CD Projekt Red has announced the much-rumoured third expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It’s called Songs of the Past, it’s based around Geralt again, and it’s coming out next year.
CDPR is co-developing the expansion with Fool’s Theory, as has been rumoured. Fool’s Theory is the studio made up of CDPR veterans that’s remaking The Witcher 1 and helping on The Witcher 4. Fool’s Theory also made the Polish-set role-playing game The Thaumaturge, which I thought was pretty good.
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Songs of the Past is described in a press release as a “third expansion” for The Witcher 3, suggesting it’s comparable in size to previous expansions Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, which were sizable releases. Blood and Wine in particular featured a whole new region and nearly a single-player game’s worth of adventure to have.
There’s no detail on the content of the expansion other than that it will star Geralt – there’s no mention of The Witcher 4 lead character Ciri anywhere. It being called Songs of the Past, however, does suggest we could be going back in time to before The Witcher 3 began, or perhaps to that period of time when Ciri was a child? We could even be going back in time further than that – to before CDPR’s Witcher saga began.
More information is apparently coming later this summer.
