The Witcher 3 will get official mod tools for free in 2024

Almost a decade after release

Marco Wutz | Nov 15, 2023

The Witcher 3 will get official mod tools for free in 2024 /

CD Projekt Red has announced that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will receive an official mod editor on PC in 2024, almost ten years after the game’s initial launch in 2015.

The Polish developer shared the following message in the context of this announcement: “We're thrilled to announce that we're working on a mod editor for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt! It will allow you to create your own experiences in the game by making something completely new or editing existing quests and content. We’re planning on releasing it for free in 2024. Stay tuned – we'll have more to share next year!”

The Witcher Geralt on his horse. — Modders will be able to build new adventures for Geralt in the future / CD Projekt RED

In the comments, the official account clarified once more that these tools will only be available for PC, not consoles.

Naturally, talented modders have been customizing The Witcher 3 for many years at this point and CD Projekt Red developers even integrated many popular community mods into the RPG’s official next-gen upgrade – famously including a mod that implemented realistic-looking monster vaginas into the game. As if The Witcher 3 hadn’t already been one of the raunchiest games of all time, eh?

While modding The Witcher 3 is already very much possible – to great effect, even – and will always require a certain level of talent and effort, having a set of official tools provided by the developers changes the landscape and will surely open up a great many possibilities. Plus, it makes the hobby more accessible as well, which means that more people will get to try being creative. And that can only be a good thing.

Think about how many people still play Skyrim thanks to that game’s talented modding scene, or how the best Total War: Warhammer 3 mods are keeping that struggling juggernaut going amidst official content droughts. This move by CD Projekt Red isn’t just a great gift to the community, it ensures that The Witcher 3 will further cement itself in the collective history of video games as an all-time great with a long legacy.

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Published Nov 15, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg