Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)
Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 shooter video game made by CD Projekt RED and CD Projekt.
Night City sells everything: chrome limbs, black-market cyberware, a shot at fame that usually ends in a body bag. V takes a job for a one-of-a-kind implant and ends up sharing a skull with a dead rockstar's ghost. The city sprawls in neon layers, from corporate towers down to the gang-run streets below, and every district runs on its own rules. Choices ripple through the story and the people caught in it. Adapted from Mike Pondsmith's tabletop world, it puts a mercenary's whole life on the table: money, loyalty, and what a self even is once the body is for sale.
Quick answers
What is Cyberpunk 2077 about?
Night City sells everything: chrome limbs, black-market cyberware, a shot at fame that usually ends in a body bag. V takes a job for a one-of-a-kind implant and ends up sharing a skull with a dead rockstar's ghost. The city sprawls in neon layers, from corporate towers down to the gang-run streets below, and every district runs on its own rules. Choices ripple through the story and the people caught in it. Adapted from Mike Pondsmith's tabletop world, it puts a mercenary's whole life on the table: money, loyalty, and what a self even is once the body is for sale.
When was Cyberpunk 2077 released?
Cyberpunk 2077 was released on 10 December 2020.
Who made Cyberpunk 2077?
Cyberpunk 2077 was made by CD Projekt RED and CD Projekt.
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A few thoughts on Cyberpunk 2077
The neon-drowned future runs straight through Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow's meditation on minds unhooked from their bodies. Vangelis scored the mood decades early on Blade Runner, still the sound of rain on chrome. And Deltron 3030 raps the same dystopia from the gutter up. Start with William Gibson's Neuromancer to see where the genre was born.
Neon cities where your body is just another product
V's Night City runs on the idea that any part of you can be bought, replaced, or hacked out from under you. Ghost in the Shell, Altered Carbon, Akira, the Blade Runner soundtrack, and Deltron 3030's future-hop rhymes all live in that same chrome-and-neon sprawl, where flesh is negotiable and the city never quite goes dark.
Concept albums that turn identity into science fiction
Sharing a skull with Johnny Silverhand's ghost turns Cyberpunk 2077 into a story about what a self even is once the body stops being reliable. Repo! The Genetic Opera, Ayreon's Universal Migrator Part 2, and Muse's Black Holes and Revelations and Simulation Theory all chase that same question through rock opera and concept-album excess.
Open worlds where every district plays by its own rules
Night City splits into a dozen districts, each running its own economy, gang, and rulebook, and Cyberpunk 2077 rewards wandering all of them. Grand Theft Auto V, San Andreas, The Witcher 3, Skyrim, and Red Dead Redemption 2 share that same sprawl: worlds big enough that one side street can eat an entire afternoon.