Here's When You Can Play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered in Your Region
The update adds a dedicated accessibility section and a Bard’s Ballad preset, while existing owners get the remaster free on qualifying platforms.
- On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, CD Projekt Red launched The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered across PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2, delivering comprehensive graphical and mechanical improvements to the acclaimed 2015 role-playing game.
- Developer CD Projekt Red announced the project on September 24, 2026, aiming to modernize the 2015 title with advanced rendering and gameplay overhauls to align the original with modern hardware capabilities.
- Updates include a reworked skill tree and "enhanced combat" with new finishers, while the new "Bard's Ballad" accessibility preset reduces cognitive load, CDPR explained, simplifying mechanics like automatic self-healing.
- Existing owners of the base game receive the Remastered edition as a free upgrade on qualifying platforms, which includes the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions bundled by default.
- The remaster precedes the 2027 arrival of the expansion Songs of the Past, which CD Projekt Red stated will set up events for The Witcher 4 in 2028, maintaining player engagement ahead of the next major installment.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered adds a neat Bard's Ballad preset designed to 'streamline gameplay' by offering a ton of custom options you would normally need mods for, and I'm eager to try it out
CD Projekt Red has released a long list of improvements that promise an entirely new experience for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered.
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Release time and new features of the free update
The Witcher 3 Remastered is an extraordinarily generous upgrade that doesn't change the game, but does make it new again
It's tricky to appraise the Remastered edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt because on the one hand, everything about it is extraordinary. It's a free upgrade to an 11-year-old game that showcases a level of support and generosity I don't think I've seen for any other single-player game, ever. It's remarkable that The Witcher 3 should be visually overhauled and even systemically altered so long after its release, without a cost to the player atta…
The Witcher 3 Remastered releases Sept. 29 ahead of Songs of the Past
To mark The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s 10th anniversary, CD Projekt Red is set to release a remastered version on Sept. 29. In the update, fans can expect better lighting and object detail, a wider camera for the combat sequences, as well as a simplified skill tree, with these changes going some way to solving ingrained combat and progression issues. The remaster arrives ahead of the upcoming Songs of the Past expansion, and will arrive on Nintendo …
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