CD Projekt Red announced Songs of the Past, a major expansion for The Witcher 3 set to release in 2027. The studio's news triggered an immediate response from the modding community. A group of Witcher 3 modders is now restoring a substantial plague questline that CD Projekt cut from the original game's release.
The modding team calls their project "The War Project" and plans to have the plague questline fully playable by the time Songs of the Past launches. This cut content represents significant gameplay that never made it into the final version of The Witcher 3, despite being developed during production.
The modders' timing is deliberate. Rather than viewing the official expansion as competition, they're positioning their restoration as complementary content. Players invested in Geralt's story will have both the studio's new material and this recovered questline to experience.
This pattern reflects the Witcher 3 modding community's track record. Since launch in 2015, modders have consistently expanded and refined the game, fixing bugs, adding new quests, and restoring cut content. The plague questline restoration continues that tradition while also demonstrating player appetite for material that didn't survive the development process.
CD Projekt's decision to greenlight Songs of the Past came after years of fan requests. The expansion operates separately from Phantom Liberty, the 2023 DLC tied to Cyberpunk 2077's launch. With the new expansion still years away, modders filling the gap with their own substantial content gives players immediate new material to explore.
The community's willingness to tackle expansion-scale projects like plague questline restoration shows The Witcher 3 remains a viable platform for dedicated modding work nearly a decade after release. For players who want everything The Witcher 3 can offer, 2027 will bring official content from