12 January 2026

The Witcher 3’s Rumored DLC Would Be Good News for Players but Bad News for Geralt

By newsgame

A game or DLC announcement for a well-established franchise is typically good news. Under normal circumstances, it’s a win-win: longtime fans get their hands on new content, while also shepherding in a wave of new players curious enough to try something out. So, in the face of waiting for The Witcher 4, a new DLC for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt should, on paper, be nothing but good news. A cause for celebration, given that it has been 10 years since the recipient of 2015’s Game of the Year received any substantial content.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the most beloved RPGs of the last decade. It is a game that already feels complete yet endlessly replayable. Any reason to return to the Continent sounds like a gift—especially so many years after Geralt of Rivia last rode off into the sunset and the facade of retirement. But if the rumors are true, and CD Projekt Red really is preparing new story content for The Witcher 3, it may not be a victory lap. It may be a farewell. Not just to Geralt as a playable protagonist, but to Geralt full stop.

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Rumor: The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Could Be Getting More DLC

A new rumor suggests that CD Projekt Red may be working on a secret project to deliver additional DLC content for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

A Witcher 3 DLC This Late In The Game Has Me Worried About Geralt

This wouldn’t be the first time The Witcher 3 received extra content. Far from it: Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine were widely embraced as excellent additions to Geralt’s story. However, timing matters.

Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine arrived when Geralt’s story was still actively unfolding. Blood and Wine in particular functioned as a graceful exit: a final monster contract, a sun-drenched vineyard in Toussaint, and the option for Geralt to finally lay down his swords, whether alongside Yennefer, Triss, or alone with his thoughts.

Geralt gets portrait done Witcher 3 — Geralt being painted in The Witcher 3 Blood and wine DLC

That ending mattered because it allowed the player to fill in their own narrative blanks. Geralt could retire, but the game never forced the issue. He could still be a Witcher, just on his own terms. That ambiguity is what made Corvo Bianco feel earned. A new DLC, released years later and positioned in the shadow of The Witcher 4, wouldn’t have the same luxury.

The Witcher 4 Changes the Stakes Entirely

CD Projekt Red has already confirmed two major things about the future of the franchise:

That uncertainty is doing a lot of work. If Geralt were still roaming the Continent as an active Witcher, his presence in The Witcher 4 would be straightforward. Mentor, ally, or an occasionally monster-slaying backup. Instead, the studio has been careful with its language, signaling involvement without promising relevance. This is where anyone’s mind goes into overdrive, and new Witcher 3 DLC becomes troubling.

What to Do Next After Finishing All the Witcher Games

The Witcher franchise boasts three games, and for hardcore fans eager for more, there is still plenty of content to dive into.

A new Witcher 3 expansion wouldn’t exist in a vacuum. Its primary function wouldn’t likely be to give Geralt “one more adventure” for the heck of it, but to bridge the gap between The Witcher 3 and The Witcher 4. And bridges don’t just connect, they transition. That transition could take many forms, but some of them are not particularly comforting:

A story that shows Geralt becoming physically unable to continue the Path
A catastrophic event that removes him from active play
A final choice that closes off the ambiguity of his retirement
Or, most grimly, a story that positions Geralt’s death as imminent, inevitable, or already written

Geralt doesn’t need to die on-screen for the outcome to feel final. All it would take is the removal of possibility: the confirmation that his wandering days are over for good.

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Geralt Was Never Meant to Fade Quietly

What makes this possibility sting is how carefully Blood and Wine avoided it. Geralt’s retirement wasn’t framed as weakness or failure. It was framed as a choice. He survived a world that rarely lets Witchers do so, and he earned peace without being stripped of dignity. A late-stage DLC risks reframing that ending. Not as a victory, but as a pause before potential loss.

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And before you disregard this concern only because of confirmation that Geralt will return for The Witcher 4: memories are a narrative device that CD Projekt Red has used before in both The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077. If Geralt’s role in The Witcher 4 ends up being a flashback, a memory, or a figure already sidelined by injury or age, then this rumored DLC may exist to explain why.

Amazing for The Witcher/Potentially Bad for the Witcher

For any player, a new Witcher 3 DLC would be a gift: more writing, more monsters, more time with a character who defined a generation of RPGs. For the franchise, it could provide crucial narrative glue as CD Projekt Red hands the torch to Ciri. For Geralt, though, it likely means something else entirely.

The end of the road doesn’t always look like a final battle. Sometimes it looks like one last story—told not because there’s more to say, but because it’s time to say goodbye. If The Witcher 3 truly has one more tale left to tell, it may be less about adventure and more about closing the book on the White Wolf for good.