50 free Cyberpunk 2077 trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Cyberpunk 2077 trivia quiz covers CD Projekt Red's sprawling Night City epic from Mike Pondsmith's tabletop roots through the years of hype, the calamitous December 2020 launch, and the patient rebuild that ended with Phantom Liberty, Edgerunners and 40 million copies sold. The easy questions cover the basics: who plays Johnny Silverhand, the name of the city, the three lifepaths, the megacorporation and the biochip at the heart of the plot. From there the quiz moves through the districts, the characters, the endings, the engine, the delays and the refunds. The harder half is for players who have finished every ending: the four visual styles of Night City, the Polish government grant behind REDengine 4, the Winnie the Pooh censorship tag, the Run the Jewels song, the seizure warning, the class-action settlement, the Idris Elba expansion, the Switch 2 cartridge and the sequel codenamed Orion. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entry for Cyberpunk 2077 before publishing. If you enjoy this, try our Witcher and video game history quizzes next.
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Q 01Which actor portrays Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077?
Keanu Reeves
CD Projekt approached him in July 2018; his performance was motion-captured, as Neo's had been for The Matrix.
Q 02Night City is an independent city-state wedged between which two Free States?
North and South California
Founded in the mid-2040s, it functions as a corporatocracy unaffected by federal or state law.
Q 03Who murders Arasaka founder Saburo during the heist that kicks off the story?
His son Yorinobu
Yorinobu frames it as poisoning; Takemura, who suspects the truth, later rescues V to use as proof.
Q 04What is the name of the player character, a mercenary voiced by Gavin Drea or Cherami Leigh?
V
The full names are Vincent or Valerie, and Leigh's performance earned a BAFTA nomination.
Q 05Which three lifepaths can players choose for V at the start of the game?
Nomad, Street Kid and Corpo
Each sets V's starting district and prologue, and unlocks unique dialogue rather than stat bonuses.
Q 06Whose tabletop role-playing game series is Cyberpunk 2077 based on?
Mike Pondsmith
He consulted on the game and voiced a radio DJ; his company R. Talsorian Games kept the rights to stories set before 2077.
Q 07What is the biochip that V is forced to slot into their head during the botched heist called?
The Relic
It carries Johnny Silverhand's engram, which slowly begins to overwrite V's mind.
Q 08Which fixer hires V for the Arasaka heist and then shoots them and leaves them for dead?
Dexter DeShawn
Takemura kills Dex and rescues V; Dex's animated commercial character even won a Visual Effects Society award.
Q 09Johnny Silverhand died carrying out an assault on Arasaka Tower in which year?
2023
His nuclear attack freed his ex-girlfriend Alt Cunningham into the Blackwall but got him uploaded via Soulkiller.
Q 10What is Soulkiller, created by Alt Cunningham in 2013?
An AI that copies minds into cyberspace, killing the brain
Arasaka used it on Alt herself and built its 'Secure Your Soul' programme and the Relic from the technology.
Q 11What is the Blackwall?
A firewall protecting the internet from rogue AIs
The Voodoo Boys, a gang of secretive netrunners, wanted Johnny's engram to reach beyond it.
Q 12Arasaka's fully cybernetic head of security, fought in every ending, is named what?
Adam Smasher
Alec Newman voices him; Anders Hellman is the Relic's creator whom V captures with help from the nomads.
Q 13Panam Palmer belongs to which nomad clan?
The Aldecaldos
Saul Bright leads the clan, which can join V's final assault on Arasaka Tower.
Q 21Roughly how many people made up the core development team?
500
Development proper began after The Witcher 3's Blood and Wine expansion in 2016; localisation swelled the total credited to 5,381 people.
Q 22Which in-house engine powered the game, the last CD Projekt title to use it?
REDengine 4
Its development was aided by a $7 million Polish government grant; future games use Unreal Engine 5.
Q 23Which 1982 film did environment coordinator Hiroshi Sakakibara call the 'Bible of all cyberpunk'?
Blade Runner
Ghost in the Shell, System Shock and Deus Ex were other touchstones; the yellow palette was chosen to stand apart from them.
Q 14Rogue Amendiares owns which Night City nightclub?
The Afterlife
She is one of Johnny's former partners; the planned card game Afterlife shares the venue's name.
Q 15Night City's police tactical unit for dealing with cyberpsychos is called what?
MaxTac
Trauma Team is instead the privatised paramilitary medical service.
Q 16Which of these is one of the seven regions of Night City in the game?
Watson
The others are the City Center, Westbrook, Heywood, Pacifica, Santo Domingo and Phantom Liberty's Dogtown, plus the surrounding Badlands.
Q 17What is a 'ripperdoc' in the world of Cyberpunk 2077?
A back-street surgeon who installs cyberware
Viktor Vector, V's ripperdoc friend, is the one who diagnoses what the Relic is doing.
Q 18Which type of ranged weapon in the game fires homing bullets?
Smart
Power weapons ricochet, Tech weapons penetrate walls, and Smart weapons need specific cyberware.
Q 19Which sixth character attribute was introduced by the Phantom Liberty expansion?
Relic
The original five are Body, Intelligence, Reflexes, Technical Ability and Cool.
Q 20Which actor stars in Phantom Liberty as secret agent Solomon Reed?
Idris Elba
The expansion arrived in September 2023 alongside the sweeping Update 2.0.
Q 24Which of these is one of the four visual styles the art team used to explain Night City's history?
Entropism
Kitsch, Neomilitarism and Neokitsch followed it; Entropism valued practicality over aesthetics.
Q 25Which two designers were key visual inspirations for Night City?
Dieter Rams and Syd Mead
Rams's elegance was set against low-class neighbourhoods and Mead's colours defined the 'kitsch' feel; the environments took eight years to build.
Q 26Whose car designs shaped many of the vehicles in the game?
Marcello Gandini
A motorbike in the style of Akira and a car inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road also appear.
Q 27Which hip hop duo wrote 'No Save Point' for the game, performing in-game as 'Yankee and the Brave'?
Run the Jewels
Rosa Walton's 'I Really Want to Stay at Your House' later went viral through the tie-in anime series.
Q 28Who composed the game's original score?
Marcin Przybyłowicz
He had also scored The Witcher 3; Grimes, Refused and ASAP Rocky were among the licensed contributors.
Q 29Cyberpunk 2077 was first announced in which year?
2012
A teaser trailer followed in January 2013, and the game did not ship until December 2020.
Q 30What was the game's originally announced release date at E3 2019?
16 April 2020
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.