May 2026 Is Shaping Up to Be The Witcher’s Biggest Month Yet

File this under: did not see that coming. A new paid expansion for The Witcher 3 might be on the way… in May 2026. Not from CD Projekt Red directly, but from a Polish brokerage note that lays out a pretty specific plan. Big grain of salt, but still worth paying attention to.

Where this is coming from

Polish investor site Strefa Inwestorow published a report from Noble Securities that sketches out CD Projekt Red's next few years. It includes a bold call about Geralt getting one more ride.

"We expect another paid expansion pack (DLC) for The Witcher 3 to be released in May 2026. We expect to sell 11 million copies at $30 next year. We estimate the production budget at PLN 52 million. The launch should kick off the Witcher 4 marketing campaign proper."

To translate the finance-speak: an analyst thinks CDPR will drop a $30 Witcher 3 add-on in 2026, spend about PLN 52 million making it, and use it as the on-ramp to a full-blown marketing push for the next mainline Witcher. The report also tosses in that 11 million sales figure at $30, with the timing of "next year" tied to their model, not necessarily a calendar year you can circle.

What a $30 Witcher 3 DLC even means

CDPR's last two expansions set the bar: Hearts of Stone launched at $9.99, Blood and Wine at $19.99. If this $30 price pans out, yeah, the number keeps stepping up by roughly ten bucks each time. That could be simple economics (games cost more to make now), or a hint this would be a bigger, meatier add-on. The note also suggests the expansion might include teases for what's coming in the next Witcher game, which would make the upsell easier to swallow.

The broader CDPR roadmap the report outlines

• May 2026: Projected launch for a paid Witcher 3 expansion (analyst estimate, not official).
• Post-launch: That DLC is positioned as the start of the Witcher 4 marketing campaign.
• 2027: The next mainline Witcher entry is targeted for release, per the report.
• Cyberpunk: Multiplayer arrives with the next game, codename Orion, but the report does not expect it before Q4 2030. That timing would line up with Cyberpunk 2077's 10th anniversary.
• Other in-development projects mentioned: Sirius (Witcher multiplayer), Canis Majoris (Witcher 1 Remake), and Hadar (a new IP). No new dates here, just that they are active.
• Market backdrop: The report acknowledges Rockstar's GTA 6 casting a giant shadow over the same window, but frames CDPR as pressing ahead regardless.

Reality check

This is a brokerage forecast, not a CDPR announcement. Release windows move, budgets shift, and that 11 million sales figure is an analyst's spreadsheet, not a promise. Still, the idea of CDPR circling back to Witcher 3 with a premium expansion years later, using it as a hype ramp for the next Witcher, and spacing Cyberpunk's multiplayer ambitions far out to 2030 tracks with a studio trying to pace multiple big bets at once.

If they really ship a $30 Witcher 3 expansion that sets the table for Witcher 4, it is both surprising and kind of savvy. Now we wait to see if CDPR confirms any of it.