Mike Pondsmith hints Cyberpunk 2077’s sequel will feature a new city to explore
Project Orion is still shrouded in mystery, but one thing’s clear: we’ll be leaving Night City. Looks like there’ll be a whole new place to burn.
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At the Cyberpunk 2077. He revealed that players will finally get to leave the iconic Night City and dive into a new urban setting.
Cyberpunk sequel may leave Night City
Digital Dragons is one of Europe’s top B2B events for the video game industry, put together by the Krakow Technology Park. This year’s edition ran from May 18 to 20, 2025, at the ICE Krakow Congress Center. One of this year’s guests was Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the Cyberpunk tabletop game series, which later inspired Cyberpunk 2077 developed by CD Project RED.
In a chat with Michal Manka (formerly of TVGRY, now with Find Your Next Game by GameStar), Pondsmith mentioned that we’ll be visiting “another city” in the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel – but he quickly added that he couldn’t say much more. He didn’t drop a name or give any details, so it kind of felt like something that slipped out by accident. The interview is also available to watch on TVGRY YouTube channel as part of the Digital Dragons stream.
There’s already been a rumor floating around for a while that the city in the sequel could be Chicago, mainly because some posters in Cyberpunk 2077 mention it. One even says, “Travel from Chicago to Night City in under three hours, coming in 2080.” So, could this be a small hint that the rumor’s actually true? At one point, he even described it specifically as “Chicago gone wrong.”
We’re still a long way off from knowing for sure. After all, the next Cyberpunk game is still going by the codename “Project Orion” and doesn’t even have a rough release date. But who’s going to stop us from a little wild speculation? Especially when all the pieces seem to be falling into place.
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