Having soldmillions of copies of thePhantom LibertyDLCsince it was released in September,Cyberpunk 2077is on a roll. Well, not quite, as developer CD Projekt Red is now turning its attention to the follow-up, with the game’s narrative director eager to get started.
According to a recent Twitter post from CDPR’s own Igor Sarzyński,Cyberpunk 2077was “just a warm-up,” and the studio is now preparing to “officially kick-start ourOrionjourney.”Orionis the working title for theCyberpunk 2077sequel.
The team working on the next entry began its first day in the new Boston office earlier this week. Sarzyński has said they’re “excited for this project,” while one person (who weirdly dubs themselves Abraham Lincoln on Twitter) asks whether they’ve been practicing their Boston access. Sarzyński replies: “I’m trying!”
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Towards the end of last year, CD Projekt Red unleashedone last big update forCyberpunk 2077. For real, this time. The developer is now seemingly leaping into 2024 with hopes for the future.
We don’t really know anything about the upcoming game, but it’s fair to say the studio will have learned some much-needed lessons from when the current game dropped like a hot mess back at the tail end of 2020.
Things have certainly improved since then – to the point where it was one of thetop-grossing Steam releases of 2023– but it’s a memory that burns deep for some. As CDPR begins to make progress on the follow-up, we can only hope Sarzyński and the rest of the team knock this one out of the park the first time around.
