For PC and Xbox players, the practical news is simple: Geralt’s 2027 return will include the card game that became one of The Witcher 3’s most persistent side activities. What remains unknown is whether “more Gwent” means a familiar set of tavern opponents and a handful of collectable cards, a new faction, an expanded quest chain, or mechanical changes. None of those details have been formally announced.
The Gamescom Opening Night Live presentation is scheduled for August 25 at 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific, and 8 p.m. Central European Summer Time. CD Projekt RED has said the new expansion is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2027, developed jointly with Fool’s Theory.
A confirmation, not a feature list
The strongest verified claim here is narrow: players will be able to play Gwent in Songs of the Past. Łukaszewski’s reply was clear enough to settle the basic question, and it came from a named CD Projekt RED employee speaking publicly about the project.
It does not confirm new cards, new decks, multiplayer functionality, balance changes, a standalone-Gwent crossover, or a tournament system. Some reports have already treated the exchange as confirmation of additional cards specifically, but the original fan post asked broadly for “more Gwent.” That wording can reasonably mean the minigame’s return rather than a defined content package.
This difference will matter to players who exhausted the original game’s Gwent collection quests. The base game and its two existing story expansions used the card game as both optional pastime and quest structure: players encountered opponents across the world, collected cards through wins and purchases, and could pursue dedicated Gwent quests. A new expansion can recreate that loop without necessarily expanding the game’s core rules.
CD Projekt RED has not published a card list, disclosed the number of Gwent opponents, or said whether existing decks and progression will be carried forward from a completed save. Until Gamescom or a later developer briefing answers those questions, expectations of new factions or substantial rules changes are speculation.
The expansion’s official record is still spare
CD Projekt RED announced Songs of the Past on May 27, 2026, calling it the third expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The official announcement says Geralt of Rivia returns for a new adventure, that Fool’s Theory is co-developing the expansion, and that release is planned for 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
The platform list is worth noting because it excludes the original PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions. CD Projekt RED has also not announced a Nintendo Switch or Switch 2 release for Songs of the Past. Players still using the older console editions should not assume the expansion will arrive through a backport simply because The Witcher 3 itself remains available there.
For Windows players, the studio has not yet released system requirements, a supported Windows-version list, graphics-feature details, or information on whether the expansion will require the Complete Edition update path. That is a meaningful omission given the PC version’s next-generation overhaul, which introduced ray tracing and raised the hardware demands for its updated rendering modes.
There is no confirmed price, edition structure, pre-order date, release day, or statement on whether the expansion will be sold separately from a future Complete Edition refresh. CD Projekt RED’s announcement also does not say whether owners of the original game, the Complete Edition, or the existing Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions will receive any upgrade or bundle consideration.
Those unanswered questions are more consequential than the Gwent tease for anyone deciding whether to reinstall or repurchase the game ahead of 2027.
“Blood and Wine-sized” is not an official promise
The claim that Songs of the Past will match 2016’s Blood and Wine in size has circulated alongside the Gwent story, but CD Projekt RED’s published announcement does not make that promise. It describes the project as an expansion and says it will deliver a new Geralt adventure; it does not attach an hour count, map size, quest total, or comparison to either existing expansion.
That does not mean the project will be small. In a May discussion reported by Push Square, Łukaszewski distinguished CD Projekt RED’s free DLC from its larger paid expansions, describing expansions as substantial story content with many hours of gameplay. But that is still a category definition, not a commitment that the new release will equal Blood and Wine’s scope.
The distinction is important because Blood and Wine was unusually large for a game expansion, with a full new region, major questline, side quests, equipment systems, mutations, and a lengthy Gwent collection quest. Treating it as a guaranteed template sets a target CD Projekt RED has not put on the record.
Fool’s Theory’s involvement adds another reason to wait for concrete footage. The Polish studio is also developing the Witcher remake, and CD Projekt RED has presented the partnership as a co-development arrangement rather than simply a support-studio assignment. Gamescom should offer the first evidence of whether Songs of the Past feels like a contained Geralt epilogue, a new region-sized campaign, or something between those two poles.
Gamescom should clarify what the card-game return actually means
Today’s trailer is the next dependable milestone, not a launch countdown. CD Projekt RED announced in July that Songs of the Past would appear during Gamescom Opening Night Live, and Game Informer separately reported that the presentation would be the expansion’s first look. The studio’s earlier promise to provide more information in late summer has now reached its deadline.
Gwent is a useful signal of continuity: this is being built as another Witcher 3 adventure, with its familiar world-level distractions intact, rather than as a stripped-down narrative add-on. For longtime players, that may be enough to make the return feel authentic. But the confirmation should not be inflated into a promise of a new Gwent expansion within the expansion.
The trailer’s most useful disclosures would be less glamorous: whether the expansion requires a specific point in Geralt’s story, whether old saves are supported, whether it introduces a new area, and what PC hardware it targets. Until then, the confirmed facts remain that Geralt returns in 2027, the release is planned for PC and Xbox Series X|S as well as PlayStation 5, Fool’s Theory is building it with CD Projekt RED, and there will be Gwent at the table.
