Once again, fans dare to dream about brand-new story content for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with fresh rumors pointing to a surprise DLC reveal. According to Polish insiders, CD Projekt could be preparing an expansion focused on Ciri, almost nine years after the last add-on. However, past statements from the studio and its current workload suggest that this fantasy might be harder to realize than social media hype would have you believe.
We are just hours away from the 2025 Game Awards, and the rumor mill has noticeably slowed down, as it usually does in the final stretch before the show when publishers prefer not to overshadow the event with major announcements. This time around, CD Projekt has not even needed to speak publicly, because two well-known Polish insiders have already ignited one of 2025’s boldest headlines: that the studio is set to unveil a brand-new DLC for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, nine years after its last expansion. The catch is that CD Projekt had already poured a bucket of cold water on the idea some time ago.
As the team at GryOnline has pointed out, the rumor originates from a podcast hosted by Remigiusz Maciaszek and Borys Nieśpielak, who claimed back in June that The Witcher 3 was on track to receive a narrative expansion. At the time, they even named the studio supposedly in charge: Fool’s Theory, creators of Thaumaturge and a team partly composed of former Wild Hunt developers, which made the whole story sound surprisingly plausible. Yet, as mentioned earlier, CD Projekt later refused to comment on any of this, reinforcing the notion that we might simply be dealing with another fan-fuelled rumor rather than a concrete production plan.
Even so, Nieśpielak’s most recent remarks push things further. In a recent episode of the Rock i Borys podcast, he said he would not be surprised at all if a new The Witcher 3 expansion were announced during the 2025 TGA ceremony, and added that he had received confirmation from several sources. Among them was one he described as “very important”, which led him to assume that the downloadable content “will appear” on stage during the awards show, rather than remaining just another piece of speculative gossip.
The idea of releasing new content for a 2015 game may seem odd at first, especially since it is not a live-service title. However, from the beginning, the rumor pointed in an obvious direction: a standalone adventure centered on Ciri. The logic is straightforward enough. With no major CD Projekt releases expected in the short term, a fresh expansion handled by an external team could help keep players engaged with the studio’s IPs and, in theory, act as a narrative bridge leading the audience toward the eventual launch of The Witcher 4. On paper, it would be a smart way to keep the brand alive without diverting the core team from its next flagship projects.
But how realistic is this scenario in practice? Doubt still looms large, and the safest approach is to avoid taking anything for granted. CD Projekt’s earlier refusal to endorse the rumor is already a strong hint that expectations should be tempered, yet there are more practical constraints to consider. Financial and human resources are not infinite, and building new content on top of an in-house engine that has effectively been retired in favor of Unreal Engine 5 would demand significant time and effort, potentially pulling attention away from projects that are already in active development.
On top of that, Fool’s Theory is currently deeply involved in the remake of the first The Witcher RPG, a large-scale undertaking on its own. Under these conditions, it becomes increasingly hard to imagine the studio simultaneously handling a fully-fledged new DLC for The Witcher 3. For now, the situation calls more for patience than excitement, and for fans to treat even the most enticing speculation as what it is: a possibility, not a promise, no matter how appealing the concept of a Ciri-focused expansion might sound.
In the end, a new DLC built around Ciri would fit perfectly with the strategy of keeping the The Witcher universe in the spotlight until CD Projekt is ready to roll out its next big release. From a practical, grounded perspective, though, all we can really do is wait and see whether anything actually happens on the Game Awards stage – or whether this will simply become another example of fan expectations racing far ahead of what studios are realistically able, or willing, to deliver.
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