In May this year, despite being deep in development on The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2, CD Projekt revealed that they’d be whipping out one more patch for The Witcher 3 in honour of its tenth birthday. Said update was originally set to drop in 2025, but has now been pushed back into 2026.
It’s a little bit of an extra wait for cross-platform mod support, and given what the studio have been like witch Cyberpunk 2077’s seemingly never-ending string of last updates, I’m not ruling out them having secretly decided to add more new stuff to the RPG masterpiece while they’re at it.
“We originally planned to introduce cross-platform mod support for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S later this year, but the rollout is now shifting to 2026,” the studio announced in a tweet. “We apologise for the delay and will share more details as we get closer to the release. Thank you for your patience!”
While the update’s arguably bigger news for console players who’ll be getting access to Witcher 3 mods for the first time, as we saw with Baldur’s Gate 3’s built-in mod support, having another way for us PC folks to mod up our games is never a bad thing. As in that case, this official Witcher modding support will be done via Mod.io, which might be a preferable route for some, especially for relative modding newbies.
Obviously sticking to established modding setups will still be an option on PC. Odds are a lot of the most popular works will end up on both Mod.io and Nexus Mods, with more advanced mods likely remaining PC exclusive due to the added restrictions console modding entails. PC’ll also remain the sole place you can fire up the REDkit tools CD Projekt released a little while ago to create mods.
If you fancy giving the full FAQ CD Projekt released alongside their initial announcement of the update a read or re-read, you can find it here. Otherwise, here’s a cool Witcher 3 mod you can play right now.
