Who Was Johnny Silverhand's Girlfriend? Alt and Rogue

Johnny Silverhand's girlfriend was Alt Cunningham, the best netrunner in Night City in the 2000s and 2010s, and the Cyberpunk Wiki lists her as his girlfriend in his infobox. Rogue Amendiares was an earlier one, and that relationship ended in 2011. (Cyberpunk Wiki; Cyberpunk 2077)

Alt Cunningham#

Alt was a netrunner and programmer working for ITS, a corporation, when she met Johnny, and the two began a relationship. She developed the human and AI transfer program that ITS turned into the weapon known as Soulkiller. Their story is older than the video game. The wiki sources the 2013 raid to the tabletop adventure Never Fade Away, which first appeared in the Welcome to Night City booklet for Cyberpunk 2013, and Alt is also in Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk RED. (Alt Cunningham, Cyberpunk Wiki; Cyberpunk 2013)

In 2013 Arasaka had her kidnapped so she could rebuild the software for them. Johnny was hurt in the ambush, then put together a strike team and used a free Samurai concert as a diversion to reach her. The raid ended with Alt separated from her body, which died, while her digital self remained in the Arasaka network. (Johnny Silverhand and Alt Cunningham, Cyberpunk Wiki)

She turns up again in 2023 and 2077. In 2023 Johnny went back to Arasaka Tower, and the wiki gives freeing Alt as his personal reason for joining Militech's raid. In Cyberpunk 2077 V reaches her behind the Blackwall with Johnny's engram, and she tells them she's only an image of Alt. (Cyberpunk Wiki; Cyberpunk 2077)

Rogue Amendiares#

Rogue began as a young solo in Night City and started a relationship with Johnny when he was a hit rockerboy. She sometimes asked him to take her to a drive-in theatre on a date, and he largely ignored her. (Rogue Amendiares, Cyberpunk Wiki)

It ended in 2011, the date the wiki sources to the adventure Never Fade Away, and she found out he'd been cheating on her, which the wiki sources to the Cyberpunk 2077 quest of the same name. Mike Pondsmith has said in an interview that one reason Johnny ended it was that she was pregnant with their child. She struggled to move on, and later teamed up with Nomad Santiago and had an on-and-off relationship with Maximum Mike. (Rogue Amendiares, Cyberpunk Wiki)

She still helped with the 2013 raid, though she held a sour spot for Johnny, and she was on the 2023 team as well. Pondsmith has said Rogue and Johnny are modelled on a couple he knew in college. Rogue appears in Cyberpunk 2013, Cyberpunk 2020, Cyberpunk RED and Cyberpunk 2077. (Cyberpunk Wiki)

What about everyone else?#

The wiki's infobox lists several unnamed ex-girlfriends alongside Rogue and Alt, so there were others and the sources don't name them. In Cyberpunk 2077's database, the line about him is that a rockerboy can be legendary without "one toxic relationship after another," but Johnny is old school. (Johnny Silverhand, Cyberpunk Wiki; Cyberpunk 2077)

Samurai bandmates are a separate matter. A shard in Cyberpunk 2077 says Johnny slept with Kerry and Henry alike so they'd stay in Samurai. The wiki lists it among the stories told about him and notes the shard can be read as confirmation, while in the quest Holdin' On the engram denies it about Kerry Eurodyne. I wouldn't count either of them as a partner. (Cyberpunk 2077; Cyberpunk Wiki)

Johnny and Rogue in Cyberpunk 2077#

If V invites Rogue on a date for Johnny in Blistering Love, they go to the Silver Pixel Cloud drive-in, the one she wanted to visit when they were young. Johnny takes over V's body and kisses her. Rogue stops it and says too much has changed to pretend. (Cyberpunk 2077)

That scene is the closest the game comes to giving Johnny a girlfriend again, and it ends with a no. It's one of the better moments in the game for me, and that is my opinion, not a source.

Canon Notes#

The Cyberpunk Wiki doesn't line up with itself on the night Alt was taken. Johnny's entry has the kidnapping on 4 August 2013 after a concert at The Hammer, and calls Alt his former girlfriend at that point. Alt's entry gives 15 April 2013, as she left a concert with her boyfriend. I can't tell you which is right, and I'd treat the year as solid and the day as uncertain. (Johnny Silverhand and Alt Cunningham, Cyberpunk Wiki)

Johnny's own memories are the other trouble. The wiki records Alt as saying his memories of 2013 and 2023 are a warped account, and Pondsmith has called Johnny an unreliable narrator, so what the game shows of the two of them is his version. Pondsmith's own summary is that in 2013 Johnny attacked Arasaka purely to save Alt. For how that plays out in the tower, see how Johnny died, why he nuked Arasaka Tower, and who Johnny is to V. (Johnny Silverhand, Cyberpunk Wiki; Cyberpunk 2077)