Nearly four years after its release, Cyberpunk 2077 has had numerous title updates and post-launch support, but it's largely missing a “New Game Plus” mode, a staple of the role-playing game that many players of CD Projekt's role-playing game enjoy. . — like 2015's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — have come to be expected, if not almost taken for granted.
In an interview with DualShockers, Cyberpunk 2077 developers explained why fans haven't seen these types of features yet. This is essentially another playthrough of the main game, minus all the player-built progress, equipment, and other features. Their original run.
Warsaw-based CD Projekt Red's Pawel Sasko said that despite player assumptions, the 2020 game's core design was not created to account for these features. “For us, it’s really important that when you have components in a game, they all work together, they all work well, and they all make sense,” Sasko told DualShockers. “Cyberpunk is very specific in its composition,” he added.
Because the game is set in a near-future setting where the player character is on the path to “becoming a legend” while also effectively managing an incurable illness, it's difficult to simply implement a new game and a second playthrough. Because the concept doesn't fit with the main story of the game.
That said, developers CD Projekt Red intended Cyberpunk 2077 to always be played, even if it lacks the sort of spinoff modes that have made other role-playing games (such as 2023's Starfield) so compelling and replayable.
“There’s so much going on in 2077 that you could have at least two or three very different experiences,” he told DualShockers. “So this is another answer: games are made to be played that way.” He said that while it would be possible to add a new Game Plus mode to Cyberpunk 2077, doing so without considering its place in the rest of the game's design “could seem very drastic” as opposed to the ability to add the depth that players expect.
Cyberpunk 2077 overcame a rocky launch with post-launch support and DLC.
Cyberpunk 2077, a highly anticipated role-playing game first announced in 2012, is an adaptation of the pen-and-paper Cyberpunk role-playing series first released in 1988. Performance issues marred its overall critical reception.
The game's follow-up Phantom Liberty DLC sold over 2 million copies, and the title itself also saw several major updates. It was still enough of a commercial and community success that a sequel was greenlit and work had already begun.