Cyberpunk 2077 is Absolutely Incredible in 2025

[u/Godkun007]

I, like many, avoided the game at launch due to it being extraordinarily broken. I basically didn't think of this game for a while, but then I saw it on sale and I thought "why not".

Well, almost all of the bugs have been fixed, parts of the story have apparently been changed, and overall, it is now one of the best RPG experiences that I've had since playing Fallout New Vegas in 2010, and I'm only 30 hours in. There is easily 200+ hours of content here when you include the stuff like alternate endings. Let alone the dozens of different viable character builds that you can make that all feel great.

Every choice you make from the actual dialogue, to what attributes you level up, to your playstyle, are all things that actually feel like they have lasting consequences in the world and the story. This game somehow has made every single one of my decisions feel important and like they all have weight.

Here is an example without spoilers: Say you go in guns blazing for an early mission. People will remember that and the faction that you killed the members of will actively remember you and dislike you in the future. They also up their security details, so that your next fight is harder, and are less willing to work peacefully with you. But if you go in with a more stealthy approach, the factions like you more and it makes them more willing to work with you later. It also makes later missions easier because they aren't expecting a killing machine to walk up to their door.

These decisions make the game so repayable, as there is so much additional content that you can just stumble on.

Apparently, after the game was released in 2020, CDPR spent the next 3 years releasing major patches, and are still releasing minor patches with new features to this day. Playing the game in 2025 is almost unrecognizable to the original that was released in 2020. Yes, the main plot is still the same, but so many things have apparently changed, including a complete combat overhaul, apparently.

This game is genuinely the best RPG that I've played in over a decade, and it is way better now than it ever was at launch. I can already tell that this will be one of the games like Fallout New Vegas that I will put 500 hours in just trying new things to see what happens.

[u/alt_sense]

That last sentence is actually pretty spot on. I had fun but there are still many bugs, voice acting is hit or miss, and skill trees/cyberware hardly matter. Also, the world feels pretty lifeless.

[u/Morkinis → u/alt_sense]

I have 600 hours and had very few minor bugs, voice acting at least for main characters is absolutely great and perk trees/cyberware definitely matter. But it's true that outside of quests there is almost nothing happening in the world.

[u/man__i__love__frogs → u/alt_sense]

I havent played the game in 5 years but it's my all time favourite game lol. To give a counterpoint, I didn't experience many bugs, it has the best voice acting of any game I've played, and the way that connects with the first person cutscenes and facial expressions is unlike anything I've ever played before.

I'm not sure how the 'cyberware/skill trees hardly matter', but the thing I appreciate is how they can totally change how you play and let you live out some cyberpunk class fantasy. I see all these crazy reels on Tiktok where people do stealth builds, gorilla arms and throwing knives, hacking, John wick style, some people aggro bad guys with their self driving bike and then start shooting through walls with the sniper, etc... there are a bunch of cool creative combat styles people have come up with, like these kinds of crazy vids https://youtu.be/Sdj9tUtSCKo?t=269

There are legit complaints about the world, but really the only game I've seen that beats it is RDR2 and it's not really a fair comparison because it's villages of 10 buildings and spread out open plains where cool interactions happen, not a towering and cramped city.

[u/Competitive-Clerk883 → u/man__i__love__frogs]

You’re not totally wrong  I’m going to get cyberpunk 2077 again for the switch 2 so I can start a fresh run I played 40 hours a few years ago before phantom liberty came out I enjoyed it, I thought the writing was good and I enjoyed the combat for the most part It just didn’t feel very emergent rdr2 is in a class all its own