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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 231.0 hrs on record (228.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: 6 Jun, 2021 @ 9:07am

I only review games on steam to complete those stupid missions of the Steam Award but this game I feel like I need to make a review. I’ve completed every mission in the game, from secondary missions to open world Ubisoft level missions. I also got every achievement in the game. And here’s what I think.

#Night City:
The world of Cyberbug is completely gorgeous, beautiful or would I say breathtaking?
The world feels real, every inch of the city is rich in details. From walking through the slums in Kabuki or driving through Japantown you can feel how Night City is rich in details and everywhere you go is unique.

#Characters:
The characters that you see on main and secondary missions are one of the things I can't complain about. They feel real, they have motivations and plans.

#Missions:
The game focuses on what instead of why. You don't know why Johnny hates Arasaka or other corporations so much, he just hates and you gotta deal with it. Gigs at a point of the game become boring as duck, “go there and kill a guy, steal something, sabotage something, plant a bug in a computer”, at some point you ask yourself if those missions were made by Ubisoft. The Beat on the Brat missions are literally stupid, 4 hits of those dudes and you are dead, and if you are playing as Netrunner or something like that and don’t focus on body level, one hit is enough.

#AI:
Npcs from games from 2004 are far better than Cyberbug’s npcs. Their reaction to anything is stupid, their only propouse is walk 10 meters back and forward in the streets. You can punch a guy in a wheelchair and he will be walking like nothing happened. If you park a car in the middle of the street, the other cars will simply stay there forever. I feel like they had a monkey in the dev room coding the police AI. The police spawning behind you and oneshot you is a completely normal phenomenon.

#Gameplay:
Cyberbug lets you play many ways, from a skilled Netrunner to a Street Samurai. But its still boring, almost all perks are PASSIVE. They don't change a duck about your gameplay. Most of the perks are cooldown reduction, increased damage, more move speed, reload speed etc etc. The game keeps telling every minute about cyberpsychosis and how dangerous it’s but you can still use cyberware in every place of your body and literally nothing bad will happen to you. Cyberware is mostly passive too. Only arms and legs cyberwares are not passive.

#Life Paths:
I played the 3 paths and it doesn't matter which path you choose, nothing will change in your gameplay. The only thing that changes is some dialogues and that’s it.

#Customizations :
None, nada, rien, nessuna, keiner. You start the game and you make your character and that’s it. You can’t change your hair cut, tattoos, nothing. You can’t customize vehicles. You can't customize a thing in the game. Games like GTA San Andreas and Saints Row 3 could do all of this, but Cyberbug, “the game of the decade”, can't.

There were too many promises about this game, and they could barely keep half of the promises. I loved CDPR for their work in The Witcher trilogy, they builded their respect for a decade, only to duck it up like this, and for what? Money, greed. They released the game at the end of the year so they could get as much money as possible on Christmas sales. And guess what? It ducking worked! They tricked everyone and sold an unfinished game that YES could be the game of the decade. The devs believed the game would be merely done by 2022 and I really feel bad about them. Cyberpunk, a gigantic overpromise.


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106 Comments
Mandrake 16 Aug, 2025 @ 12:03pm 
Fantastic review, hit the nail on the head.

It's a shiny but mostly empty and forgettable experience to play through.
Thomas Laskowski 4 Jun, 2025 @ 6:41pm 
IMHO. If you read all the other reviews they sound like a copy and paste from Wikipedia. And few too many "product received for free" somehow when general public needs to pay for the game as there is no few levels trial version.
Thomas Laskowski 4 Jun, 2025 @ 6:35pm 
Real human review. Solid. I feel like I wasted my time, but I finished the game in 30 hours. Not very memorable and easily forgotten. :steamthumbsup:
40k - DeathJester 28 Dec, 2023 @ 12:13pm 
Everything you said is accurate. Hate the endings too, all of them!
Afrid 30 Dec, 2022 @ 2:25am 
@FlaffWaffle most intelligent cdpr simp
Jamie 1 Nov, 2022 @ 8:58am 
Couldnt have said it any better myself man. This game is 85% Graphics 15% Story 5% Gameplay
Ashavan 29 Oct, 2022 @ 4:25am 
>plays a game for 228 hours
>literally gives 10 full days of his life to that game
>comments "I hate this game"
>leaves
Gunzou 3 Oct, 2022 @ 7:00am 
" You don't know why Johnny hates Arasaka or other corporations so much, he just hates and you gotta deal with it"
Yes we do know why, Johnny tells us. Pay attention, especially if you played it 3 times.

"The game keeps telling every minute about cyberpsychosis ...... Only arms and legs cyberwares are not passive."
There is a theory for this, Because V is basically dead that he is not susceptible to cyberpsychosis, and can be partially thanks Johnnys help that it doesnt effect V.

"You start the game and you make your character and that’s it. You can’t change your hair cut, tattoos, nothing."
IDK when the update came out but this changed. only thing you cant do now is change your gender.

Game is not finished being updated either so expect more content in the future with improvements to bugs (yes i know they exist). Understandably this review was posted a year ago
{B}Dr. Strangelove{B} 1 May, 2022 @ 8:28pm 
I wish I could believe the positive reviews...I think they must be from people that haven't played really great games...
SimplyBob 16 Aug, 2021 @ 6:27pm 
Nice review, thanks. I've wanted to play this for a while now, but I'm going to continue to wait until the game is improved or the price drops low enough for me to pull the trigger.

The internet in a nutshell is for people to come in and discredit and question others. If you only played a few hours they'd say, "You barely played the game! Review is trash!" or if you have played a ton of hours they'd say, "Why you play it so much, you must like it?!" Don't sweat the people attacking your review - as you are aware, most didn't even read the whole thing. They latched onto a few words that caught their eye and immediately try to throw it in your face. This is also a generalization of the noisy few - the many silent people are unaccounted for in this view.

People form their opinions based on things they read that match their own view. People don't like being wrong or looking dumb - it's not something they know how to face and unfortunately prevents personal growth.