The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

PC is estimated to account for nearly half of The Witcher 3's 65 million lifetime sales. While Windows 11 became the globally dominant OS back in July 2025, the most recent Steam hardware survey estimates that nearly one in four users on Valve's storefront, or 23.56%, still used Windows 10 as of June 2026. Although Steam is not the only platform that sells the PC version of The Witcher 3, industry trends suggest it is by far the largest. Applying that 23.56% share to just under half of the game's lifetime sales produces a rough estimate of more than 7 million potential The Witcher 3 owners sti

Reports say Songs of the Past is intended to "bridge the gap" between the events of The Witcher 3 and what players will experience in The Witcher 4, acting as a story-driven piece of content that leads directly into the next game. The DLC is said to expand areas of the existing Witcher 3 map rather than introduce a completely new region. Answered

Yes. Earlier reports and rumors indicated Songs of the Past is intended to bridge the gap between The Witcher 3 and The Witcher 4, and the article describes it as a story-driven piece of content tailored to lead players into the next Witcher game. Answered

As much as I love The Witcher 2—easily my favorite in the series, thanks in part to that stellar opening and the branching paths with Iorveth and Roche—it's undeniable that The Witcher 3 feels far closer to what CD Projekt Red was originally striving for. Ganszyniec himself admitted that the third entry was "spiritually closer to The Witcher we would have made if we had the time, money, technology, and skills"—instead, they had the Aurora engine and a dream. However, revisiting the 2007 cult classic all these years later, Ganszyniec isn't sure that making it more like The Witcher 3 would be th