Witcher 3 Steam players spike after surprise Songs of the Past reveal

CD Projekt Red hurriedly announced a new Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past, on May 27 after accidentally leaking the reveal. On May 29 the Steam player count for The Witcher 3 jumped to 29,166 — one of the highest points seen this year and the biggest spike since February 2022, SteamDB and superfan Alox noted.

Discounts often drive Steam player counts, but The Witcher 3 had no May sale (an April Medieval Fest discount lasted only until the start of the month) and no new playable content. The rise coincided with the 10th anniversary of the Blood and Wine expansion, and many players likely booted up the game to see if Songs of the Past had already arrived.

Songs of the Past is due in 2027 and will serve as a prologue while The Witcher 4 is in development. CDPR described it as a "trip down memory lane" for Geralt before Ciri takes the protagonist chair, and the studio hopes to ship three Witcher games within six years while also juggling Cyberpunk 2 and other projects.

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