RPG
Cyberpunk 2077
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 40% of players who started
Started playing 88% of owners
Steam reviews 87% positive of 988,257
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (41%); after 35h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- 40% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “The Fool” (Become a mercenary) and “The Lovers” (Steal the Relic): from 100% to 76% of starters.
- 88% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 991,379 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 5,478 reviews: 38.1h for positive, 15.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (88.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The Fool Become a mercenary. 100%
- The Lovers Steal the Relic. Most players quit here 76% −24
- The Wheel of Fortune Interrogate Anders Hellman. 61% −15
- The Hermit Find Alt Cunningham. 57% −4
- The High Priestess Talk with Hanako Arasaka. 51% −6
- The World Complete the main storyline. 40% −11
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by hand.
All achievements (57)
story milestone ending side
- The Fool Become a mercenary. 100%
- The Lovers Steal the Relic. 76%
- Right Back At Ya Kill or incapacitate an enemy who threw a grenade at you. 74%
- The Wheel of Fortune Interrogate Anders Hellman. 61%
- Stanislavski's Method Use a dialogue option related to V's life path 10 times. 58%
- The Hermit Find Alt Cunningham. 57%
- True Soldier Kill or incapacitate 300 enemies using ranged weapons. 53%
- The High Priestess Talk with Hanako Arasaka. 51%
- Full Body Conversion Install at least one implant in each system and body part. 48%
- Christmas Tree Attack Complete a Breach Protocol with a minimum of 3 daemons uploaded. 48%
- Legend of The Afterlife Reach max Street Cred. 47%
- Life of the Road Complete Panam Palmer's storyline. 45%
- Gun Fu Kill or incapacitate 3 enemies in quick succession with a revolver or pistol in close combat. 42%
- The World Complete the main storyline. 40%
- Bushido and Chill Watch Bushido X with Rogue. 37%
- True Warrior Kill or incapacitate 100 enemies using melee weapons. 36%
- Master Crafter Craft 3 Legendary items. 35%
- Judy vs Night City Complete Judy Alvarez's storyline. 33%
- Two Heads, One Bullet Kill or incapacitate 2 enemies with the same sniper rifle shot. 31%
- To Protect and Serve Complete River Ward's storyline. 30%
- The Quick and the Dead Kill or incapacitate 50 enemies while time is slowed. 30%
- All the President's Men Save President Myers. 28%
- Arachnophobia Defeat the Chimera. 28%
- I Am The Law Complete all Cyberpsycho Sightings. 28%
- The Wandering Fool Find all the tarot graffiti for the job Fool on the Hill. 24%
- Ten out of Ten Reach the max level in any skill. 22%
- Breathtaking Collect all items that once belonged to Johnny Silverhand. 19%
- The Sun Become a legend of the Afterlife. 19%
- V for Vendetta After reviving with Second Heart, kill or incapacitate the enemy who killed you within 5 seconds. 19%
- The Star Leave Night City with the Aldecaldos. 19%
- To Bad Decisions! Complete Kerry Eurodyne's storyline. 18%
- Spin Doctor Complete “Run This Town”. 16%
- Temperance Let Johnny Silverhand keep your body. 14%
- Must Be Rats Perform the Distract Enemies quickhack 30 times without drawing attention to yourself. 13%
- Easy Come, Easy Go Steal the Arasaka medical truck or deliver 10 vehicles to El Capitan. 13%
- King of Wands Take Songbird to the stars. 12%
- The Jungle Complete all gigs and NCPD Scanner Hustles in Santo Domingo. 11%
- Dirty Deeds Complete every Gig in Dogtown. 11%
- Mean Streets Complete all gigs and NCPD Scanner Hustles in Heywood. 10%
- Gunslinger Shoot an enemy grenade in midair with a revolver. 10%
- Frequent Flyer Find all fast travel dataterms. 10%
- City Lights Complete all gigs and NCPD Scanner Hustles in City Center. 10%
- It's Elementary Complete all gigs and NCPD Scanner Hustles in Watson. 9.7%
- Greetings from Pacifica! Complete all gigs and NCPD Scanner Hustles in Pacifica. 8.9%
- Little Tokyo Complete all gigs and NCPD Scanner Hustles in Westbrook. 8.8%
- Autojock Buy all vehicles available for purchase. 8.7%
- The APB is Not Enough Become Dogtown's most wanted criminal. 8.3%
- The Devil Help Takemura avenge the death of Saburo Arasaka. 8.3%
- The Wasteland Complete all gigs and NCPD Scanner Hustles in the Badlands. 8.1%
- Relic Ruler Unlock all Perks in the Relic Perk tree. 8.1%
- Rough Landing While Berserk cyberware is active, perform a Superhero Landing to kill or incapacitate 2 enemies. 7.6%
- Judgement Day Eliminate three bosses from the "Increased criminal activity" category. 7.2%
- The Tower Complete "Things Done Changed". 7.2%
- King of Swords Take Songbird home. 7.0%
- Daemon In The Shell Kill or incapacitate 3 enemies with one "Detonate Grenade" quickhack. 6.8%
- King of Pentacles Refuse Songbird's request. 6.6%
- King of Cups Fulfill Songbird's request. 5.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.