New Witcher 3 Expansion Revealed: "Songs of the Past" Continues Geralt's Story More Than A Decade On

It looks like a new Witcher 3 expansion has just been revealed early. Called "Songs of the Past", a website for the expansion pack looks to have gone down in an avalanche of web traffic, but the core details are below. The expansion was originally planned for a reveal in a livestream tomorrow (May 28th at 4PM BST) before being accidentally spoiled in the RED Launcher.

The expansion will be released in 2027 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC - no Switch 2. It's being co-developed by CDPR and Fool's Theory, a Polish studio helmed by former CDPR developers who produced The Thaumaturge in 2024. In the expansion, Geralt returns to take on a "brand new adventure", with more details to come later this summer.

It looks like a sword is central to the plot, given that Geralt is shown unsheathing it in the promotional image with his two usual swords also on his back.

Here's a description of the expansion pulled from the site before it went down (thanks Reddit).

CD PROJEKT RED today announced that a third expansion to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling role-playing games of all time, is coming next year. 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. CD PROJEKT RED is co-developing the expansion with Fool’s Theory, a team comprising industry veterans who worked on The Witcher 3. More details on Songs of the Past will be released in late summer 2026.

To prepare for the expansion, CDPR is also taking the opportunity to update the game's minimum requirements. They now ask for at least a AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or Intel Core i5 8400 processor, a GTX 1660 or RX 5500 XT 8GB GPU or better with at least 6GB of VRAM, 12GB of system RAM, 70GB of SSD storage and 64-bit Windows 11.

None of these minimum specs feel too onerous, though I'm sure Windows 10 holdouts will feel hard done - even though Microsoft stopped supporting the OS last year. CDPR also mention that the game will run in DX12 exclusively going forward, which again makes sense. If you're not interested in the new expansion and you're running the game on older hardware, you can still do so by reverting to an earlier version following instructions in the post above.

What do you make of what's been revealed so far? Are you keen to pick up Geralt's story more than a decade after the Witcher 3 was first released? Let us know in the comments below.