Cyberpunk 2077 Wiki & Guide

Once I got past Cyberpunk 2077’s slow burn of an intro – it initially took me six hours to even reach the moment where the logo Cyberpunk 2077 is splashed across the screen for the first time – I was all in on this story. That opening segment is slightly restrictive relative to what comes in Cyberpunk 2077 later, but it does an incredible job of creating a sense of investment in V’s struggle, and then keeping that going as the main quests slowly dial up the heat. Past the intro Cyberpunk 2077 wiki & guide, you can go wherever you want on the sprawling map that is Night City; certain neighborhoods may have tougher enemies than others, but generally speaking no one’s going to shoot you on sight unless you go looking for trouble – and from the early hours you’ll already have enough side quests to keep you busy for a long time.

The structure feels very different from many RPGs I’ve played. If most game structures are built like a redwood tree, with a tall central trunk that has paths branching off it as you go higher, Cyber punk is more like a large bush: you don’t have to travel down its main quest very far at all to have dozens of tangled branches already within your reach, all competing for your attention. Most are just a phone conversation away, too: since this is the future, you often don’t even have to go looking for quest givers because people will just call to offer you a job. This does somewhat rob game of a familiar feeling of scaling growth, since the options available to you increase rapidly and then plateau a bit for most of your playtime, but there’s so much to see and do – and still so much not directly handed to you that must be sought out – that I didn’t mind trading in that style of discovery for one of abundant choice.

And while the single, unrestricted urban map means you won’t get that “wow” feeling of traveling to an exciting new open world location at any point, Night City is so dense, diverse, and consistently beautiful that there are opportunities to stumble upon unexpected sights all the time within it – for example, I played for nearly 40 hours before I discovered there’s practically an entire forest hidden under one of the busiest interchanges in town. You’ll be sent through slums, fancy corporate towers, dusty deserts, lush greeneries, and even some weirder places that are better discovered for yourself. The scale and scope of Night City is simply stunning, and driving around marveling at everything.