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Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action RPG developed by CD Projekt Red and published by CD Projekt, released in December 2020 and rebuilt into its current form by the 2.0 update and the Phantom Liberty expansion. Players create V, a mercenary in the free city of Night City, and choose a lifepath that decides how the story opens before a botched heist leaves a stolen Relic in V's head and the digital ghost of rockerboy Johnny Silverhand sharing the body. The game runs on the REDengine 4 and mixes first-person shooting with a deep cyberware and perk build system, quickhacking, braindance investigation and vehicle combat, all set in a corporate dystopia of six districts plus the Badlands. Its reputation rests on the build variety of the 2.0 rework, the Phantom Liberty spy storyline and Night City itself as the most densely authored open world in the genre.

• Lifepath Prologue System: Nomad, Streetkid and Corpo each open the game with a different prologue, a different starting contact network and different dialogue options for the rest of the campaign.
• Attribute and Perk Trees: Body, Reflexes, Technical Ability, Intelligence and Cool each cap at 20, and every point spent unlocks perks in that attribute's tree, so a build is defined by where the points stop rather than by a class choice.
• Ripperdoc Cyberware: arms, legs, optics, frontal cortex, operating system, skeleton and nervous system slots take implants bought from ripperdocs, with cyberware capacity and armor folded into the implant loadout by the 2.0 update.
• Quickhacking and Breach Protocol: scanning a target reveals its network, breaching it solves a code matrix to install daemons, and combat quickhacks then apply damage, control or stealth effects without firing a shot.
• Braindance Investigation: recorded footage is scrubbed, rewound and replayed in edit mode with visual, thermal and audio layers, and the clues found inside a braindance drive several main jobs.
• Power, Tech and Smart Weapon Families: power weapons ricochet, tech weapons charge and penetrate cover, and smart weapons lock on and track, which changes how every fight is approached.
• Crafting, Upgrading and Iconic Weapons: components and specs feed a crafting tree, iconic weapons carry unique modifiers and can be upgraded along a dedicated path instead of being replaced by a higher tier drop.
• Vehicle Combat and Police Response: the 2.0 update added drive-by shooting, vehicle quickhacks and a escalating NCPD wanted system with MaxTac response.
• Relic Skill Tree: Phantom Liberty adds a separate Relic perk branch that upgrades arm cyberware and unlocks combat cloaking, vulnerability analysis and spatial mapping.
• Street Cred and Fixer Gigs: Street Cred gates gear and jobs, and each district's fixer feeds a chain of gigs that ends in a larger contract and a district-specific reward.