Although its launch was less than stellar, Cyberpunk 2077, coupled with its Phantom Liberty DLC, has turned out to be one of the biggest and best games of the decade.
And following that tremendous success, developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed that a sequel, Cyberpunk 2, is now in the works.
So, if you're curious about the Cyberpunk 2077, which was previously known as 'Project Orion', here's everything you need to know about Cyberpunk 2 including when we think it could release.
Cyberpunk 2077 sequel: Project Orion explained
Project Orion is the in-house name for Cyberpunk 2077's sequel, Cyberpunk 2, and it is currently in pre-production, as a recent earnings report from developer CD Projekt Red confirmed.
We also know that it's being worked on by CD Projekt Red's studios in Boston and Vancouver, likely because their main studio in Poland is currently busy with The Witcher 4.
Multiple major developers from the first game are confirmed to be working on Projekt Orion including narrative director Igor Sarzyński, game director Gabriel Amatangelo, associate game director Pawel Sasko,cinematic director Andrzej Stopa, environment art director Kacper Niepokólczycki, lead quest designer Sarah Grümmer and engineering director Kacper Kościeński.
Around the time the game was revealed, it was also announced that CD Projekt Red would be abandoning its own internal engine, instead opting to develop the game in Unreal Engine 5.
As for the game itself, Cyberpunk will be maintaining its open world, but expanding on it, adding a second major city in addition to Night City from the first game, as original Cyberpunk TTRPG creator Mike Pondsmith shared in May 2025.
The game will also reportedly be more 'reactive', according to associate director Pawel Sasko, who said in an interview with Aftermath that the sequel needs to validate player choices:
"If you in your story have made a certain choice and that's the way you have decided to go with your V and your partners and whoever else you met in the game, that's your story. It's important when making those decisions not to invalidate what players have been doing because it is their story and the decisions they made."
When could Cyberpunk 2 be released?
To put it bluntly, we have no idea when Cyberpunk 2 may release, but we expect that it will release around 2029/2030 – here's why:
In a press release from February 2024, CD Projekt Red confirmed that the game as in the "early stages of development," which makes sense as the Phantom Liberty DLC only released in 2023.
This was followed up in May 2025, where the developer officially confirmed that the newly-dubbed Cyberpunk 2 was now in pre-production.
If we look at The Witcher 4, the game they are currently focusing on, the game entered pre-production in 2022 and is currently on-course for a 2027 release – a gap of five years.
Furthermore, if we look at Cyberpunk 2077 itself, we know that it was first announced in 2012 and released eight years later in 2020. If we map that onto Cyberpunk 2, which was first announced in 2022, then we once again get a release date of 2030.
Of course, this is all just speculation, and given how successful Cyberpunk has proven, both as a game and an anime, we can expect the developers to put more resources into it this time around, so it may arrive sooner.
But conversely, five years is a long time, especially in the games industry, and there's no reason why Cyberpunk 2 could face any number of issues during development that would force a 2031 or even 2032 release date.
We would hope that we'll see a Cyberpunk sequel before the end of the decade, but perhaps this is just wishful thinking – we'll just have to wait and see!
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