How Big Cyberpunk 2077's Map Is Compared To Other Open-World Games
Out of the more popular open-world games, Cyberpunk 2077, has a map that ranks on the larger side, but it's by no means the biggest nor the most compelling for all gamers. While space exploring could be gaming's next open-world formula, most AAA titles have maps inspired by and based on real geolocations, such as Night City's dystopian California. However, to understand just how big Cyberpunk's map is compared to other games like itself, it's crucial to know the guesstimated scale.
Guestimates have put Night City and its surrounding badlands, which make up the full explorable areas (and some non-explorable parts) of the map, at around 100-110 kilometers squared in total. Like all video game map guesstimates, it's not exact but represents an ideal number for the sake of comparison to others. Due to Cyberpunk's unique topography, which takes place in a fictional futuristic dystopian city, the density of assets is more abundant than in other open-world games. The lore of the game even follows this, as Night City has no birds or animals because of the diseases that arose from them in a tightly packed city environment. Moreover, Cyberpunk 2077 isn't the only open-world game made on such a large scale; in fact, the game isn't even CD Projekt RED's only creation to reach such a level of in-depth detail.
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Cyberpunk 2077's map fits right in with the most popular AAA open-world titles. Popular titles like Skyrim, Zelda: BOTW, Elden Ring, and GTA 5 are smaller but have the same impact — if not more — than what Night City has to offer, while other games like Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 have larger maps and vastly different setting but still manage to
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