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The man who made The Witcher 3 has just one request for Songs of the Past: "do it good"

Asmir Kovacevic

Published: 20:51, 13 June 2026

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The man who made The Witcher 3 has just one request for Songs of the Past: "do it good"

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz only wants Songs of the Past to be as good as the Witcher 3's previous two DLCs he worked on.

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Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, former director of The Witcher 3, requests the new expansion Songs of the Past be "done well" as he'll experience it as a player for the first time
Songs of the Past is co-developed by CD Projekt Red and Fool's Theory, delayed to 2027, with scope comparable to Blood and Wine expansion
Tomaszkiewicz cannot replay The Witcher 3 due to overexposure from years of development work
The expansion will be shown at Gamescom in August as a guided walkthrough without playable demo

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz only wants Songs of the Past to be as good as the Witcher 3's previous two DLCs he worked on.

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz directed The Witcher 3 and both of its expansions. He has since moved on to Rebel Wolves, but the new expansion still clearly means something to him.

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is busy. His studio Rebel Wolves is less than three months from launching The Blood of Dawnwalker, and the Summer Game Fest circuit has kept him in interviews all week. But when GamesRadar asked him about Songs of the Past, the surprise third expansion to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt announced last month, he had a clear and simple response. "I only have one request," he said, "how to say it politely... to do it good."

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There is some weight behind that. Tomaszkiewicz directed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and oversaw both Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine before leaving CD Projekt Red in 2021. He told GamesRadar that he has never actually played The Witcher games as a regular player would, because spending years building them means seeing every scene, system, and story beat far too many times to approach them fresh.

"I couldn't play The Witcher 3 right now, even from the start, because I saw it too many times," he said. Songs of the Past is different, though. That one he gets to experience from the outside for the first time, and his single condition for it is simply that it is made well.

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The Witcher 3's two DLCs are arguably as good as the base game, maybe even better.

Songs of the Past is being co-developed by CD Projekt Red and Fool's Theory, the studio behind the upcoming Witcher 1 remake and staffed largely by veterans of the original Wild Hunt team. It is scheduled for 2027, following a delay from an earlier 2026 target, and CD Projekt Red has confirmed it will be shown at Gamescom in August as a guided walkthrough without a playable demo. In scope, the studio has drawn comparisons to Blood and Wine. For Tomaszkiewicz, then, this is the first time someone else gets to put their stamp on the world he spent years building. His request is short, but it says plenty.