The Witcher 3 is getting a new expansion next year. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past was revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 straight after the remaster trailer, under a card that read “and next year”, and closed on a wishlist prompt with Geralt drawing a sword against a wall of white mist and a tangle of branches.
The trailer opens in daylight, with Geralt in a white shirt at a midsummer festival beside a girl in a flower crown, before the light goes. A torch-lit walk through a swamp leads to a hollow-eyed creature made of roots and antlers rising from a pool, its long fingers reaching for the camera; Geralt, back in armour, wades through blue-flowered woods with his silver sword out and is thrown by the thing before climbing back to his feet. The lines that came through were “didn’t say I was afraid” and “do not give it blood”.
The creature reads as a leshen or something in its family, and the festival opening suggests a village story rather than a world-spanning one. No length, price, or platform list was given, and the only timing is “next year”, so 2027.
CD Projekt Red level design lead Miles Tost filled in the rest on stage. Host Geoff Keighley called it “a wild idea in and of itself, a new expansion for an 11-year-old game”, and Tost said the studio had “this idea for one more story with Geralt” for a while but could not fit it into its schedule until “our friends from Fool’s Theory came around and hired a bunch of old veteran Witcher 3 developers”, including his own former mentor. Fool’s Theory, the Polish studio already handling the first Witcher’s remake, is therefore building Songs of the Past alongside CD Projekt Red.
Tost also confirmed what the trailer hints at: “this is Geralt’s last adventure before we pass the torch on to Ciri, and we wanted to go out with a bang.” The chain Geralt is seen wrapping around his arm and throwing is a new weapon in the game, one Tost suggested many players would recognise from elsewhere in the franchise.