CD Projekt Red has pretty big ambitions for The Witcher series, and why wouldn't they? People absolutely love the series, it was successful enough to spawn its own mediocre Netflix spinoff, and The Witcher 3 is still considered one of the best open-world RPGs ever made, despite being over a decade old.
Those ambitions start with the recently announced new expansion for The Witcher 3 titled Songs of the Past, which is slated to launch in 2027. We'll probably see the release of The Witcher 4 shortly after that, but if you were hoping that game would get the same amount of support that The Witcher 3 has, you're in for a disappointment.
The Witcher 4 probably won't get DLC
In CD Projekt Red's latest earnings call (thanks GamesRadar), joint CEO Michał Nowakowski was asked if development of expansions was on the table for The Witcher 4, as the studio plans to release three full Witcher games in just six years. He's made it seem like it most likely won't happen.
“As you mentioned in the question, the plans are quite ambitious,” says Nowakowski. “In particular, it's about releasing three Witcher games within a six-year period. It would be difficult, to be honest, for us to add an expansion to the upcoming trilogy. This is where we are right now with this particular issue.”
So not only does that mean The Witcher 4 won't be getting an expansion, but we probably won't see one for The Witcher 5 or 6 either. If the studio is going to reach its goal of 3 games in 6 years (I'm willing to bet my house that it won't) expansions are pretty much out of the question, and that's not considering the remake of The Witcher which is currently still in development.
It's a shame too, because I often felt that the expansions for The Witcher 3 were better than the base game. Blood & Wine is still up there as one of my favorite RPG experiences, but at least I guess we won't be waiting long for new Witcher games, as long as everything goes according to plan. And of course there are never any twists and turns in modern game development at all, right?
