CD Projekt Red has pretty big ambitions for The Witcher series, and why shouldn'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 called Songs of the Past, which is expected to be released in 2027. The release of The Witcher 4 is likely to follow shortly after, but if you were hoping that game would get the same support as The Witcher 3, you're in for a bit of a disappointment.
The Witcher 4 probably won't get DLC
In CD Projekt Red's latest earnings report (via GamesRadar ), joint CEO Michał Nowakowski was asked if expansion development for The Witcher 4 is on the table, as the studio plans to release three full Witcher games in just six years. It looked like it was most likely not going to happen.
“As you mentioned in the question, the plans are very ambitious,” says Nowakowski. “Specifically, it's the release of three Witcher games over a six-year period. To be honest, it would be difficult for us to add an expansion to the upcoming trilogy. Here and now we have this particular problem.”
So not only does this mean that The Witcher 4 won't get an expansion, but we probably won't see one for The Witcher 5 or 6 either. If the studio is to meet their goal of 3 games in 6 years (I'm willing to bet my house that they don't), expansions are pretty much out of the question, and that's not counting the Witcher remake that's still in development at the moment.
It's also a shame because I've 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 if all goes to plan. And of course, there are never any twists and turns in modern game development, right?
