CD Projekt Red Shows Nearly 20 Minutes of Witcher 3 Remastered and Songs of the Past DLC at Gamescom 2026
CD Projekt Red has revealed close to 20 minutes of gameplay footage from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered and its new expansion, Songs of the Past, during a REDstreams broadcast at Gamescom 2026 (VGC).
The footage carries a familiar caveat stamped across the corner: "Work in progress — Does not represent the final look of the game." What it does show is a horseback ride through Letten, a new area tied to the character Dandelion, the bard who accompanies Geralt across much of the original game. Cutscenes and combat from a DLC quest called 'A Bed of Thorns' also appear in the broadcast.
For anyone who played The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — the 2015 open-world role-playing game that sent monster-hunter Geralt of Rivia across a war-torn fantasy continent — the remaster is the base game rebuilt for current hardware. Songs of the Past, a paid expansion, sends Geralt back to the Path for what CD Projekt Red calls "one last adventure" (CD Projekt Red press release). The expansion launches in 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2.
The remaster itself arrives sooner. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered will be available as a free upgrade on 29 September (VGC). Players who own a physical copy of the game on Nintendo Switch 2 can upgrade at no cost, too.
On PC, the remaster brings new minimum specifications. CD Projekt Red's support page lists an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, 6GB of VRAM, 12GB of RAM, and 70GB of SSD storage as the floor for running the game (CD Projekt Red support). That represents a step up from the original 2015 requirements, which asked for far less.
More footage from both the remaster and Songs of the Past was set to roll out across CD Projekt Red's remaining Gamescom 2026 streams, meaning the nearly 20 minutes shown so far may not be the last look before launch.
For fans, the draw is straightforward: a game many consider one of the finest role-playing titles of its era, refreshed for the hardware people play on now, with a new story to follow. The free upgrade removes the cost barrier for existing owners. The paid DLC, arriving next year, adds a fresh chapter to a game that, more than a decade on, still commands attention.
