The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansions add 30-plus hours to the main game

It has become a norm for game companies to announce additional contents of their games before even releasing them with different names like Season Pass and what not. And usually, these contents would include a mission or two that lasts for a couple of hours. In The Witcher 3 however it’s a different case, as it might be one of the most generous expansions pack in modern gaming history.

When you buy the “Expansion Pass” for the game you’ll be getting two expansions that span about 30 additional hours, as if 200 hours to complete the game weren’t enough !

First expansion is called “Hearts of Stone”, an adventure that lasts about 10 hours in the wild and Oxenfurt. While the second expansion goes with the name of “Blood and Wine”, introducing the Toussaint region that will chop another 20-plus hours from your time.

Hearts of Stone will be made available next October while Blood and Wine will see an early 2016 release. You can buy them both or separately.

“With the development of Wild Hunt coming to an end, the team has embarked upon the creation of two new really big adventures set in The Witcher universe,” says Marcin Iwiński, CD Projekt RED co-founder. “We remember the time when add-on disks truly expanded games by delivering meaningful content. As gamers, we’d like to bring that back. We’ve said in the past that if we ever decide to release paid content, it will be vast in size and represent real value for the money.

“Both our expansions offer more hours of gameplay than quite a few standalone games out there. While we’re offering the Expansion Pass now, we want to make one thing clear: don’t buy it if you have any doubts. Wait for reviews or play The Witcher and see if you like it first. As always, it’s your call.”

In other news, the map for the game is finally revealed and it’s massive. Some compared it to Skyrim which looks tiny in comparison as the size of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s map is roughly 3 times bigger. You can also compare it with the map from the second game in the series to find out that it’s 30 times as big just like what the developers promised.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt comes May 19 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.