The Associate Game Director of Cyberpunk 2077 thanks the fans. More than 3 years after launch, the game is finally really popular, and the reviews on Steam have increased significantly.
When you ask fans about Cyberpunk 2077, you get mixed responses. Some have never forgiven the game for its launch, while others consider it one of the best RPGs of all time – even if it only got really good years after release. The developers’ work seems to have paid off, as Cyberpunk 2077 has now reached a new milestone. More than 95% positive reviews on Steam have made Associate Game Director Pawel Sasko emotional.
The DLC finally made Cyberpunk 2077 “really good”:
What did Sasko say? On Twitter/X, Sasko posted a tweet. It shows a screenshot of the current rating of Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam, with a rating of 95% in the last 30 days, he wrote:
You can’t imagine how much this means to me. I was never even close to giving up and always believed that it was somehow possible, but I never thought we would actually see it.
Thank you all so much for the second chance.
This is how Cyberpunk was at launch: Cyberpunk 2077 definitely needed the “second chance”. The game was anything but a success story. Although there were almost 8 million pre-orders before the release, the launch is considered one of the worst ever. Many bugs plagued the game, and especially on the older console generation, Cyberpunk was often not reliably playable.
In fact, the game was so bad on Sony’s PlayStation 4 that it disappeared from the PlayStation Store after just one week and players were offered a full refund – even if they had played more than the usual market time of 2 hours, after which the right to a refund otherwise expires.
But CD Projekt RED fought back afterwards. Instead of leaving the game in its disastrous condition, they released a roadmap and started publishing one bug fix after another. Gradually, Cyberpunk 2077 transformed into the consistently great game it ultimately became – including some major reworks of whole systems through the DLC “Phantom Liberty”.
Cyberpunk 2077 became a cautionary tale: Cyberpunk 2077 was not only widely discussed in gaming. For many, the game is proof that you shouldn’t preorder games because you would essentially be buying a cat in a sack
. Other media have also addressed Cyberpunk 2077, such as the Super Fails
series from Arte:
Where does Cyberpunk 2077 stand now? All the improvements have ultimately led to Cyberpunk 2077 becoming a really good game in the end. Although Cyberpunk 2077 was never the big revolution in gaming that many fans expected after the first trailer, it is a really strong game.
This has also been well received on Steam, so they now stand with 95% positive reviews in the last 30 days (as of May 13, 2024). The overall rating is 83% – and that is more than remarkable considering the negative wave at the beginning. For its perseverance, Cyberpunk 2077 was also awarded the Award for Best Ongoing Game – which many criticized.
Cyberpunk 2077 is overall a success story. Despite several delays in the release date and a bumpy start, the developers managed to ultimately deliver a really good product that they are visibly proud of.
Even if these 95% positive reviews only came three and a half years after the original launch.
