In December 2020, Sony pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store. The game was so broken on last-gen consoles that CD PROJEKT RED offered refunds directly — something publishers almost never do. Thousands of players took them up on it.

Today, the same game sits at #5 on Steam’s Top Sellers chart. Its expansion, Phantom Liberty, holds #9. The base game is discounted to $20.99 — a 65% markdown — and is pushing 19,543 concurrent players. The reviews have climbed to Very Positive across 398,105 ratings.

Read that back. From delisted to charting in the top 10 alongside everything else Steam is selling right now. That’s not a comeback. That’s a resurrection.

By the Numbers

CD PROJEKT RED’s most recent earnings report confirmed Cyberpunk 2077 has cleared 35 million copies sold — and it hit that number faster than The Witcher 3, per VGC’s reporting. The Witcher 3, one of the top 10 best-selling games of all time at 60 million units, needed roughly six years to move 30 million. Cyberpunk got there quicker despite a launch so catastrophic it became its own genre of internet content.

Phantom Liberty, the 2023 spy-thriller expansion, has sold more than 10 million units independently. It holds a 91% positive rating from 10,970 Steam reviews — a higher approval score than the base game’s 88%. On Metacritic, Cyberpunk 2077 sits at 86.

The Reviews Tell the Real Story

The aggregate numbers are impressive. The individual reviews are more honest.

One player, 556 hours deep, keeps it simple: “Absolute Peak!” Another, with 104 hours logged, leaves a positive recommendation while calling the game “unfinished” with “lots of bugs, cut content, missing core features” and comparing it to buying Early Access. A third reviewer opens with “Lots of Cyber, not enough Punk” before evaluating the patched product on its own merits.

These aren’t fanboys riding a redemption narrative. These are players who lived through the 2020 disaster, stuck around, and are recommending the game with conditions attached.

The Phantom Liberty reviews land even harder. One top-rated review calls it “a playable James Bond film,” adding: “Some of the most engaging, compelling and tragic story I’ve experienced.” Another player notes the DLC “at least has memorable and cool missions unlike most of the main game” — a backhanded compliment that doubles as a serious endorsement of the expansion.

Cheap or Good: Pick Both

At $20.99, Cyberpunk 2077 costs less than a decent dinner out. The discount alone explains the chart position — price moves units, always has.

But Phantom Liberty is only 35% off at $19.49, and it’s still charting in the top 10. Players aren’t just bargain-hunting. They’re paying near-full DLC price for content attached to a game that was a punchline three years ago. That’s not discount psychology. That’s word of mouth telling you the expansion is legitimately worth your money.

The timing helps. CD PROJEKT RED dropped a free PS5 Pro update on April 8, complete with three graphics modes and enhanced ray tracing, as reported by Screen Rant. The base game is also available through the PlayStation Plus catalog for Extra and Premium subscribers at no extra cost. Every major platform is currently offering players a low-risk entry point.

What Comes Next

CD PROJEKT RED has moved on, structurally speaking. GameSpot reports 447 developers are building The Witcher 4, while the Cyberpunk sequel — now in development at studios in Boston, Warsaw, and Vancouver — has 135 people staffed. Plans call for scaling that team to 300+ by 2027, making any release before 2028 speculative at best.

But the original game keeps producing. Two entries in Steam’s top 10. 35 million copies. 10 million for the expansion. An 86 Metacritic. All for a title Sony literally removed from its digital storefront at launch.

This isn’t a “ship broken, patch later” success story — that playbook should stay buried. CD PROJEKT RED ate years of reputational damage to get here. The turnaround worked because the studio put in the hours, shipped meaningful updates, and then delivered an expansion that could stand on its own merit.

Right now, Steam’s charts are just tallying the receipts.

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