Excellent story and characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“The story is mature, emotional, and gripping, with exceptionally well-written characters.”
Steam review · 521 h played ↗
Cyberpunk 2077
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 88%Very Positive · 88%CD PROJEKT RED2020FPS · RPG · Action
The verdict
A rebuilt, gorgeous open-world RPG with an excellent story, characters and atmosphere. Skip it if you want deep RPG choices or tight systems, or if long dialogue scenes and leftover bugs bother you.
Great for
Story-driven RPG fans who love atmosphere, memorable characters and build experimentation
Main risk
Leftover bugs and crashes, plus shallow RPG choices and talk-heavy missions
What players love
Huge comeback since launch
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“They fixed virtually everything people complained about at release, and what is left now is a masterpiece.”
Steam review · 147.4 h played ↗
Living, immersive Night City
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Incredible world and atmosphere. I have not experienced anything like it.”
Steam review · 101.8 h played ↗
Stunning visuals and soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“this remains the benchmark for that. Especially with path tracing enabled.”
Steam review · 72.8 h played ↗
Great build variety and combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“It never gets boring because each playthrough is different thanks to the variety of builds.”
Steam review · 72.8 h played ↗
Phantom Liberty DLC is superb
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Phantom Liberty is quite possibly the best DLC I've seen in a video game”
Steam review · 81.5 h played ↗
What players complain about
Still buggy and unpolished
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“this game is still as buggy and sloppy as the day it released. Horrible physics, clipping on par with games released 20 years ago”
Steam review · 121.1 h played ↗
Boring, repetitive or clunky gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Movement feels clunky, guns don't feel satisfying at all, the open world is meh to me”
Steam review · 15.4 h played ↗
Crashes and stability issues
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“after all these years it still crashes out of nowhere without any error code log dump to identify the issue”
Steam review · 89 h played ↗
Shallow RPG and meaningless choices
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“95% of the time these choices are meaningless, A/B/C/D simply bring you to the same outcome”
Steam review · 89.4 h played ↗
Too much talking, little gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“You'll listen to someone talk for a half hour, then have 5 minutes of gameplay, then another half hour of talking.”
Steam review · 33.2 h played ↗
Empty, lifeless open world
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“The city is alive on the most shallow of levels. The world feels empty and deserted when you really start to play the game more.”
Steam review · 20.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support70 GB
Minimum
OS64-bit Windows 10
ProcessorCore i7-6700 or Ryzen 5 1600
Memory12 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 580 8GB or Arc A380
Storage70 GB available space
Recommended
OS64-bit Windows 10
ProcessorCore i7-12700 or Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce RTX 2060 SUPER or Radeon RX 5700 XT or Arc A770
Storage70 GB available space
OS64-bit Windows 10
ProcessorCore i7-6700 or Ryzen 5 1600
Memory12 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 580 8GB or Arc A380
Storage70 GB available space
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