50 Fun Facts About Cyberpunk 2077

Which actor portrays Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077?

CD Projekt approached him in July 2018; his performance was motion-captured, as Neo's had been for The Matrix.

Night City is an independent city-state wedged between which two Free States?

Founded in the mid-2040s, it functions as a corporatocracy unaffected by federal or state law.

Who murders Arasaka founder Saburo during the heist that kicks off the story?

Yorinobu frames it as poisoning; Takemura, who suspects the truth, later rescues V to use as proof.

What is the name of the player character, a mercenary voiced by Gavin Drea or Cherami Leigh?

The full names are Vincent or Valerie, and Leigh's performance earned a BAFTA nomination.

Which three lifepaths can players choose for V at the start of the game?

Each sets V's starting district and prologue, and unlocks unique dialogue rather than stat bonuses.

Whose tabletop role-playing game series is Cyberpunk 2077 based on?

He consulted on the game and voiced a radio DJ; his company R. Talsorian Games kept the rights to stories set before 2077.

What is the biochip that V is forced to slot into their head during the botched heist called?

It carries Johnny Silverhand's engram, which slowly begins to overwrite V's mind.

Which fixer hires V for the Arasaka heist and then shoots them and leaves them for dead?

Takemura kills Dex and rescues V; Dex's animated commercial character even won a Visual Effects Society award.

Johnny Silverhand died carrying out an assault on Arasaka Tower in which year?

His nuclear attack freed his ex-girlfriend Alt Cunningham into the Blackwall but got him uploaded via Soulkiller.

What is Soulkiller, created by Alt Cunningham in 2013?

Arasaka used it on Alt herself and built its 'Secure Your Soul' programme and the Relic from the technology.

What is the Blackwall?

The Voodoo Boys, a gang of secretive netrunners, wanted Johnny's engram to reach beyond it.

Arasaka's fully cybernetic head of security, fought in every ending, is named what?

Alec Newman voices him; Anders Hellman is the Relic's creator whom V captures with help from the nomads.

Panam Palmer belongs to which nomad clan?

Saul Bright leads the clan, which can join V's final assault on Arasaka Tower.

Rogue Amendiares owns which Night City nightclub?

She is one of Johnny's former partners; the planned card game Afterlife shares the venue's name.

Night City's police tactical unit for dealing with cyberpsychos is called what?

Trauma Team is instead the privatised paramilitary medical service.

Which of these is one of the seven regions of Night City in the game?

The others are the City Center, Westbrook, Heywood, Pacifica, Santo Domingo and Phantom Liberty's Dogtown, plus the surrounding Badlands.

What is a 'ripperdoc' in the world of Cyberpunk 2077?

Viktor Vector, V's ripperdoc friend, is the one who diagnoses what the Relic is doing.

Which type of ranged weapon in the game fires homing bullets?

Power weapons ricochet, Tech weapons penetrate walls, and Smart weapons need specific cyberware.

Which sixth character attribute was introduced by the Phantom Liberty expansion?

The original five are Body, Intelligence, Reflexes, Technical Ability and Cool.

Which actor stars in Phantom Liberty as secret agent Solomon Reed?

The expansion arrived in September 2023 alongside the sweeping Update 2.0.

Roughly how many people made up the core development team?

Development proper began after The Witcher 3's Blood and Wine expansion in 2016; localisation swelled the total credited to 5,381 people.

Which in-house engine powered the game, the last CD Projekt title to use it?

Its development was aided by a $7 million Polish government grant; future games use Unreal Engine 5.

Which 1982 film did environment coordinator Hiroshi Sakakibara call the 'Bible of all cyberpunk'?

Ghost in the Shell, System Shock and Deus Ex were other touchstones; the yellow palette was chosen to stand apart from them.

Which of these is one of the four visual styles the art team used to explain Night City's history?

Kitsch, Neomilitarism and Neokitsch followed it; Entropism valued practicality over aesthetics.

Which two designers were key visual inspirations for Night City?

Rams's elegance was set against low-class neighbourhoods and Mead's colours defined the 'kitsch' feel; the environments took eight years to build.

Whose car designs shaped many of the vehicles in the game?

A motorbike in the style of Akira and a car inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road also appear.

Which hip hop duo wrote 'No Save Point' for the game, performing in-game as 'Yankee and the Brave'?

Rosa Walton's 'I Really Want to Stay at Your House' later went viral through the tie-in anime series.

Who composed the game's original score?

He had also scored The Witcher 3; Grimes, Refused and ASAP Rocky were among the licensed contributors.

Cyberpunk 2077 was first announced in which year?

A teaser trailer followed in January 2013, and the game did not ship until December 2020.

What was the game's originally announced release date at E3 2019?

Three delays followed; developers received death threats over the last one, and 90 per cent of the team learned of it at the last minute.

Sony removed the game from the PlayStation Store from December 2020 until which month?

Even on return, the store warned that purchase for PS4 was 'not recommended'.

How much did CD Projekt pay to settle the investor class actions over the launch?

Four suits were merged into one; a judge approved the settlement in January 2023.

Under what tag did datamined source code reveal content flagged for censorship in China?

It referenced the meme comparing Xi Jinping to the character; the game was already under fire from Chinese netizens over a wiki entry on Taiwan.

Which sequence triggered a seizure in a Game Informer reviewer, prompting a pre-release patch?

The red and white flashing lights resembled patterns used medically to induce seizures; the sequence was reworked.

Which Studio Trigger Netflix anime sent the game's player count surging in 2022?

Patch 1.6, the 'Edgerunners Update', added tie-in content, and a standalone follow-up series was announced for 2026.

Update 2.2, released unexpectedly at the end of 2024, added what feature?

Update 2.1 had already added the Metro and extra scenes with V's romantic interest.

The Switch 2 Ultimate Edition drew attention for shipping how?

Most third-party Switch 2 launch titles used Game-Key Cards instead.

By July 2026, roughly how many copies had Cyberpunk 2077 sold?

Total development and marketing cost, including updates and DLC, is estimated at up to $440 million.

Cyberpunk 2077 won its first Game Award, three years after release, in which category?

It also took a BAFTA for Evolving Game in 2024 and Steam's Labor of Love award.

Which Dark Horse comic set in the game's world won the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story?

It was bundled digitally with purchases through GOG.com.

What internal codename did CD Projekt give the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel it announced in 2022?

The sequel is built in Unreal Engine 5 by CD Projekt's North American studios and entered pre-production in May 2025.

Which sci-fi author called the 2018 trailer 'GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future'?

The man credited with pioneering the cyberpunk genre warmed to the first gameplay demo.

Which type of ranged weapon in the game fires bullets that penetrate walls and enemies?

Power weapons ricochet instead, and the game can be finished without killing a single human.

Which lifepath starts V in Night City's Badlands as an outsider to the city?

Street Kids begin in Heywood and Corpos in the City Center; lifepaths change dialogue options rather than stats.

Whose song 'I Really Want to Stay at Your House' went viral after featuring in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners?

The track topped Billboard's Top TV Songs chart in the United States in 2022.

Roughly how many voice actors worked on Cyberpunk 2077's localisation?

Localisation involved nearly half of the 5,381 people credited on the game.

The Cyberpunk 2077-themed Xbox One X holds what distinction?

McFarlane Toys also signed a three-year deal for action figures, and China got exclusive themed smartphones.

Which transit feature did Update 2.1, billed as 'the last major update', finally add in December 2023?

By May 2024 no developers were left on the game, yet Update 2.2 arrived unexpectedly at the end of that year.

In Phantom Liberty, V must rescue the NUSA president after her aircraft crashes in which district?

The lawless district is run by Kurt Hansen's Barghest militia; the expansion has sold more than 10 million copies.

To what level does the Phantom Liberty expansion raise the game's level cap?

It also adds a nine-ability Relic skill tree, vehicular combat with missile-armed cars and a new ending for the base game.