After two and a half years, Cyberpunk 2077 has hit the "very positive" rank of Steam user reviews. While it was launched to mixed reviews depending on the hardware that PC fans were playing on, a stream of updates has improved Cyberpunk 2077, and Steam reviewers have reflected the change.
Though it was originally released in a buggy state for consoles that was also later rectified, Cyberpunk 2077 was always in a relatively playable state on PC. Responding to the initial controversy, CD Projekt Red remained dedicated to fixing Cyberpunk 2077 with six consecutive months of patches that fixed various bugs. Just as the other versions of Cyberpunk 2077 were improved upon as the CD Projekt Red road map unfolded, Steam players also benefited, which contributed to making the game's performance basically optimal as of now.
Cyberpunk 2077 has reached a Steam very positive ranking based on 546, 333 user reviews, putting the "mostly positive" days behind it. Cyberpunk 2077 formerly had this ranking among Steam reviewers, with PC gamers that originally gave it a thumbs-down not always adjusting the grade based on patches that have dropped over the 2.5 years. CD Projekt Red Global Community Director Marcin Momot celebrated the milestone with a tweet thanking the Cyberpunk 2077 Steam audience for the acknowledgment of the team's hard work.
Because PlayStation pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from its shop based on the RPG's performance in its early days, the storefront wasn't flooded with as many negative reviews as others. Steam and other PC storefronts kept the game listed because of its better performance on the platform, while Xbox continued to make it available for Xbox One X owners and early Xbox Series X/S adopters. The PlayStation Store reinstated Cyberpunk 2077 in June 2021, which is when the gamer was largely considered fixed by user reviewers. With Cyberpunk 2077 players on Steam and other platforms celebrating the CD Projekt Red game, the Phantom Liberty DLC may improve things further when it releases later this year.
One contributing factor to Cyberpunk 2077 receiving so many positive reviews on Steam may be the frequency that it often gets a price reduction, regularly being a front-runner of seasonal sales. Although Cyberpunk 2077 has reached "very positive" on Steam, it will still need to get many more thumbs-up reviews to become the coveted overwhelmingly positive. Steam users may have warmed up to the game, but the Metacritic user score for Cyberpunk 2077 still only sits at a "mixed" seven out of ten based on 33,421 ratings.
Cyberpunk 2077 is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Video Games Chronicle
