Cyberpunk 2077 had a disastrous launch in December 2020, which saw Sony delisting the game from the PlayStation Network Store and developer CD Projekt Red offering refunds due to the immense number of bugs and glitches, specifically on older consoles. The game returned in June 2021 but had advised players that it was best experienced on newer consoles.
Following the release of the very highly rated anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, combined with a new update for the game featuring content from the series. Cyberpunk 2077 has hit its highest concurrent player count on Steam since January 2021, peaking at over 85,000 players concurrently playing over the past weekend.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners has received a rating of 8.7/10 on IMDb and a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The anime series was created in collaboration with the games’ developers CD Projekt Red and the Japanese animation studio, Studio Trigger, who have produced the likes of Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia and Star Wars: Visions. Whether you’re a fan of Cyberpunk 2077 or not, with the series being a prequel, you don’t have to have played the game in order to watch Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Set one year before Cyberpunk 2077, in the sci-fi streets of Night City. A talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw in a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants. Making the show stand out is its main character David, as he undergoes major changes throughout the events of the series after a piece of military-grade hardware called the Sandevistan is implanted into his body, granting him superhuman speed and reflexes but having to constantly inject medicine to stabilise himself. The series is now available on Netflix and features 10 episodes each about 25 minutes long.