Cyberpunk 2077 started out as one of the biggest disasters in video game history and spent the next five years becoming one of its biggest successes. Now, it’s back in the news due to a skyrocketing playercount.

With 87,000 concurrent players on Steam last night , Cyberpunk 2077 is now putting up numbers it has not seen in 2.5 years, and it only hit that breaking point due to the release of the phenomenal Phantom Liberty DLC in October 2023. Take that out, and we’re talking 3.5 years instead, that being its 2.0 update.

The recent numbers have doubled its usual, still-very-high-for-a-5.5-year-old-single-player-game average of 40,000 concurrents a night on Steam alone, and you may be able to guess why. It’s not a content update, that’s a hint.

Right now, Cyberpunk 2077 is on sale on Steam for just $18, down from its standard price of $60 (it’s so old most games weren’t even $70 yet). That 70% off sale has put the game at #5 on Steam’s Revenue charts. This is not a bundle with the Phantom Liberty expansion, also on sale from $30 down to $18. Sure, that expansion is way, way smaller, but it’s a bigger game in and of itself than other titles you might pay triple for. And it is an essential part of the Cyberpunk 2077 experience, probably its best content, so I would pick up both of them. $36 is an absolute steal. Cyberpunk is not on sale on console at the moment, $50 on PlayStation and $60 on Xbox. Phantom Liberty is $30.

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This recent sale will add to Cyberpunk 2077’s enormous 35 million unit sales figure, with Phantom Liberty adding at least 10 million to that. It is one of the best-selling games ever, especially when you take out titles that are parts of ongoing series. That is the vast majority of them, and that leaves it alongside the likes of Overwatch, PUBG and few others, and most of those Cyberpunk copies are at a full AAA price.

CDPR is currently working on both The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 2 , or whatever it ends up being called. The studio is hiring up in an industry full of layoffs, and while Cyberpunk is further behind The Witcher , the goal is to not string out projects so we don’t have to wait 15 years for another game in the series to arrive (*cough,* Bethesda). CDPR has additional hyper-ambitious plans to get out a full Witcher trilogy within six years of the fourth game launching. Hopefully none of this comes at the cost of quality.

We know little about the next game, but it is still years off. For now, I would pick up Cyberpunk if you haven’t yet, and experience what I would consider one of the best video games ever made.

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