GAME · 2020
Cyberpunk 2077
- Developer
- CD Projekt RED
- Publisher
- CD Projekt, Spike Chunsoft, Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X and Series S
61 archived facts 6 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Sep 2026
24 Interesting Facts About Cyberpunk 2077
- #001
CD Projekt Red hired real city planners to help map out Night City, aiming to make exploring the city feel organic and to let players say where they are relative to important points and other structures. How traffic in the city works will also be shown.
- #003
During Microsoft's E3 2019 media briefing, CD Projekt Red sent a free copy of the Cyberpunk 2077 Collector's Edition to the man who shouted "You're breathtaking!" at Keanu Reeves. He refused to accept it, however, and called on CD Projekt to donate a game system to charity instead.
- #005
The music of Johnny Silverhand's band "Samurai" is performed by the Swedish group "Refused."
- #007
Cyberpunk 2077 first surfaced in January 2013 with a teaser trailer. More than 5 years passed before an official trailer was released.
- #011
Keanu Reeves's presence in the game was revealed in the cinematic trailer at E3 2019.
- #014
It is inspired by the writings of science fiction author William Gibson, who coined the terms "Cyberpunk" and "Cyberspace" in his iconic novel "Neuromancer." "Night City" is a fictional city mentioned in many of Gibson's books. "Night City" was also the name of a computer BBS (Bulletin Board System) operating in Queensland, Australia, in the late '80s/early '90s, before the Internet as we know it today was available. It took its name from the novel Neuromancer. Gibson also wrote "Johnny Mnemonic," whose film version likewise starred Keanu Reeves. The "Matrix" trilogy (also starring Keanu Reeves) was inspired by Gibson's writings; the term "Matrix" was first used in the novel Neuromancer to describe "cyberspace." These are the larger influences on the Cyberpunk universe, but it should be noted that the video game is a more direct reimagining of the Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game from the late '80s, which is still popular today.
- #015
Production of the game was delayed four times.
- #017
In 2018, game director Adam Badowski said his team planned to offer fully uncensored nudity in the final game because it supports one of the most important themes of the cyberpunk genre: transhumanism, the belief that humanity can transcend its current mental and physical form with the help of technology. However, when the team at CD Projekt Red showed a demo of the game featuring nude male and female characters at E3 that year, the genitals were covered with pixelated boxes of white digital noise. These boxes were a tactical decision, because Badowski did not want to be accused of using nudity for shock value or to have the international press spend its time on discussions about male or female nudity in video games. The team also wanted the reaction in the room to remain a giggle rather than the outright laughter of any "prudish" or "immature" members of the audience. "Nudity makes it more believable; that's why we want to have it. There's nothing special in it," he said.
- #019
Many of the game's quests take their names from popular songs by rock groups, such as Slipknot's Disasterpiece, The Doors' Riders on the Storm, Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls and many more.
- #020
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Johnny Silverhand is the only character who moves slightly in photo mode. This only happens when photo mode is enabled during one of the missions in which Silverhand is the playable character.
- #021
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Ciri mentioned traveling to the Cyberpunk 2077 universe with Geralt in "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" in 2015.
- #022
Hideo Kojima has a role in the heist mission.
- #025
The city's atmosphere is inspired by the iconic science fiction film Blade Runner (1982).
- #026
On June 26, 2018, CD Projekt Red confirmed that the game would have two fully voiced versions, one in English and one in Polish. As of June 10, 2019, that number had risen to ten fully voiced versions, including French, German, Italian and Mandarin Chinese.
- #027
On the right rear panel of V's car there is a sticker of Roach (Geralt's horse from The Witcher series).
- #028
Johnny Silverhand has more dialogue lines than any other character in the game, apart from the player character V.
- #031
On December 18, 2020, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that Cyberpunk 2077 would be indefinitely unavailable for purchase on the PlayStation Store, following its poor launch performance, particularly on base-model PS4 consoles. The decision was made by both Sony and CD Projekt Red. It was returned to the PlayStation Store on June 21, 2021.
- #033
The memory of the 2023 Arasaka Tower attack that V experiences through Johnny Silverhand's engram is an unreliable recollection of events that, according to Cyberpunk RPG lore, actually happened. Although he does not appear in the memories, Morgan Blackhand was in fact part of the attack team, and Johnny was killed in the Soulkiller laboratories, cut in half by Adam Smasher's automatic shotgun after he mocked the large cyborg. The memories of the rooftop evacuation are also told unreliably. By the time this event took place, Johnny was already dead, and the one fighting Adam Smasher atop Arasaka Tower was Morgan Blackhand, though the outcome of that fight was never determined.
- #039
According to Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the original Cyberpunk RPG, the relationship between Johnny Silverhand and Rogue Amendiares was modeled on a couple he knew in college. In a 2021 Reddit AMA, he said: "I really wanted her to dump the guy so that I was no longer tempted to break his leg when he mistreated her."
- #040
The NPC character Ozob, who imitates Bozo, first appeared in the Brazilian Cyberpunk RPG podcast Nerdcast. The character was first created by Deive Pazos, who also voiced him in the Brazilian Portuguese version of the game in 1993. The book Ozob: Molotof Protocol reveals the character's origin.
- #051
Alanah Pearce, who voices Lana, did not have her face scanned. Instead, she gave the developers photographs of her face for them to build a model from.
- #053
Radio DJ Maximum Mike is voiced by Mike Pondsmith, who created the original tabletop role-playing game Cyberpunk 2013 in 1988.
- #054
The game's opening cinematic (which you sit through or skip to reach the main menu) includes a scene, in first-person perspective, of a woman being knocked out during a robbery. In the game, the entire robbery is shown as part of a Braindance training session (again from the robber's perspective).
- #058
The character Evelyn Parker, voiced by Kari Wahlgren, looks almost identical to Angie, Amber Valletta's character in the film Gamer (2009).
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