The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Rumors Indicate New DLC

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released in May 2015, making it ten years old. The main game was followed by two expansions: Hearts of Stone, also in 2015, and Blood and Wine in 2016. Since then, Geralt of Rivia's last adventure has been re-released on various platforms and in various editions. Technical updates aside, the project's development can be considered finished a long, long time ago. How is it possible, then, that there's talk of a new DLC?

A The Witcher 3 Expansion in 2026?

CD Projekt Red is quite vocal about the projects currently under development: according to the most recent update, for example, we know that the bulk of the workforce is currently employed on The Witcher 4 and that within a couple of years there will be a significant increase in staff on Cyberpunk 2. No mention is made of a The Witcher 3 expansion, but recently several rumors from "well-informed" sources have emerged from Poland regarding it. 

We find it singular that these aren't just the usual rumors from unspecified sources: on a Polish economic website, a market analysis was even published, according to which the The Witcher 3 expansion will be released in May 2026, which is when the game's eleventh anniversary will fall. The Noble Securities analyst also suggests that The Witcher 4 could arrive in the fourth quarter of 2027 and recommends buying CD Projekt Red shares... 

How Plausible Are the Rumors?

An expansion released 11 years after the game's launch, 10 years after the previous one, would be simply sensational in terms of timing. However, keep in mind that The Witcher 3 still generates very high interest: a whopping 60 million copies have been sold, 10 of which in the last two years. Part of this interest is due to collateral phenomena like The Witcher TV series, which has been airing since 2019 and has undoubtedly boosted game sales.

In recent years, The Witcher franchise has become much more appealing to the general public, and perhaps CD Projekt feels it hasn't fully exploited its potential. A new The Witcher 3 expansion, also considering how acclaimed the previous two were, would most likely meet with enormous success, even arriving 11 years after the game itself. So, why not?