Witcher 3 Remastered launches free Sept. 29, expansion in 2027

CD Projekt Red has confirmed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered will launch September 29 as a free upgrade for existing owners, alongside a paid new expansion, Songs of the Past, due in 2027.

Remastered arrives on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and, for the first time, a native Nintendo Switch 2 version and a release on Battle.net — the latter marking CD Projekt Red's first distribution deal with Blizzard Entertainment. Anyone who already owns The Witcher 3 on a qualifying platform gets the remaster at no extra cost.

The remaster's changes go beyond a visual pass. CD Projekt Red lists upgraded visuals, enhanced combat, improved traversal and movement, new Witcher Sign effects, revamped handling for Geralt's horse Roach, improved monster behaviours, a reworked skill tree, transmogrification, an expanded photo mode and new finishing moves. Separately from the remaster, the studio is also making the existing expansions Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine free for everyone who already owns the base game.

The bigger surprise was the first look at Songs of the Past, a new paid expansion revealed at gamescom's Opening Night Live. It sends Geralt to Letten, a newly introduced region described as an idyllic land of rural tradition hiding a dark secret beneath the surface, where he reunites with familiar faces, wields a new chain weapon and confronts what CD Projekt Red calls a long-dormant evil. It is scheduled for 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2, with no price yet announced.

The moves keep an 11-year-old game current ahead of The Witcher 4, which CD Projekt Red has in development separately. A free remaster costs the studio little directly from existing owners, while a new paid expansion for a game first released in 2015 is a bet that the Witcher audience — and its appetite for more Geralt — hasn't gone anywhere.