Between netflix and CD Project Red, the idyll seems to continue. After allowing The Witcher 3 to experience a resurgence in popularity following the release of the series The Witcher on the SVOD service, history seems to repeat itself for Cyberpunk 2077. Last week, Netflix uploaded the anime cyberpunk edge runnersa series produced by the talented studio trigger, which visibly won over the public. The rave reviews around the anime have obviously allowed the game to regain statistics that it had not known since its launch.
The game benefits from the excellent reception of the anime
According to SteamDB, Cyberpunk 2077 topped last week’s best-selling games on Steamahead of pre-orders of Call of Duty Modern Warfare II. A performance that is necessarily linked to the dissemination of cyberpunk edge runnersespecially when we look closely at the attendance curve of the game.
We can see that as soon as the last Night City Wire was broadcast, the game started to pick up the slack, but it’s since September 13 and especially last weekend that Cyberpunk 2077 experienced a big peak in attendance, with a record with more than 85,000 people connected to the game (on Steam), which hadn’t happened since the game’s first month of launch.
cyberpunk edge runners is therefore a very nice showcase for the game, which is now better received than in the past thanks to the many patches that have corrected major problems. The studio must therefore rub its hands and consolidate the idea of ​​developing this universe via transmedia. It must also actively prepare for the release of Phantom Liberty, the expansion that should allow the game to gain new momentum, at least if it is as successful as the series Edgerunners.