CD PROJEKT RED keeps giving The Witcher 3 away, and on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, it launched The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered as a free upgrade for owners. The studio handed out 16 small DLC packs in 2015, a next-gen update in 2022 and, since August 25, both expansions. Remastered costs nothing if you own the open-world action RPG on PC, PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S, and new buyers pay $49.99 on Steam at list price. It unlocked on every platform at once, at 6:00 AM ET or 10:00 UTC, according to the studio’s launch map.
The Witcher began as a shelf of Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, so it is fair to read this release the way a reader treats a revised edition. The story is untouched, and CD PROJEKT RED says the game has sold more than 65 million copies. Geralt of Rivia is still searching for his adopted daughter, Ciri, before the Wild Hunt can claim her. Nearly everything around the story has been revised. Combat, traversal, horse handling, monster behavior and the look of the witcher signs have all been reworked, and there is transmogrification now, for the vain.
The change I would read first is what the Switch 2 announcement calls “a completely redesigned skills and character progression system,” because it touches every hour of the game. Returning players should expect to learn Geralt again. Hungarian studio Yigsoft co-developed the upgrade. It was founded in 2021 and has already worked on Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and the 2022 Complete Edition update.
CD PROJEKT RED announced Remastered at gamescom Opening Night Live on August 25, with a trailer that laid out the upgrades.
Two platforms are new. Remastered is the first native Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game, with motion controls for signs, bombs, potions and the crossbow. It also adds gyro aiming and mouse support, and the touch screen works for the map, the menus and Gwent. Owners of the original Switch release claim it at no extra cost. It arrived on Blizzard’s Battle.net too, through a new partnership between the two companies. Marcin Momot, the studio’s social media director, put the update at about 45 GB on PC, PS5 and Xbox and about 50 GB on Switch 2. There was no preload for existing owners.
How The Witcher 3 got here, edition by edition
The family tree is short and unusually tidy. The Witcher reached PC in 2007, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings followed in 2011, and Wild Hunt arrived in May 2015. Hearts of Stone came that October and Blood and Wine in May 2016. A Switch port followed in 2019 and the next-gen update in December 2022. With both expansions now free to every owner, the Complete Edition has quietly become the only edition.
Now the tree is growing at both ends. Fool’s Theory, the Polish studio behind The Thaumaturge, is co-developing The Witcher Remake of the 2007 original with CD PROJEKT RED. It is also co-developing Songs of the Past, a paid expansion due in 2027 and set in Letten, the homeland of the bard Dandelion. CD PROJEKT RED calls it the final chapter of The Witcher 3 and Geralt’s “one last adventure” on the Path. It is listed for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2, the same platforms as Remastered, and not for the original Switch.
Most revised editions exist to sell a reader the same book twice. This one asks nothing of anyone who bought the first printing, and if you never did, it is the printing to start with.
