‘We’re competing with ourselves’: CD Projekt Red on its ethos for Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC

CD Projekt Red is known for putting out quality DLC. The Witcher 3’s Blood and Wine is considered a must-play by most fans, so the studio has much to live up to with the upcoming Phantom Liberty. This is the one and only expansion for Cyberpunk 2077, and it will only be launching on PC and current-gen consoles, not PS4 and Xbox One, even though the game originally launched on those platforms.

However, CD Projekt Red is well aware of its legacy. “We’re competing with ourselves,” Despoina Anetaki told us, a quest designer at CD Projekt Red. During our talk with her at Summer Game Fest 2023, she told us the team has been focused on crafting an interesting story within the spy-thriller genre, something it doesn’t believe we see in video games very often.