Cyberpunk 2077 hits 65% off on Steam: Night City is more accessible than ever
CD Projekt RED is pushing Cyberpunk 2077 front and center with a 65% discount on Steam, bringing it down to $20.99. A price that reignites interest in one of gaming's most spectacular turnarounds: released catastrophically in late 2020, the game ultimately established itself as a benchmark open-world RPG, especially after the Phantom Liberty expansion. At this price, the last holdouts have little left to argue about.
Night City on sale, but not fire-saled
Cyberpunk 2077 is back in Steam FR's top sellers, driven by a 65% discount that brings the tag down to $20.99. This isn't some throwaway promo on a dying game: it's one of the rare opportunities to jump into an RPG of this scale at a price that requires zero deliberation. The game is complete, massively patched, and backed through the finish line by an expansion—Phantom Liberty, released in 2023—that won over even the skeptics.
To recap, Cyberpunk 2077 hasn't been sold in early access for ages. The current version, the product of years of major updates including 2.0, which overhauled progression and gear systems, bears little resemblance to the chaotic mess that made headlines at its December 2020 launch.
A turnaround that commands respect
The Cyberpunk 2077 situation remains one of the most debated cases in recent gaming history. Disastrous launch on last-gen consoles, temporary PlayStation store removals, massive refunds: the initial picture was grim. CD Projekt RED held course anyway, churned out patch after patch, rebuilt entire gameplay systems, and delivered a standout expansion. The result: a game that now regularly sits alongside The Witcher 3 (CD Projekt RED, 2015) when people talk about essential PC RPGs of the decade.
This trajectory isn't unprecedented—No Man's Sky (Hello Games, 2016) underwent a comparable rehabilitation, shifting from the poster child for broken promises to the gold standard for post-launch support—but it remains rare enough to deserve highlighting.
What you're getting for $20.99
At this price, the base game includes the full campaign, centered on V and Johnny Silverhand in a dense, vertical Night City that still impresses visually on decent PC rigs. Solo content easily spans 40 to 60 hours depending on how deep you dig into side quests, several of which hit a writing bar that many equivalently-budgeted RPGs don't reach.
- Build system completely overhauled since the 2.0 update: restructured skill trees, cyberware central to progression
- Night City among the most believable urban environments in the genre, standing alongside a handful of titles like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Eidos Montreal, 2016)
- Phantom Liberty sold separately (around $25 without promotion): budget extra for the complete experience
The real question: why wait any longer?
If you're among those who've put off buying since 2020—out of distrust, on principle, or for lack of time—the moment is objectively right. The game is stable, the modding community remains very active on Nexus Mods, and official support, while finished on the content side, has left the title in solid shape. At $20.99, the value proposition is hard to argue with. The promo is live on Steam with no publicly announced end date: no need to procrastinate forever, but no rush either.