Cyberpunk 2077 Trivia
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46 free Cyberpunk 2077 trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Sep 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
Keanu Reeves revealed the role himself on stage at E3 2019. When a fan yelled 'You're breathtaking!', he shouted it straight back, and the game kept the joke: collecting all of Johnny's belongings unlocks an achievement called Breathtaking.
Q 02Night City is an independent city-state wedged between which two Free States?
North and South California
North and South California are what the old state became after it left the union and split in two, and the city sits on their border answering to neither. It began as Coronado City and was renamed after its founder was murdered.
Q 03Who murders Arasaka founder Saburo during the heist that kicks off the story?
His son Yorinobu
His son Yorinobu kills him in a hotel suite, then tells security the old man has been poisoned. Two hired thieves are hiding in the room the whole time, which makes them the only outside witnesses to what really happened.
Q 04Which rock band did Johnny Silverhand front in the backstory of Cyberpunk 2077?
Samurai
Samurai's songs are real recordings: the studio hired the Swedish punk band Refused to write and perform them. That makes the group's frontman, Dennis Lyxzén, the singing voice of Johnny Silverhand.
Q 05Which three lifepaths can players choose for V at the start of Cyberpunk 2077?
Nomad, Street Kid and Corpo
Nomad, Street Kid and Corpo each open with a different prologue: out in the Badlands, on the streets of Heywood or inside a corporate tower. After that the three paths merge, and the choice mostly shows up as the odd extra line of dialogue.
Q 06Whose tabletop role-playing game series is Cyberpunk 2077 based on?
Mike Pondsmith
Mike Pondsmith published the tabletop Cyberpunk in 1988 and joked, when Polish fans asked to translate it, that only a handful of people would ever play it. Some of that handful grew up to work at the studio that made the video game.
Q 07What is the biochip that V is forced to slot into their head during the botched heist called?
The Relic
The Relic is an experimental chip that V pushes into their own head when its case breaks. It brings V back from a fatal gunshot, then begins swapping V's mind for the rock star stored on it, which leaves V living on borrowed time.
Q 08Which fixer hires V for the Arasaka heist and then shoots them and leaves them for dead?
Dexter DeShawn
Dexter DeShawn shoots V in the head when the job goes wrong and has the body dumped in a landfill to cover his tracks. It buys him very little: the murdered man's bodyguard catches up with him at that same landfill and kills him.
Q 09What destroyed Arasaka Tower in the 2023 raid where Johnny Silverhand died?
Nuclear bomb
A nuclear bomb went off inside the tower in August 2023 and took the heart of the city with it. Nobody was ever officially found responsible, and the government of the day blamed Arasaka for setting off its own fail-safe device.
Q 10In Cyberpunk 2077, what is the Blackwall?
A firewall protecting the internet from rogue AIs
A firewall protecting the internet from rogue AIs, it was put up by the agency NetWatch after a famous hacker's virus wrecked the old Net. Everything beyond it was written off as a digital wasteland and left to the machines.
Q 11Who is Arasaka's fully cybernetic head of security, the man who killed Johnny Silverhand back in 2023?
Adam Smasher
Adam Smasher has swapped so much of himself for metal that barely any of the man is left. That old killing makes the last act personal: most routes to the ending go through him, with his victim riding along inside V's head.
Q 12Panam Palmer belongs to which nomad clan?
The Aldecaldos
The Aldecaldos are her family, though when V meets her she has walked out after clashing with their leader and is scraping by as a mercenary in the city. Help her patch things up and the whole clan can ride with V in the final assault.
Q 13Rogue Amendiares owns which Night City nightclub?
The Afterlife
Q 21Which 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 22Which of these is one of the four visual styles the art team used to explain Night City's history?
Entropism
Entropism is the look of the lean years, summed up by the art team as necessity over style: dull colours, bulky cars and buildings nobody bothered to decorate. Kitsch, Neomilitarism and Neokitsch are the other three styles.
Q 23Which industrial designer and concept artist inspired the look of Cyberpunk 2077's Night City?
Dieter Rams and Syd Mead
The Afterlife is built inside a former morgue and keeps up the theme: its drinks are named after the famous dead. Rogue, who once ran jobs with Johnny, now owns it and works there as a fixer.
Q 14Night City's police unit for dealing with cyberpsychos is called what?
MaxTac
MaxTac is the squad that gets the call when someone with too many implants snaps. The player can do the same job more gently: a fixer hands out 17 cyberpsycho cases and would rather each target was knocked out alive and sent for treatment.
Q 15Which of these is one of the seven regions of Night City in Cyberpunk 2077?
Watson
Watson once had it all, from skyscrapers and corporate offices to a top medical centre, until an economic crash emptied it out. By 2077 it is known as the city's bad neighbourhood and is home turf for the Maelstrom gang.
Q 16What is a 'ripperdoc' in the world of Cyberpunk 2077?
A back-street surgeon who installs cyberware
A back-street surgeon who installs cyberware is the one contact no mercenary can do without. V's is an old friend, Viktor Vektor, who will fit new optics early on even if V can't pay, on a promise of payment after the next job.
Q 17Which type of ranged weapon in Cyberpunk 2077 fires homing bullets?
Smart
Smart weapons fire bullets that steer themselves towards a locked target, so careful aim is optional. The catch is hardware: the guidance only works once a Smart Link implant has been fitted in the shooter's hands.
Q 18Who is V's best friend and fellow mercenary, fatally wounded while escaping the Arasaka heist?
Jackie Welles
Jackie Welles meets V in every prologue, whichever past the player picks, and the two work as a team from then on. Badly hurt in the escape, he insists on carrying the stolen chip himself and hands it to V as he dies in the getaway cab.
Q 19Which actor stars in Phantom Liberty as secret agent Solomon Reed?
Idris Elba
Idris Elba plays Reed as a weary sleeper agent for the federal intelligence service, lying low in the city until he is needed. When the stranded President wants the one operative she trusts completely, he is the man she sends V to find.
Q 20Which in-house CD Projekt game engine was used to build Cyberpunk 2077?
REDengine 4
REDengine 4 turned out to be the end of the line for the studio's home-grown technology. In 2022 CD Projekt announced that its future games, the next Cyberpunk included, would be built in Unreal Engine 5 instead.
Dieter Rams and Syd Mead pull in opposite directions, which was the point. Rams's spare elegance was borrowed for the poorest, most worn-down streets, while Mead's bright colours and plastics define the flashy style the team calls Kitsch.
Q 24The Reaver, a gang's custom-built car in Cyberpunk 2077, was unveiled as a tribute to which 2015 film?
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road turned five on 15 May 2020, and the studio marked the day by showing off the Reaver, a Wraith gang rebuild of the Quadra Type-66. The caption promised that drivers would 'ride eternal, shiny and chrome'.
Q 25Which hip hop duo wrote 'No Save Point' for Cyberpunk 2077, performing in-game as 'Yankee and the Brave'?
Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels took the alias from a track on their own 2020 album, so El-P and Killer Mike exist inside Night City as a fictional act.
Q 26Which real-life pop musician plays Lizzy Wizzy, a Night City pop star, in Cyberpunk 2077?
Grimes
Grimes plays Lizzy Wizzy and also has music on the game's radio. V meets her through an anonymous job offer and a secret meeting in a motel room, the start of a short quest line that ends somewhere dark.
Q 27Before Cyberpunk 2077's third delay, in October 2020, the studio had announced the game had done what?
Gone gold
Gone gold means a game is judged complete and ready to ship, and the studio had said so earlier that month. Then the date slipped three more weeks to 10 December, after an official tweet had promised there would be no more delays.
Q 28A week after its troubled launch, which company pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from its online store for six months?
Sony
Sony took it off the PlayStation Store on 17 December 2020 and offered refunds. When it came back the following June the listing still carried a warning that buying it for a standard PS4 was 'not recommended'.
Q 29After Cyberpunk 2077's buggy launch, which group won a $1.85 million class-action settlement from CD Projekt?
Its investors
Its investors sued within weeks of release, saying the company had hidden how badly the game ran on older consoles. Several suits were rolled into one, and the payout a judge approved in 2023 was a sliver of the first month's sales.
Q 30Leaked source code reportedly showed Cyberpunk 2077 content censored for China flagged under which children's character's name?
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh is censored in China because of a meme likening him to President Xi, so the label reads as a studio in-joke. It surfaced in 2021 in a screenshot of code stolen by hackers, beside dull flags for things like nudity.