Cyberpunk 2077 seems to be to be doing fairly nicely for itself, as the sport’s participant rely on Steam has risen shortly 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 truly noticed numerous massive fixes, and the current-gen model was truly launched. Regardless of all of its issues although, on the time of writing Cyberpunk is sitting at a wholesome 105,445 concurrent gamers (through SteamDB). Why? By means of 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 up to now been fairly extensively praised. And clearly followers have the Cyberpunk fever, as a result of because the launch of the anime, the typical participant rely 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 partially resulting from the truth that CD Projekt has truly made the sport playable since its fairly disastrous launch, however clearly the anime made numerous gamers wish to return to the sport. The sport’s renewed curiosity clearly exhibits that Edgerunners is a superb instance of how anime tie-ins must be performed. In addition to the very fact the sport simply acquired 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 can see the return of Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand.
