Growth on the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel has simply taken one other large step ahead, as the sport has formally entered pre-production and it has a brand new title: Cyberpunk 2.
“A number of weeks in the past, the CDPR staff answerable for the subsequent large sport set within the Cyberpunk universe accomplished the challenge’s conceptual part. In consequence, Cyberpunk 2–previously recognized underneath the codename Challenge Orion–has progressed to pre-production,” CDPR stated in its Q1 2025 earnings report.
Extraordinarily early growth on Cyberpunk 2 started a number of years in the past, and pre-production usually implies that extra items must fall in place–from idea artwork to staffing and a number of different essential factors–before work kicks off in earnest.
The sport title may additionally change in time, however that is hardly unusual within the business as we speak. The Cyberpunk 2 title reveal was carried out throughout an investor announcement after all–suggesting that that is in reality a working title that does not give away any concrete details–and a proper reveal for the sport may see that title altered to higher replicate what the sequel is about.
CDPR described Cyberpunk 2 as being within the “early levels of growth,” again in 2024, as the corporate first targeted on constructing a robust basis for the folks tasked with producing it. Senior staffers from the unique game–including sport director Gabriel Amatangelo and affiliate sport director Paweł Sasko–are main growth at CDPR’s new Boston studio, and the corporate has employed skilled folks from Blizzard, IO Interactive, and Large Leisure to affix the Cyberpunk 2 staff.
Particulars are slim at this level within the sport’s growth journey, however what we do know is that will probably be constructed within Unreal Engine 5–Cyberpunk 2077 was developed in CDPR’s inside Pink Engine–and Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith hinted that gamers will get to discover a second metropolis in some capability.
Whereas Cyberpunk 2 continues to be a great distance from being seen, the primary sport and its award-winning enlargement Phantom Liberty are being bundled collectively as a Swap 2 launch title, which is able to doubtless add to the sport’s already spectacular lifetime gross sales determine of 25 million models bought.