“Hmm, the Cyberpunk 2077 anime made me want to try the game again,” Wes Fenlon said this week. (opens in new tab) He wasn’t alone, as tens of thousands returned to CD Projekt Red’s 2020 RPG shooter after the release of Studio Trigger’s Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime.
sites like SteamDB (opens in new tab) Cyberpunk 2077’s peak concurrent players surpassed 85,000 in the last 24 hours on Steam alone. These are player counts we haven’t seen since January 2021, with daily highs around 10-15K higher than normal. Not surprising given that its launch could politely be called a disaster. (opens in new tab)
That’s quite a boost for a game that claims 1,054,388, the highest number of concurrent players ever for a single-player game on Steam. This, along with the timely sale, is also the data point necessary to show that a surge in Netflix players is very real.
Last December, Arcane increased League of Legends player count by nearly 50%. Dota 2 saw a boost after the release of Dragon’s Blood seasons 1 and 2. CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher has surpassed its number of release dates. (opens in new tab) After the release of the Netflix series.
So yeah you can say that Cyberpunk 2077 (opens in new tab) It’s a bit of a second launch at this point, with numbers that put most game debuts to shame.Everything is very clearly tuned and priced like CP2077 just got the 1.6 Edgerunner update. increase. (opens in new tab).
get a cat (opens in new tab) In it, it reigns. Edgerunners jacket also available (opens in new tab) from anime.
CP2077 has other updates in the future, and the game director says Broken Police will be completely overhauled. (opens in new tab)
Amidst all this, one might be forgiven for not noticing that Keanu Reeves is returning for an entire Cyberpunk 2077 expansion called Phantom Liberty. (opens in new tab) I don’t think he really was (opens in new tab) Postponed by sex mods.
While I call this Cyberpunk 2077’s second launch, Fraser Brown sees the expansion as CP2077’s chance at salvation. He says it needs to “beyond sophistication” as it could be the last real shot at saving the game’s reputation. (opens in new tab)
