dance. Extra importantly, although, it exhibits Geralt with a mysterious new sword — the similar sword he is additionally holding in Songs of the Past’s reveal paintings, which sports activities an uncommon ornate curved crossguard.
“So sure, Geralt is holding a sword,” CD Projekt’s Amelia Korzycka continued, referencing Songs of the Past’s key paintings. “It’s a essential sword for the story and you’re going to get to understand it when the recreation comes out. So a number of extra streams earlier than that when [we] reveal it.”
Beitzel additionally mentioned the measurement of the growth. “Songs of the Past might be aligned with what you are aware of in Blood and Wine, and what you’ve got come to expertise and anticipate from us once we do our expansions,” Beitzel defined. “It is an growth, let’s make it clear.”
We even have affirmation that Songs of the Past will embrace extra Gwent playing cards, and that CD Projekt was nonetheless engaged on cross-platform mod help for The Witcher 3, to launch sooner or later in the future.
CD Projekt has but to indicate Songs of the Past off in any method because it introduced the growth in Might, so I anticipate we’ll see a trailer and, hopefully, some gameplay at ONL on August 25. The present kicks off at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm UK time / 8pm CEST.
The Witcher 3 not too long ago hit an astonishing 65 million copies bought (it solely appeared proper that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim hit the similar gross sales milestone just some months later). CD Projekt is of course busy engaged on The Witcher 4, though there’s no launch window but. The Polish video games firm can also be engaged on Cyberpunk 2 in what’s a particularly busy improvement interval.
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