Here's When You Can Play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered in Your Region
The free upgrade adds a new accessibility preset that simplifies mechanics and lets players toggle options usually found in mods.
- On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, CD Projekt Red launched The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered globally across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC as a free upgrade for existing owners.
- Targeting the 2015 game's modernization, the update delivers visual overhauls, revamped combat animations, and a reconstructed skill tree to bring the decade-old RPG in line with current hardware capabilities.
- CD Projekt Red introduced the 'Bard's Ballad' accessibility preset, explaining it 'is designed to reduce cognitive load for players who experience mental fatigue or have difficulty concentrating' by simplifying specific mechanics.
- Player engagement surged immediately following launch, with the Witcher 3 reaching 114,696 concurrent users on Steam—a 258% increase from the previous month when 31,959 were playing.
- The release precedes Songs of the Past, a third expansion due in 2027, which sets the stage for The Witcher 4 expected in 2028, continuing the franchise's multi-year roadmap.
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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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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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