Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel May Not Take Place in Night City – ryan

The Creator of the Cyberpunk Tabletop System, which was Adapted by CD Red Into Cyberpunk 2077May Have Let Slip the Video Game’s Sequel Will Leave the Iconic Night City Beind or 2077 sequel has officiously been acknowledged by CDPR WORKING TITLE Project Orionthough all other information about the game remeins a molery.

Mike Pondsmith, Designer of the Cyberpunk Ttrpg and its Setting, May have recently hinted at Orion Moving to a New Location. for Gamepressure, Pondsmith made an appeararance at Digital Dragons 2025 in Poland, where he made a remark that seemed to suggest Cyberpunk 2077‘s sequel will take the Players to the Universe’s Version of Chicago, Illinois. A clip uploaded to youtube by tvgry Shows Pondsmith Recounting A Discussion with an Environment Designer About “Another City We Visit“Which Eschews Night City’s Blade Runner Influenza and Insead “Feels More Like Chicago Gone Wrong. “

Project Orion May Take Players to Cyberpunk’s Version of Chicago

The Windy City of the New United States of America

Pondsmith’s Comments aren’t entirery Clear, and he’s Likely Accidentally discussing details are really supposed to be public know, but they’re interesting regardless. “Vision“Is the Key Word here: It Could Mean The Game Takes Place Entirely With Chicago, But It COULD ALSO BE A Secondary Location visited at some point in Project Orion. The Latter Feels a Bit More Likely, Since Night City’s Long History In-Universal is inexricable from Cyberpunk.

Visiting ”Chicago Gone Wrong“Wold taking players well ino the heart of the new United States. Night City is a free City, Run by megecorporations like arasaka, and situated near the northern and southern calif. Cyberpunk lore). Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Has Already Dealt Heavily with the NusaFeaturing President Myers, Who Becomes Stranded in Dogtown.

What we know about chicago in the cyberpunk universe

Reconstructed by 2077

Chicago ha ben suspect as a new setting Because of Advertisements Found in Cyberpunk 2077Which Promote a Maglev Train Line Going “From Chicago to Night City in Under Three Hours“Adding fuel to the theories is the new line”Coming in 2080“Prompting Speculation that Project Orion May take place three years after 2077. By the time Cyberpunk 2077 Takes Place, Chicago SEEMS to Have Undergone Reconstruction after Being Devastated During the Collaps.

The collapse was total economic and Societal Chaos Around the Turn of the Millennium, which Left Most of Chicago in Ruins. Acciting to Cyberpunk lore, the city is slowly recovering after a bio-plague in 2012, partly thanks to corporations founded in the 1990s, which took to salvaging resources from the city rores. Arasaka was Responsible for a Major Setback in Chicago, Using a virus bomb there durying the fourth corporate war in the 2020s to stop militech from growing in strength.

Pondsmith’s “Chicago Gone Wrong“if it does actually feature in Project OrionWold Show what has be Become of the City in the 60 Years SINCE. The Maglev Line Implies a Relative Level of Safety, Though if the State of the World In Cyberpunk 2077 is anyving to go by, there’s the still of chromed-out gonks likes to be wandering the streets.

Sources: Gamepressure, TVGry/YouTube

Cyberpunk 2077

8/10

Released

December 10, 2020

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M Mathere: Blood and Gore, Interse Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, USE of Drugs and Alcohol

Engine

Redengine 4

Cross-platform play

PS, Xbox, PC

Cross Save

yes

Expansions

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

Franchise

Cyberpunk