Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 adds Doom-like minigame starring Johnny Silverhand

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Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 launched last week, and fans have been poring over newly added content to find all the Easter eggs CD Projekt Red has crammed in.

One of the latest discoveries is an arcade cabinet which lets you play a Doom and Wolfenstein inspired minigame called Arasaka Tower 3D. In it, you play as Johnny Silverhand descending the 120 floors of Arasaka Tower in 2023 after he stormed the building in a bomb attack on the corporation.

Complete with Keanu Reeves' face at the bottom of the screen, tight corridors and downsampled tracks from Cyberpunk 2077's OST, it's got 90s FPS written all over it. That's not all though, as players have also discovered it relates to the long-running FF:06:B5 Easter egg present in other CD Projekt Red games.

The arcade cabinet can be found near the Protein Farm fast travel point in the Badlands, in an abandoned church. One of the scores on the leaderboard for Arasaka Tower 3D is FF06B5 and was set by PLHSTR (Polyhistor, the owner of the arcade carbinet). Spoiler warning for the mystery of FF:06:B5 ahead, if you're looking to discover it for yourself!

This is where it gets wild. Waiting around in server room 971229 on floor 52 until the timer reaches 270 seconds will unlock a secret maze on floor -10. Within this map, eight QR codes can be found. A group of sleuths figured out the QR codes were actually parts of a larger image — a three by three square forming one massive QR code.

The group decided to run the partially completed QR code into a website which recovers data from QR codes, and discovered it contained a Python script to play noughts and crosses. After testing out different arrangements of the smaller codes, the group found a version which was «most» correct and, crucially,