Over 4 years after its undeniably rocky launch, Cyberpunk 2077’s latest Steam evaluations have reached the coveted “overwhelmingly optimistic” ranking.
Per Steam’s user-review data, 95% of the 12,818 evaluations written by customers over the previous 30 days had been optimistic. (Cyberpunk 2077’s total score–the common of all 716,126 of its reviews–is nonetheless sitting at “very optimistic.”)
When Cyberpunk 2077 launched again in 2020, it was in fairly tough form. So tough, actually, that it led to developer CD Projekt Pink’s near-total restructuring. However the studio was fast to be taught from its errors, and spent years working to repair the sport’s damaged bits, and enhance on its strengths.
The top results of this effort was the two.0 replace and Phantom Liberty DLC, which utterly restructured gameplay and added a compelling new storyline that includes voice work from Idris Elba. Phantom Liberty was well-received by critics and gamers alike (GameSpot gave it a uncommon 10/10), and after years spent working to create–and then fix–the recreation, CD Projekt Pink appeared pleased with the result as properly.
Phantom Liberty launched simply over a yr in the past, in September 2023. Given the optimistic participant reception, it is not too stunning that the sport’s person evaluations on Steam have turn out to be more and more optimistic as properly.
So what’s subsequent for the Cyberpunk 2077 franchise? Nicely, the sport’s core improvement group has moved to Boston to start work on a “extra authentically American” sequel. (This is every part we all know in regards to the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel.) Each a live-action Cyberpunk challenge and a brand new anime are within the works, although particulars are at the moment sparse.
As for the sport itself, CD Projekt Pink has indicated that other than the odd bug-fix, Cyberpunk 2077 will not obtain any extra updates–so gamers had been caught off-guard when a shock replace launched final month, including a number of new options to the sport …together with a Balatro-based quest.