Due to the facility of anime and Netflix, Cyberpunk 2077 has exited its flop period. The beleaguered recreation has soared in reputation on Steam following the discharge of developer CD Projekt Crimson and animation studio Set off’s collaborative 10-part anime sequence, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
In accordance with Eurogamer, Cyberpunk 2077’s concurrent participant depend peaked on September 16, reaching 37,000. This led to the sci-fi open-world RPG beating out the likes of Elden Ring, Grand Theft Auto V, and Future 2 on the Steam charts. As of yesterday, Cyberpunk 2077 hit 85,555 concurrent gamers, making it the second highest variety of gamers the sport has had since its buggy launch on PC and consoles in 2020, in keeping with Steam DB.
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Cyberpunk 2077’s resurgence in reputation amongst its gamers coincides with the discharge of Edgerunners on Netflix on September 13. Since its debut, the anime has shot up as the quantity two ranked online game TV present on Rotten Tomatoes with a 100% common Tomatometer rating and a 97 p.c common viewers rating. At the moment, Edgerunners is sandwiched between Netflix’s hit League of Legends present, Arcane, and Castlevania.
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The present additionally acquired reward from Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the unique, tabletop Cyberpunk role-playing recreation, in a submit on the r/cyberpunkgame subreddit, saying “THEY FUCKING NAILED IT.”
“It’s like my very own mind. Been ready for this for years,” Pondsmith mentioned. “We’ve (at [R. Talsorian Games]) have been sitting on this for months now. Now you may see what we did.”
In Kotaku’s overview of Edgerunners, I mentioned Edgerunners was “Studio Set off at its best,” praising it for its “deliciously gory and gnarly fights” and its “emotionally resonant story” about how a poor road child named David Martinez turned a made man in Night time Metropolis.
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Preemptively placing earlier than the metaphorical iron bought scorching, CD Projekt Crimson introduced some quality-of-life and bug-fixing updates for 2077 throughout a Twitch stream two weeks in the past. One announcement targeted on its closing “main” patch for last-gen consoles. In it, you’ll be capable of equip a jacket and shotgun impressed by Edgerunners. The developer additionally introduced Cyberpunk 2077’s first main growth, Phantom Liberty, which can function a returning V and Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Silverhand. Phantom Liberty is because of launch someday in 2023.
