Cyberpunk 2077 is having another moment, but not for the usual reasons.
There is no new expansion, no major patch, and no live-service-style content drop pulling players back into Night City. Instead, CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG has surged on Steam because the conditions around it have changed: the game is heavily discounted, its reputation has been rebuilt over several years, and the broader conversation around Cyberpunk 2077 is no longer dominated by its disastrous 2020 launch.
Oh, and the recent Wuthering Waves content collaboration for the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime, plus the Season 2 teaser trailer, surely help as well. Not to mention the PS5 Pro update from April, which got me to return for a good chunk of hours.
According to SteamDB, Cyberpunk 2077 recently reached nearly 88,000 concurrent players on Steam, its highest figure in around two and a half years. Steam’s own public stats also showed the game among the platform’s most-played titles on June 29, 2026, with more than 78,000 peak players that day.
For an entirely single-player RPG released more than five years ago, that is a notable achievement, and it doesn’t even account for console players.