Plus a handy flowchart for how to reach every ending in Phantom Liberty
There’s a wealth of different choices to make in Phantom Liberty, but only a couple of key choices matter when it comes to deciding which of the four (technically five) endings you’ll receive. In this guide we’ll walk you through each of the Phantom Liberty endings in great detail, including how to reach each ending, and the consequences of your choices for each of the characters involved.
All Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty endings
The story of Phantom Liberty can end in five different ways (including an unnamed early ending), depending on the choices you make regarding the two main characters of the DLC: Solomon Reed, and Song So Mi (Songbird).
To help you visualise the path and choices you have to take to reach each ending, we’ve put together a handy flowchart of all the different Phantom Liberty endings:
The five possible Phantom Liberty endings are:
Below we’ll go over each of these endings in more detail, explaining exactly how to reach each ending and what the endings mean for the various characters involved in both Phantom Liberty’s story and the wider world ofCyberpunk 2077.
To get the King Of Wands ending, follow these steps:
The King Of Wands ending is not exactlypositivein outlook, but it’s perhapsmore positivethan any of the other endings in Phantom Liberty. In this ending,you side fully with So Miand help her to both escape Reed’s clutches and begin a new life free from control and persecution.
The downside is of course thatyou are forced to kill Reedduring your standoff at the end of the mission Killing Moon. But honestly, he didn’t give you much of a choice. Neither he nor V were gonna back down. On the bright side,you get Reed’s iconic tech pistol, the Pariah.
After killing Reed you’ll carry So Mi into the shuttle and prep her for a Luna-bound takeoff. Then you’ll watch the rocket disappear, chatting to Johnny about the choices you all made that led to this point. Following this are two short missions: Unfinished Sympathy, where you talk to Alex and she reveals that her last job was to kill V, but she won’t bother because she knows V will die within half a year anyway; and From Her To Eternity, where So Mi gets in contact and leads you to a Metal Pin from Tycho on Luna, confirming thatSo Mi is alive and well. You also can pick upSo Mi’s iconic Quantum Tuner.
The other price to pay for So Mi’s happy ending is that, as Johnny mentions,you can kiss goodbye any chance of a curefrom the Phantom Liberty storyline. This is one of the two full endings which don’t offer you the alternativeTower endingpath for the entire base game (the other ending being the King Of Cups). This means after you finish Killing Moon and the next two missions (Unfinished Sympathy and From Her To Eternity), the Phantom Liberty story will end andyou can continue to play the base gameof Cyberpunk 2077.
To get the King Of Swords ending, here’s what to do:
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The King Of Swords ending is the one that takes place when youhelp So Mi escapeduring the Firestarter mission, but thenhand her over to Reedduring Killing Moon. You’ll watch Reed carry So Mi over to the NUSA shuttle and disappear.
A few days later, V will receive a call from Reed asking to meet face-to-face. He’ll say that he’s leaving Night City but wanted to first ask why Songbird contacted V rather than him at the beginning. V’s choice of response doesn’t change anything except how that conversation pans out. Reed will then leave with a promise that the surgery to cure your Johhnification Syndrome will happen soon.
With this done, you’ll receive the King Of Swords achievement and officially end the Phantom Liberty expansion. However, that’s not all there is to the story, because your actions in this path have unlocked an optional alternative ending to the base Cyberpunk 2077 game, calledThe Tower.
To get the King Of Pentacles ending, here are the steps to follow:
The King Of Pentacles ending is a very… heavy ending. In this story path,V helps Reed to capture So Miduring Firestarter, and thenrefuses to help So Mi diewhen they find her as essentially an enslaved piece of Blackwall machinery.
After this, you’ll talk to Reed in the mission Four Score And Seven, where Reed will question everything that has happened and what it says about himself. He’ll ask V whether they think Reed should return to DC.
Either way, V can choose whether to progress with the Cyberpunk 2077 base story as normal, or to complete the optional missions progress to the missions Who Wants To Live Forever and Things Done Changed in order to unlock the secretTower endingto Cyberpunk 2077.
To get the King Of Cups ending, here’s what you must do:
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The King Of Cups ending is what you get if youhelp Reed capture Songbirdduring Firestarter, but thenend So Mi’s suffering by killing herin Somewhat Damaged. This is one of the two main endings to Phantom Liberty which doesn’t involve you getting cured, and doesn’t unlock the optionalTower endingto the base Cyberpunk 2077 story.
The last Phantom Liberty mission you receive after killing So Mi in Somewhat Damaged is Leave In Silence. During this mission, V drives with Reed to a meet with Myers, where V is awarded aNUSA badge of honorfor their work capturing Songbird, And a scant 5,000 credits, indicating just how disappointed Myers is with V’s actions helping So Mi die.
After that, V has one last conversation with Reed before the end credits for Phantom Liberty roll. But don’t worry - you’ll be plopped back in Night City afterwards,free to continue the base Cyberpunk 2077 storyline.
To get the unnamed fifth ending in Phantom Liberty, here’s what to do:
This fifth ending is not really a proper ending to Phantom Liberty. It occurs if you help Songbird escape in Firestarter, then pick up Songbird during Killing Moon, but specifically choose the option “Take her. Don’t want nothin' in return.” when confronted by Reed at the shuttle.
All this means is that Reed won’t contact you after he disappears with So Mi. So you won’t get access to the next mission in Phantom Liberty, effectively ending the DLC early. Not exactly a satisfying ending, and one that you’ll probably want to avoid if you want to experience everything that Phantom Liberty has to offer.
If you opt for either theKing Of Swordsor theKing Of Pentaclesending to Phantom Liberty, then after the credits roll for the DLC you’ll be able to access an optional extra ending to the entire Cyberpunk 2077 story, replacing the traditional ending which begins with the missionNocturne OP55N1. This is known as the “Tower ending”, and includes two optional Phantom Liberty missions:
Over the course of these two missions, V leaves Night City for the surgery to cure them of their terminal Johnny-virus. When they awake, Reed explains to them thattwo years have passed, and that thesurgery was a success, but they have lost all their cyberware,ending their career as a mercenary.
V is given the chance to contact various old friends, including the fourCyberpunk 2077 romance options: Judy, Panam, River, and Kerry. They’ve all moved on in different ways over the past two years, leaving V behind:
Only Viktor agrees to see Vat his clinic, where he catches V up a bit more about the state of the world since two years ago, and confirms that nothing can be done about V’s inability to use cyberware going forward.
After leaving Viktor’s clinic,V is jumped by two thugs, and without cyberware cannot defend themself against the attack. V is later helped out by Misty, who leaves V with a vaguely positive note - that she’s confident V can figure out their life no matter what, even if they’re just “a face in the crowd”.
That’s all four (or five) of the unique Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty endings explained, along with the exact choices you need to make to reach each one. If you want to start a new game, check out our guide onhow to start Phantom Liberty. Or for more information on Cyberpunk in general, consult ourCyberpunk 2077 walkthrough.
