The Witcher 3 Remastered release date and launch times

Witcher 3 Remastered release times — (Image credit: CD Projekt)

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🐺 The Witcher 3 Remastered releases on September 29.
🐺 There is no preload since it's an update.
🐺 The update size is about 45GB.

The Witcher 3 Remastered releases this week, bringing updated visuals, a tonne of quality of life tweaks, and even some new features like armor transmog, to the 10-year-old RPG.

The update arrives on September 29 everywhere, with a rolling release time throughout the day that's the same for both PC and console. Here's exactly when you can play:

West Coast US: 3 am PDT
East Coast US: 6 am EDT
UK: 11 am BST
Europe: 12 pm CEST
Australia: 8 pm AEST
New Zealand: 11 pm NZDT

You can see the other times in the image above. Since this is an update to a pre-existing version of the game, there is no preload, except apparently from Battlenet, since it's coming to that platform for the first time. The update is around 45GB.

What does The Witcher 3 Remastered add?

Improved visuals
Reimagined skill system
Expanded photo mode
Improve combat
Transmog
Other upgrades and QoL tweaks

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