One million samurai have woken up every day this week
Long-troubled sci-fi action RPGCyberpunk 2077is experiencing something of a comeback, almost two years since it was released on PC and consoles. CD Projekt have revealed in atweetthat the game has seen one million players every day this week so far, across all platforms. They say this figure includes players new to Night City, as well as those returning. I’ve never played it, so don’t look at me.
AsEurogamerreported last week, Cyberpunk’s concurrent player numbers have been climbing enough to make it one of the most played games on Steam. In the past 24 hours,SteamDBshows the game peaked at 86,130 concurrent players. Just a month ago that figure was around 16,000, and the rising player count doesn’t seem to be levelling off. Twitch views for the game also ramped up from the low thousands to nearly 70,000 at the start of September.
Cyberpunk 2077’s also been featured among this week’s NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4000 series announcements, as you can see in the trailer above. The game is getting an Overdrive mode that zhuzhes up stuff like neon signs, street lights, car headlamps, and billboards with fancy ray tracing. It’ll also benefit from DLSS 3 support to boost frame rates substantially. You can read more about all thathere.
There have been efforts to rectify the issues with Cyberpunk. The game already saw another bump in concurrent players back in February, when the1.5 updatewas pushed out. Graham tookanother runthrough Night City then, but felt the game’s strengths and weaknesses were still intact. “Beyond these straightforward fixes, Cyberpunk 2077 remains a messy, mediocre RPG when it comes to the ways its combat and progression interlock,” he said. “While 1.5’s tweaks to those systems make marginal improvements, it doesn’t - and likely can’t - address the problems fully.”
Cyberpunk 2077 is onSteam,GOGand theEpic Games Storefor £50/$60/€60. There’s 50% on all storefronts until September 25th.
