Cyberpunk 2077 hits highest Steam player count in over two years
A 70% Steam Summer Sale cut pushed Cyberpunk 2077 to its highest Steam player count in more than two years, with past-week peaks above 87,000.
Cyberpunk 2077 has surged back to the top of its own long tail, with Steam player counts climbing to their highest level in more than two years after the game was cut to $17.99 during the Steam Summer Sale. Over the last month, the game averaged about 30,000 concurrent players a day, then topped 87,000 in the past week as the discount made Night City an easy impulse buy.
The rebound stands out because Cyberpunk 2077 already posted an enormous launch-era spike. SteamDB charts put the game’s all-time peak at 1,054,388 concurrent players on December 10, 2020, during its release period. The current numbers are nowhere near that launch frenzy, but they are well above the game’s steady baseline and high enough to show how quickly a recognizable single-player hit can come back to life when the barrier to entry drops.
That price cut is doing a lot of the work. Steam lists Cyberpunk 2077 at 70 percent off, and the sale window runs through July 9 at 10 a.m. PT. In practice, that means the game is not just sitting in front of lapsed players as a comeback story. It is sitting in front of them as a cheap, high-profile purchase at the exact moment curiosity is easiest to act on.
CD PROJEKT RED has kept the game in circulation with a steady stream of post-launch support, and that support has clearly helped keep the brand warm between discounts. The studio said on December 10, 2025, that Cyberpunk 2077 had sold 35 million copies. Its July 17, 2025 Update 2.3 added four new vehicles, AutoDrive, self-driving Delamain cabs, Photo Mode changes, and PC support for AMD FSR 3.1 Frame Generation, Intel XeSS 2.0, and HDR10+ Gaming. The game has also expanded through Phantom Liberty, releases on Nintendo Switch 2 and Apple silicon Mac models, and a fully native port on Apple devices that arrived in July 2025.
The franchise is still moving beyond the base game, too. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has been officially announced as a standalone 10-episode series set in the same world and is scheduled to air in Fall 2026 on Netflix. Even with that broader momentum, the clearest proof of Cyberpunk 2077’s second life is on Steam itself: a deep discount is still enough to send players flooding back into Night City.
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