Cyberpunk 2077 appears to be doing fairly nicely for itself, as the sport’s participant depend on Steam has risen rapidly following the discharge of Cyberpunk Edgerunners.

We in all probability all know by now that Cyberpunk 2077 did not precisely launch in a tremendous state. Whether it was the glitches, or the a lot delayed current-gen model of the sport, issues did not actually pan out till this yr when the sport truly noticed numerous large fixes, and the current-gen model was truly launched. Despite all of its issues although, on the time of writing Cyberpunk is sitting at a wholesome 105,445 concurrent gamers (by way of SteamDB). Why? Through the ability of anime, after all.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners, the anime spinoff of CD Projekt’s tackle the franchise from everybody’s favorite Studio Trigger, launched final week, and has to this point been fairly broadly praised. And clearly followers have the Cyberpunk fever, as a result of because the launch of the anime, the typical participant depend has been going up and up and up, hitting a peak of 122,376 gamers yesterday (September 24), which as PCGamesN factors out is increased than The Witcher 3’s all time Steam peak of 103,329.

This will clearly after all be partly because of the truth that CD Projekt has truly made the sport playable since its fairly disastrous launch, however clearly the anime made a lot of gamers wish to return to the sport. The sport’s renewed curiosity clearly reveals that Edgerunners is a nice instance of how anime tie-ins needs to be carried out. As nicely as the very fact the sport simply obtained patch 1.6, which added in some content material connecting it to the anime sequence.

CD Projekt additionally briefly teased the sport’s first main growth, Phantom Liberty, which can see the return of Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand.