Cyberpunk 2077 devs promise explorable tall buildings with 'a lot of activities'

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"The world can be huge, but it can be huge upwards, or downwards."

CD Projekt Red's upcoming RPG Cyberpunk 2077 is going to have a huge world—but just how big will it be compared to The Witcher 3? One curious fan asked the developer on Facebook, and although it couldn't say the exact size, it did reveal that "many" of the tall buildings within Night City, the fictional Northern California setting, will be explorable and will house "a lot of activities".

You'll be able to explore multiple floors within some of those buildings, CD Projekt Red said in the Facebook conversation, which was posted on Reddit. "In a tall building, and we will have many of them explorable, each floor can house a lot of activities," it explained.

It said The Witcher 3 will look "much flatter" in comparison, and its activities scattered. "Here, the world can be huge, but it can be huge upwards, or downwards."

It's not a surprise to hear that Night City will have explorable buildings—it would've been a disappointment if it didn't—but it's good to know it's a point of focus for CD Projekt Red. 

For everything you need to know about Cyberpunk 2077, and to watch gameplay footage, click here.

Samuel Horti
Samuel Horti

Samuel is a freelance journalist and editor who first wrote for PC Gamer nearly a decade ago. Since then he's had stints as a VR specialist, mouse reviewer, and previewer of promising indie games, and is now regularly writing about Fortnite. What he loves most is longer form, interview-led reporting, whether that's Ken Levine on the one phone call that saved his studio, Tim Schafer on a milkman joke that inspired Psychonauts' best level, or historians on what Anno 1800 gets wrong about colonialism. He's based in London.