The Review
Cyberpunk 2077 launched in 2020 to a rocky reception defined by bugs and a gulf between marketing promises and what shipped — but years of free patches, the 2.0 systems overhaul, and the Phantom Liberty expansion have substantially rewritten that story.
Critics now broadly describe the 2.0-and-Phantom-Liberty era as the game CD Projekt Red originally promised: a cohesive, polished, choice-driven RPG, with Phantom Liberty singled out as one of the strongest expansions of its generation.
Players largely echo that turnaround in recent reviews, even though Cyberpunk's aggregate Metacritic user score (7.3) still carries the scars of launch — a reminder of how far perception has shifted since 2020, even if the early scores still linger in the average.
