It is not every day that a 12-year-old game gets new original music — let alone a brand-new expansion. But The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is not every game, and CD Projekt Red is not done with Geralt of Rivia just yet. Milan Records has released a five-track EP drawn from the upcoming Songs of the Past expansion, giving fans their first proper listen to the soundtrack that will accompany the White Wolf’s return to the Path.
Titled The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Songs of the Past (Original Soundtrack Gamescom 2026 EP), the release follows the expansion’s showcase at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live in August. It features compositions from three musicians: Magda Urbańska, who handles three of the five tracks, veteran Witcher composer Marcin Przybyłowicz, and Daniel Elms.
The Tracklist
The EP runs approximately 13 minutes and moves through a range of moods — from the brief, atmospheric opener to Przybyłowicz’s sprawling five-minute centrepiece. Here is every track:
Full tracklist:
1. Return to the Path — Magda Urbańska (1:23)
2. Awoken — Magda Urbańska (2:17)
3. Into Darkness — Daniel Elms (1:22)
4. What’s Done — Marcin Przybyłowicz (5:02)
5. Belleteyn Night — Magda Urbańska (3:08)
Urbańska’s opening piece, “Return to the Path,” sets the tone with a short, evocative introduction that feels like stepping out of a tavern and onto a muddy road. “Awoken” builds on that foundation with fuller orchestration, while Elms’ “Into Darkness” leans into something more ominous. The standout is Przybyłowicz’s “What’s Done” — at over five minutes, it is the longest track and the one most directly connected to the original game’s musical identity. His return is significant: Przybyłowicz was one of the principal composers behind The Witcher 3’s acclaimed original score, and his involvement signals continuity with the sound that made the franchise’s music a standalone listening experience.
Preserving The Witcher DNA
In a statement accompanying the release, Urbańska spoke about the challenge of writing for a world with such an established musical identity. “I’ve worked with classical music for most of my life,” she said. “But folk requires a completely different sensibility — it has its own tone and form, while also offering enormous creative freedom.”
She described the score as drawing on Slavic heritage and regional instrumentation, blending orchestral writing with traditional folk influences and powerful vocal performances. Milan Records characterises the music as capturing “both the intimacy and grandeur of a new chapter in Geralt’s story” — a description that aligns with what fans of the original soundtrack will recognise as the franchise’s signature balance between quiet village melodies and sweeping orchestral battle themes.
That CD Projekt Red is still releasing new Witcher 3 content more than a decade after the game’s launch is, in itself, remarkable. The original game won IGN’s Game of the Year in 2015 and has since sold over 50 million copies. Two expansions — Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine — arrived in 2015 and 2016 respectively, and for years both were considered among the finest DLC ever made. Songs of the Past will be the game’s third paid expansion and the first new story content since Blood and Wine, making it one of the longest gaps between major DLC releases in AAA gaming.
Songs of the Past: What We Know About the Expansion
The EP is the latest piece of a marketing campaign that began in earnest at Gamescom 2026, where CD Projekt Red revealed substantial details about the expansion itself. Songs of the Past takes Geralt to Letten, a new region that presents as an idyllic rural landscape — harvest festivals, folk traditions, pastoral beauty — before revealing the dark secrets lurking beneath. A new romance, a chain weapon (the same one Geralt wielded in The Witcher 1’s opening), and a story that the developers say has been in the works for years are all confirmed.
The expansion is being co-developed by Fool’s Theory, a Polish studio whose veterans worked on the original Witcher 3, and is scheduled for release in 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. It will arrive alongside The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered, which launches today as a free update for existing owners.
The EP is available now on all major streaming platforms. Whether it is a quick refresher or your first taste of what Letten sounds like, thirteen minutes is a small price to pay for a return to the Continent.
