After Over A Decade It's The End Of The Line For Cyberpunk 2077

After over a decade, CD Projekt Red finally seems to be closing the door on . The sci-fi RPG was originally announced in May 2012, with a cinematic teaser trailer following soon after in January 2013, but the title was finally released in 2020, albeit not in the state many expected, as there were many complaints that the game was riddled with bugs, performance issues, or was just completely broken, especially on the Xbox One and PS4 consoles, which were the only console versions of the game at the time, with it being playable through backward compatibility on Xbox Series X/S and PS5, but not receiving a next-gen patch until much later.

Since then, there have been several patches to the game to fix it and add further features, and in the eyes of many, CD Projekt Red has finally fully redeemed C, with it now holding a Very Positive review score on Steam, and winning the 2024 BAFTA award for Evolving Game for the team's dedication to ongoing developer support. However, a new post from the CD Projekt Red X account shows that the studio is ready to move on, as it seems to have reallocated the development teams working on to other projects as of April 30, 2024.

The projects that seem to have got a boost from this are, the upcoming game that is intended as "" for the series and is being developed in Unreal Engine 5, and, the sequel to that Game Director Gabe Amatangelo — who helmed the work on 's 2.0 update and expansion — confirmed the team was turning its attention towards more fully earlier this year.

CDPR has shared its updated pipeline, with 5 games confirmed to be in the works across the established Witcher and Cyberpunk series, and a new IP.

The comments beneath the post immediately highlighted this restructuring would likely result in there being no further updates for, with some wondering if the current iteration of the game, 2.12 is now considered to be final. Amatangelo had previously stated in a new interview with that while the team is now finally writing