CD PROJEKT RED announces 2027 expansion 'Songs of the Past' for The Witcher 3; PC requirements rise

CD PROJEKT RED has announced a new major expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, more than a decade after the role-playing game first released. The add-on, titled The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past, is due in 2027 and will bring back Geralt of Rivia as the main character. In its press announcement on Tuesday, the studio said, “Songs of the Past will return players to the role of legendary monster slayer Geralt of Rivia for a brand new adventure when it launches in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.”

The expansion is planned for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. It is being co-developed with Fool’s Theory, a Polish role-playing game studio best known for The Thaumaturge. CD PROJEKT RED said it will share more details in late summer 2026.

The announcement stands out because The Witcher 3 is not a new game. It originally launched on May 19, 2015, and became one of the most commercially and critically successful RPGs of the past decade. CD PROJEKT RED says it has sold more than 60 million copies. Its previous two major expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, arrived in October 2015 and May 2016, respectively, making Songs of the Past the game’s third major expansion and an unusually late addition by AAA publishing standards.

CD PROJEKT RED said it moved up the reveal after material related to the expansion briefly appeared on the company’s RED Launcher before a planned announcement during the studio’s REDstreams broadcast the following day. The earlier-than-planned confirmation put to rest speculation about what players had seen in the launcher.

The news also carries a practical consequence for PC players. In a separate support notice, CD PROJEKT RED said the game’s minimum PC requirements will increase with the next update. “Starting from the next update, the new minimum requirements are as follows:” the company wrote, listing 64-bit Windows 11, an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or Intel Core i5-8400 processor, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT with 8 GB of memory, 6 GB of VRAM, 12 GB of RAM and 70 GB of SSD storage.

The updated baseline also means the game will run exclusively through DirectX 12, Microsoft’s graphics application programming interface, and that hard-disk drives will no longer be supported. For some players, that could mean a game that has been playable on older systems will now require a newer operating system, solid-state storage and stronger hardware.

CD PROJEKT RED said players whose machines no longer meet the new minimum requirements will still have an option: they can revert to an earlier version of The Witcher 3 instead of updating.