Yesterday, Cyberpunk 2077 added a new Edgerunners update which included new clothes, weapons and features like transmog and cross-progression between platforms. It’s also the first update since launch to give us actual new Gig missions, just a few, but it’s something.

However, one problem remains with all of these Cyberpunk 2077 updates ahead of the upcoming expansion, Phantom Liberty, due out in 2023. With so many fixes and combat overhauls and new gear, there remains…essentially nothing to actually do with them because for whatever reason, Cyberpunk 2077 still does not offer the option for New Game Plus.

If you’ve beaten Cyberpunk 2077, which I have all the way back in December 2020 when it launched, there is very, very little to actually do in the game if you return to it now. Nothing is replayable. You’ve cleaned up the crime from the streets, you’ve completed all the side missions and so Night City becomes pretty dead. Like thank you, for this new explosive sniper rifle and cross-progression, but there’s just nothing to do with all this. Cyberpunk 2077 is not a live game, these few new Gigs, which probably won’t take you longer than 30-40 minutes in total, are about it. And that’s the biggest update the game has seen in practically two years now.

Cyberpunk 2077’s updates have been fine for those who maybe quit the game early or got into it late, but fans who played it and beat it near the start continue to wonder why of all the features that have been added to the game, New Game Plus is not among them. It’s even leaked out in the line list of free DLC items coming to the game, and essentially all of those other ones have come to pass, except this one. And it was not mentioned in the recent stream, with future talking about updates to cop AI and new cyberware. Again, good additions, but not really if you’ve already beaten everything. Everyone essentially just has to sit and wait for the DLC to see most of the last two years of changes in action.

The idea of New Game Plus is to start the entire campaign over, but you usually retain your gear and leveling progress, taking on old content in a fresh way, and probably upping the difficulty for the second or third runs to compensate. I would even take something akin to a soft New Game Plus, where even if the main campaign didn’t start over, you could reset all the crimes in the city or all the Gigs, so you could at least have people to fight other than disappearing cops and random groups of three street thugs clustered together. Trying to earn money to buy new stuff once you’ve beaten everything, outside of now-patched glitches, is deeply annoying.

I very much praise the work CDPR has done on Cyberpunk 2077 since launch and they have added a lot of cool things. And yet I don’t know what’s going on with New Game Plus here, as there has to be some sort of technical problem getting it to work somehow, because there’s just no explanation for why it hasn’t arrive yet when it’s like the standard post-launch update for any game in this genre.

Update: Here’s some commentary on how New Game Plus is indeed very difficult to do:

But again, almost every other game does it! And you could not rebalance the entire game with things like resetting street crimes or gigs.

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