Here's When You Can Play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered in Your Region
The free update adds visual, combat, and accessibility upgrades, including Bard's Ballad and free access to the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions.
- On Tuesday, CD Projekt Red launched The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered globally across PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC as a free upgrade for existing owners.
- Modernizing the 2015 RPG, the remaster introduces overhauled combat, a rebalanced skill tree, and the 'Bard's Ballad' accessibility preset while bundling all previously paid expansions.
- Technical upgrades feature native DirectX 12 rendering, 4K visual polish, and PS5 Pro support with PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution; the game surged 258% to 114,696 concurrent players on Steam.
- Acting as a bridge, the update bundles previously paid expansions for free and sets the stage for Songs of the Past expansion in 2027 and The Witcher 4 in 2028.
- While some reviewers note the underlying 2015 structure remains largely intact, players celebrate CD Projekt Red's generosity in delivering the decade-old title's most extensive update without additional cost.
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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.
Le Journal de Montreal
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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