Games like Cyberpunk 2077
The three best games after Cyberpunk 2077 are The Witcher 3 (the same studio's other masterpiece, and the better writing), Deus Ex: Human Revolution (the cyberpunk immersive sim Cyberpunk borrows its best missions from) and Dying Light 2 (first-person open-world traversal with the city as playground). Ten games ranked by which part of Night City they rebuild — and one that only looks like it does.
Cyberpunk 2077 finished its redemption arc: 87% positive across 973,000 reviews, with the recent score higher, and Phantom Liberty standing among the best expansions ever shipped. What people actually miss after it varies — some want the augmented-infiltration sandbox, some the neon sadness, some just a dense city that isn't a checklist.
This list labels each pick by which of those it serves. One entry is a deliberate skip: the game that shares Cyberpunk's scale ambitions and almost nothing else that matters.
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How we picked these
- A city or world with density — verticality, interiors, crowds — not acreage.
- Player expression: multiple real routes through a mission or build.
- Tone with a point of view, whether neon-noir or something adjacent.
- First-person or close-third immersion where the world stays in your face.
- Complete experiences — post-patch, post-expansion, judged as they are today.
The list
01 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The obvious answer, ranked first without apology: the same studio's defining game, with quest writing Cyberpunk itself only occasionally reaches. Swap implants for potions and Night City for Velen — the DNA of small human stories inside a huge world is identical. If you somehow have not played it, stop reading lists.
02 Deus Ex: Human Revolution
The immersive-sim ancestor Cyberpunk's stealth-hacker builds descend from: every mission a building with four ways in, augments as a build language, and a 2011 gold-and-black aesthetic that still owns 'corporate cyberpunk'. 92% positive a decade on. Mankind Divided continues it with better systems and a colder reception — get both eventually.
03 Dying Light 2
The traversal pick: a first-person city where parkour makes the space itself the gameplay, day-night cycles flip the power balance, and faction choices redraw districts. Writing is a tier below CDPR's; moment-to-moment movement is a tier above. 79% positive, trending up since the Reloaded edition.
04 Ghostrunner
Night City's speed fantasy with everything else cut away: one-hit kills both directions, wall-running katana platforming, synthwave pressure. A short, dense campaign of pure execution — the game for people whose favourite Cyberpunk build was 'Sandevistan, no brakes'. 91% positive.
05 NieR: Automata
The melancholy pick: androids sifting the ruins of human meaning, a story that uses three playthrough perspectives as its actual structure, and the best soundtrack on this page. Combat is stylish-loose rather than tactical. It hits the same 'what makes a person' nerve Cyberpunk pokes with Johnny — then goes further. 87% positive.
06 The Ascent
Flagged honestly at 74%: a twin-stick shooter, not an RPG, with co-op jank and difficulty spikes. It is on this list anyway because its arcology is the single densest cyberpunk environment ever rendered — layered walkways, crowds, grime and neon that make screenshots look prerendered. Buy it as a place, on sale, with a friend.
07 Watch Dogs 2
The sunlit counter-argument: San Francisco hacking sandbox where drones, gadgets and social engineering give every mission a no-gun solution Cyberpunk only gestures at. Ubisoft-formula bones, but the emergent chaos toolkit is real — 82% positive and reliably a few euros.
SKIP08 Starfield
Skip if Night City's density is what you loved — Starfield spreads its content across loading screens and procedural planets, and at 57% positive on Steam the disappointment is measurable, not a meme. For handcrafted first-person RPG density, Cyberpunk's own Phantom Liberty district outdoes it; failing that, Deus Ex does more with one city block than Starfield does with a thousand planets.
09 Fallout 4
The other big first-person RPG city — retro-futurist instead of chrome, with the strongest environmental storytelling in Bethesda's catalogue and a settlement layer Cyberpunk lacks entirely. Dialogue depth took the hit; exploration compulsion did not. 81% positive across 428,000 reviews, and endlessly modded.
10 Titanfall 2
Not cyberpunk — but the campaign is the best pure first-person action Cyberpunk players usually haven't played: wall-running time-travel set-pieces, a robot with more heart than most human casts, all in an afternoon-sized package at 96% positive. The palate cleanser that ends up a favourite.
Similar but different
Disco Elysium
The other great dying-world RPG — all the political rot and human wreckage, zero gunplay. If Cyberpunk's quiet apartment scenes hit hardest, this is your next hundred hours of reading.
Stray
A neon slum-city explored at ankle height, by a cat. Short, wordless-ish, and it nails the 'walled city' cyberpunk atmosphere many bigger games chase. 97% positive.
Half-Life: Alyx
If you own a VR headset, the most convincing dystopian city presence ever built — City 17's oppression at arm's length. The benchmark Cyberpunk's immersion gets compared against.
FAQ
What is genuinely the closest game to Cyberpunk 2077?
Nothing matches its exact mix; Deus Ex: Human Revolution is closest in genre (cyberpunk immersive RPG), The Witcher 3 closest in soul (same studio, same quest philosophy). Decide which half you miss and pick accordingly.
Should I just replay Cyberpunk with Phantom Liberty instead?
If you finished the base game before the 2.0 systems rework, honestly — yes. The rebuilt perks, police and cyberware plus Dogtown amount to the biggest 'new game' on this page for anyone whose save predates 2023.
Is The Ascent worth it at 74% positive?
At full price, no. On a deep sale, as co-op with a friend who values atmosphere over polish — it delivers a cyberpunk place nothing else does. Know that it is a twin-stick shooter before paying.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution or Mankind Divided?
Human Revolution first — the complete arc, the iconic tone, 92% positive. Mankind Divided has the better gameplay and an unresolved cliffhanger ending; it works best already knowing you are getting half a story told brilliantly.
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