Cyberpunk 2077 is having its best month in three years
Cyberpunk 2077 is already having a massive Steam resurgence thanks to the combined releases of the 2.0 update and Phantom Liberty expansion from CD Projekt Red. In fact, the concurrent player count for players in Night City is the highest it’s been in three years, as we’re seeing the biggest number of players in the game since December 2020, the launch month.
The renewed success of Cyberpunk 2077 shouldn’t really come as a surprise to be honest, as it rocketed up the top sellers list on Steam as the Phantom Liberty DLC has done incredibly well critically. The RPG game is having a bit of a renaissance right now, as CDPR moves on to its next projects.
Our own Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty review is a testament to the quality of the work and overhauls brought to the game, and now it has the Steam statistics to match. Keep in mind that Cyberpunk is also available on GOG on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation though.
As of Tuesday, September 26, Cyberpunk has hit a sizable peak of 246,754. While this is significantly less than the December 2020 launch peak of over one million, this number quickly dropped to around 200,000 by 2021. This means that the current peak since 2.0 and Phantom Liberty launched has seen the most players flock to the game since it first released three years ago, according to SteamDB.
An ongoing Cyberpunk 2077 Steam sale already saw players quintuple in the game, but this is even bigger. Over the last three years, the game has struggled to break even just 50,000 concurrent players. While it’s perfectly normal for a game’s concurrent players to drop off, especially single-player ones, the recent continual success of Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam has proved that isn’t always the case.
We might be seeing a total
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