‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Player Count Rockets After Netflix Series Debuts

While this probably won’t come as a huge surprise - we’ve seen it with The Witcher before, and no doubt Assassin’s Creed will get a healthy games-sales boost when its TV adaptation lands - CD Project Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 has seen its player numbers rise sharply in the wake of Netflix’s anime adaptation, Edgerunners, debuting on September 13.

As comicbook.com reports, the game’s concurrent players on Steam were sitting at around 15,000 a week ago. But in the wake of Edgerunners’ release, that’s gone up to a peak of over 85,000 in the last 24 hours (at the time of writing, of course). As of just half an hour ago (again, at the time of writing), some 78,000 people were playing the game, just on Steam (says Steam Charts). That’s quite the uptick from where it was seven days ago. And you have to assume that there's plenty of fresh playthroughs going on right now on console platforms, too.

Whether those are returning players or all-new visitors to Night City, we don’t know. What we do is that Cyberpunk 2077 is receiving story DLC in 2023. Phantom Liberty is the expansion’s name and will see Keanu Reeves returning to the (playable) role of Johnny Silverhand. “It’s awesome to be back, playing the role of Johnny,” the actor said in a recent promo video - and yes, yes it is awesome. Looking forward to that when it drops next year.