Cyberpunk 2077’s player count is thriving through the power of anime



Cyberpunk 2077 seems to be to be doing fairly nicely for itself, as the sport’s participant depend on Steam has risen rapidly following the discharge of Cyberpunk Edgerunners.


We in all probability all know by now that Cyberpunk 2077 did not precisely launch in an incredible state. Whether or not it was the glitches, or the a lot delayed current-gen model of the sport, issues did not actually pan out till this yr when the sport really noticed various huge fixes, and the current-gen model was really launched. Regardless of all of its issues although, on the time of writing Cyberpunk is sitting at a wholesome 105,445 concurrent gamers (by way of SteamDB). Why? Via the ability of anime, in fact.


Cyberpunk Edgerunners, the anime spinoff of CD Projekt’s tackle the franchise from everybody’s favorite Studio Set off, launched final week, and has to this point been fairly broadly praised. And clearly followers have the Cyberpunk fever, as a result of for the reason that launch of the anime, the typical participant depend has been going up and up and up, hitting a peak of 122,376 gamers yesterday (September 24), which as PCGamesN factors out is increased than The Witcher 3’s all time Steam peak of 103,329.


This can clearly in fact be partly as a result of the truth that CD Projekt has really made the sport playable since its fairly disastrous launch, however clearly the anime made a lot of gamers wish to return to the sport. The sport’s renewed curiosity clearly reveals that Edgerunners is a superb instance of how anime tie-ins needs to be performed. In addition to the very fact the sport simply obtained patch 1.6, which added in some content material connecting it to the anime collection.


CD Projekt additionally briefly teased the sport’s first main enlargement, Phantom Liberty, which is able to see the return of Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand.