Cyberpunk category
Story Guides
18 entries tagged Story Guides, 18 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Story Explained: Full Plot, Every Ending and What It Means and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Explained: Story, Ending and How It Connects to 2077.
- Every Cyberpunk 2077 Ending Explained, Including Phantom LibertyAll of Cyberpunk 2077's endings in one place: The Devil, The Star, The Sun, Temperance, the secret ending, the suicide ending and Phantom Liberty's The Tower. How each one is unlocked, what happens to V, and what it all means.
- Cyberpunk 2077 Lifepaths Explained: Nomad, Street Kid and CorpoCyberpunk 2077's three lifepaths, Nomad, Street Kid and Corpo, decide V's opening chapter, open a private side job and add dialogue all the way to the endings. Here's what happens in each prologue, how each one colours the story, and what changes at the end.
- Cyberpunk 2077 Story Explained: the Heist, the Relic and Johnny SilverhandThe whole story of Cyberpunk 2077 in order, from V and Jackie's job at Konpeki Plaza to the race to get Johnny Silverhand out of V's head before he takes over. Every act, every main thread and how the endings come together.
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Episode Guide: All 10 Episodes ExplainedAll ten episodes of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners came out on Netflix on 13 September 2022. Here's every episode in order with its official title, what happens, and the moment that matters most, from David's first Sandevistan rush to the last scene on the Moon.
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Explained: Story, Ending and How It Connects to 2077Edgerunners follows David Martinez from a dead-end Arasaka Academy scholarship to the top of Arasaka Tower in ten episodes. Here's the whole story, what the ending means for David and Lucy, and every way the anime ties into Cyberpunk 2077, from Rebecca's shotgun to David's jacket.
- The Tarot in Cyberpunk 2077: Misty's Cards and the EndingsCyberpunk 2077 hides tarot murals across Night City, Misty reads V's cards, and every ending is named after one: The Devil, The Star, The Sun, Temperance, The Tower and Phantom Liberty's four Kings. Here's where the cards are, what each one means in the game, and what Misty draws for V at the end.
- How Did Johnny Silverhand Die?Johnny Silverhand died during the raid on Arasaka Tower on 20 August 2023, but the two versions of the story disagree on how. The tabletop books have Adam Smasher kill him in the tower. Cyberpunk 2077 has him captured and run through Soulkiller. Here are both.
- How Did Johnny Silverhand Get a Nuke?Johnny Silverhand didn't get the nuke himself. It came with the Militech-backed raid on Arasaka Tower in 2023, as a small tactical bomb meant to destroy Arasaka's database. The tabletop books say so outright; Cyberpunk 2077 just puts it in his helicopter.
- How Did Johnny Silverhand Get Into the Relic?Arasaka captured Johnny in 2023, copied his mind with Soulkiller and kept the engram in Mikoshi for decades. Then Anders Hellman loaded it onto the Relic 2.0 prototype, the chip V ends up with after the Konpeki Plaza heist. Here's each step, and how the tabletop differs.
- Is Johnny Silverhand Evil?Not quite, but he is no hero. Johnny is a selfish, violent egomaniac who, in Cyberpunk 2077's version, nuked Arasaka Tower. He also really does hate the corporations that run Night City, and if V lets him, he changes. Here is the case against him, the case for him, and what the game itself says.
- Is Johnny Silverhand in Phantom Liberty?Yes. Johnny Silverhand is in Phantom Liberty, still living in V's head and still played by Keanu Reeves. He has a smaller part than in the main story, because the expansion belongs to Songbird and Solomon Reed, but his fate is tied to its biggest choice.
- Every Phantom Liberty Ending Explained: The Four Kings and The TowerPhantom Liberty has four endings, King of Wands, King of Swords, King of Cups and King of Pentacles, and two of them lead to The Tower, the only ending in Cyberpunk 2077 that cures V. Here's which choices lead where, what happens to Songbird, Reed and V in each, and which one is best for V.
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Story Explained: Full Plot, Every Ending and What It MeansPhantom Liberty drops V into Dogtown to save the President of the New United States, then makes them choose between a dying netrunner and the spy who wants to bring her home. Here's the whole story in order, all four endings, and how The Tower ending changes V's fate.
- What Happened to Johnny Silverhand's Body?In Cyberpunk 2077, Arasaka dumped Johnny Silverhand's body in an unmarked grave in the oil fields outside Night City after Soulkiller took his mind. The tabletop books hint at something stranger. Here's what each version says, and what V can find.
- What Happens to V at the End of Cyberpunk 2077?It depends on your choice on Misty's rooftop. In every base-game ending where V keeps their body, V has about six months to live. Only Phantom Liberty's The Tower saves V, at a heavy price. Here is what happens to V in each ending.
- Who Is Johnny Silverhand to V?Johnny Silverhand is the dead rockerboy living in V's head: a copy of his mind on the Relic chip, which saved V's life and is now overwriting V with Johnny. He starts as V's enemy and can end as V's closest friend. Here is how their bond works and where it can end.
- Why Did David Martinez Go Cyberpsycho?David went cyberpsycho because he kept piling military chrome onto his body to become the man Maine was, refused every chance to downgrade, and ended up in Arasaka's prototype cyberskeleton. Here is how Cyberpunk: Edgerunners shows it, step by step.
- Why Did Johnny Silverhand Nuke Arasaka Tower?In Cyberpunk 2077 Johnny arms the bomb himself during the 2023 raid he joined to free Alt Cunningham. The tabletop books tell it differently: the nuke was Militech's, and Johnny was already dead when it went off. Here are both versions and why the game says not to trust his.