CD Projekt says The Witcher 4 will skip post-launch expansions
CD Projekt says The Witcher 4 will launch as a full package, with no expansion roadmap to cushion the wait the way The Witcher 3 did.
CD Projekt is changing the bargain for The Witcher 4. Instead of promising a big post-launch add-on the way it did with The Witcher 3, the studio says the next mainline Witcher game is meant to arrive as a complete experience, with no expansion planned after launch.
That shift came up during CD Projekt’s Q1 2026 earnings presentation on May 28, 2026, when joint CEO Michał Nowakowski said it would be difficult to bolt on an expansion while the company is trying to release three Witcher games within six years. The message lands differently for a series that built a huge part of its reputation on long-tail support. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt got major expansions like Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, and CD Projekt has just announced Songs of the Past, a third Witcher 3 expansion due in 2027. Around 190 developers, most of them from Fool’s Theory, are working on that project with CD Projekt overseeing the creative side.
The scale of the franchise explains why expectations are so high. CD Projekt says The Witcher trilogy has sold 85 million copies, including 65 million copies of The Witcher 3 alone. The company also said it invested more than 513 million PLN in future releases in 2025, with the bulk of that money going to The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2. For CD Projekt, Witcher is still the engine: tie-in products tied to the franchise have generated more than 100 million PLN since The Witcher 3 launched.
The Witcher 4 itself has been framed as the start of a new era. CD Projekt first officially revealed it at The Game Awards on December 13, 2024, with Ciri stepping into the lead role and the game built on customized Unreal Engine 5 technology. The company said it entered full-scale production in November 2024 with a team of more than 400 developers, and it later said the reveal trailer was the most-watched of The Game Awards on IGN’s channel within 72 hours. That kind of attention is exactly why the “no expansions” signal matters: CD Projekt is asking players to judge The Witcher 4 on the strength of its launch, not on the promise that the real feast comes later.
This article was produced by Prism’s automated news system from verified source data, official records, and press releases, then run through automated quality and moderation checks before publishing. The system is built and supervised by the people who set the standards it runs under. Read our full AI policy.
Did this article answer your question?
