There are 7 endings in Cyberpunk 2077, including one from the Phantom Liberty expansion. Every Cyberpunk 2077 ending can be found below, along with how to acquire them, and a detailed explanation of each so that players can get closure on V's story, no matter what path they take. All endings in Cyberpunk 2077 are unique and tell their own story, so why not check in below to see how to get every ending, and what all of them do so that you can find the perfect canon ending for your V.
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Ending |
Summary |
Requirements |
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The Path of Least Resistance |
V kills themselves on the rooftop instead of fighting to Mikoshi. |
Choose dialogue: "Could also put all this to rest" in Nocturne Op55N1 |
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The Devil |
V helps Saburo Arasaka take control over his company, only to be told there is no cure. |
(Optional) Save Takemura in Search and Destroy Call Hanako in Nocturne Op55N1 Take Omega-Blockers |
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The Star |
V and the Aldecaldos infiltrate Arasaka, and then leave Night City behind together. |
Complete Panam's final side quest, Queen of the Highway Call Panam for help in Nocturne op55N1 In Mikoshi, enter the well as V |
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Temperance |
V reaches Mikoshi, but realises there is no cure, so they give their body to Johnny Silverhand, who starts a new life away from Night City. |
Complete Rogue or Panam's side quests Call Rogue or Panam for help in Nocturne Op55N1 In Mikoshi, cross the bridge with Alt as V / enter the well as Johnny |
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The Sun |
Rogue dies, but V takes over the Afterlife as a Legend, and works with Mr. Blue Eyes to go out in a blaze of glory, or perhaps find a cure. |
Complete Rogue's final side quest, Blistering Love. Follow Johnny's plan to let him ask Rogue for help in Nocturne Op55N1 Take the pseudoendotrizine In Mikoshi, cross the bridge with Alt as Johnny |
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The Secret Ending |
V and Johnny Silverhand infiltrate Arasaka to reach Mikoshi, but the ending is a choice between giving Johnny V's body, or staying in Night City as a Legend to work with Mr. Blue Eyes. |
Complete Johnny's side quest, Chippin' In with these dialogue options "Nah, ###### that up too.", "What do you want from me?", "Ok. But as second chances go, this is your last." Don't call anyone in Nocturne Op55N1, but wait 5 minutes in real time |
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The Tower |
Solomon Reed remains true to his promise and takes V to Langley, where they are successfully cured, but at the cost of a 2-year coma, where everyone has moved on, and V becomes allergic to cyberware. |
Requires Phantom Liberty Help Solomon Reed capture Songbird in Firestarter / The Killing Moon Accept Reed's offer in Through Pain to Heaven Call Solomon Reed in Nocturne Op55N1 or Who Wants to Live Forever |
7 Path of Least Resistance Ending, Explained
V Gives Up By Taking Life Into Their Own Hands
- V commits suicide to spare their friends from danger, and to make decisions with their own mind before it's lost forever.
The Path of Least Resistance is an ending path that will abruptly end the game and roll credits, but not before giving Johnny Silverhand and V their final goodbye. The two share a moment on Misty's rooftop, where V, still in control of their own body, decides that there's no hope for a cure, nor a path forward that doesn't involve someone getting hurt or killed, that isn't themselves. V uses the gun given to them by Misty to shoot themselves in the head, killing both them and Johnny Silverhand. V's decision is understood by Johnny, even if it's not what he wants, and it's a way for V to control their fate and not put their faith in someone else. The credits roll, and friends of V express great grief over their untimely suicide.
6 The Devil Ending, Explained
V Let's Arasaka Take the Wheel, Despite Johnny's Warning
- V surrenders their life to Arasaka, making a choice to return to Earth for their final days, or become an engram to live forever as a digital yet lonely construct.
Seeing Hanako Arasaka as a lifeline, V betrays Johnny Silverhand and their friends to follow a corporation that's done nothing but bad things for the world. V is an unknowing pawn and helps to reverse the patricide of Saburo Arasaka's death by helping Hanako take control of Arasaka. Mikoshi is never destroyed, and Johnny never gets to reunite with Alt. V's reward sees them placed in a secret lab in an Arasaka space station, where Arasaka scientists pluck at V's brain in an attempt to remove the Relic. V suffers permanent damage to their brain, and removal of the Relic is unsuccessful. Even Hanako Arasaka has forgotten V, proving that she was never out to help this merc. There's a final decision for V to take on board the space station: return to Earth and Night City to live out their last few weeks, or months. Or, become an engram like Johnny was, having a digitized consciousness in the hopes that one day Arasaka will find a cure, but it's more than likely that they will just forget about V, leaving them in the infinite void of a digital space, swept successfully under the rug.
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5 The Star Ending, Explained
V Moves On From Night City with the Aldecaldos As Family
- V and Panam leave Night City with the Aldecaldos, continuing a Nomad path to find a cure elsewhere.
V and the Aldecaldos use their new tank to infiltrate Arasaka Tower, but a battle between V, Panam, and Saul against Adam Smasher sees Saul killed. Panam and V defeat Smasher and reach Mikoshi, where V and Johnny share a farewell as Johnny leaves for beyond the Blackwall with Alt. As for V, they are told by Alt that there is no cure. V decides to live out what time they have left with Panam Palmer and the Aldecaldos, seeing this Nomad group as a family. The Aldecaldos, with V and Panam at the helm, leave Night City behind. While V may die in a few months, they will at least die knowing they are with family, and there's still hope that they use their connections and Nomadic travel to find someone who can cure V's condition before they fade away.
4 The Sun Ending, Explained
V Gets Their Blaze of Glory by Working for a Mystery Man to Rob a Space Casino
- V becomes a Night City Legend and works with the elusive Mr. Blue Eyes to rob the Crystal Palace casino in space.
Entrusting Johnny with V's body to infiltrate Arasaka with Rogue will result in a successful operation, but one that sees Rogue killed by Adam Smasher. Johnny and V reunite in Mikoshi with Alt, where Alt lets V know that there is simply no cure. With Johnny's goal complete, he elects to leave with Alt, and V returns to their body to take Rogue's place as the new King/Queen of the Afterlife. V becomes the Night City Legend they always wanted to be, albeit one without Jackie, and with only a few weeks left to live. V gets into contact with Mr. Blue Eyes, a mysterious character with powerful (but unknown) associates, and is hired to do a heist at the Crystal Palace, a space station. What treasure awaits at the Crystal Palace is unknown, but considering Mr. Blue Eyes' importance, it's more than likely that this exchange will get V a cure for their condition, or go out in a blaze of glory for trying.
3 Temperance Ending, Explained
Johnny Silverhand Gets a New Life in V's Body
- V surrenders their body to Johnny Silverhand, allowing Johnny to have a fresh start away from Night City.
V and Johnny manage to make it to Mikoshi to meet Alt Cunninham, only to find out that it was for nothing. V's condition is terminal, and it's a matter of weeks, or even days, until V dies. Filled with no hope, V decides that their time is up, and it's time to see what awaits the next life beyond the Blackwall with Alt, and to give Johnny the second chance he never got. V dies by going with Alt, and the body left behind is now completely Johnny Silverhand's. With a new start on life, Johnny leaves Night City behind to become a drifter, to search for something else to believe in, and to fight for, without forgetting V. Johnny gets a fresh start, but doesn't give V's allies the closure they need, which leads to Panam's promise to finding where Johnny has gone to make him pay for taking V's body. Whether Panam ever finds Johnny is not known, since Johnny seems to have moved on to a new life away from the fame of Samurai or the violent hatred for Arasaka.
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2 The Tower Ending, Explained
V is Cured, At the Cost of Cyberware, Relationships, and 2 Years of Life
- V accepts help from NUSA, which sees the Relic removed. But V's 2-year coma is given a bleak future.
V continues to work for President Myers and NUSA, alongside Solomon Reed, to capture So-Mi "Songbird" and take her in so that NUSA can keep her contained as a weapon with access to the Blackwall. Capturing Songbird and bringing her in with Solomon Reed will see the NUSA agent return to Langley, where he will keep his promise to V that the top scientists in America will remove the Relic as if it were a tumor. V calls Reed to fulfill this promise, leaving Night City on an AV carrier provided by NUSA, despite Johnny's plea to find another way. The folks at Langley are successful in removing the Relic, thus killing Johnny Silverhand, but the complications resulted in V being in a coma for 2 years. Waking up in 2079, V is now allergic to cyberware, with everyone they knew having abandoned them and moved on with their lives after V disappeared off the grid for so long. V returns to Night City as a wanderer, adrift to start a life as a standard NPC in a city that's moved on from V's dream of becoming a legend.
1 The Secret Ending, Explained
V and Johnny Party Like It's 2023
- V and Johnny fight Arasaka without help to ensure their friends get to live, but their fate remains unchanged.
After building a close bond together after Johnny's funeral in Chippin' In, Johnny tells V that it's tough to decide which of their friends gets to die, and so he elects for a wild, suicide run. Johnny and V take to Arasaka Tower as just the two of them, cutting a path to Mikoshi without anyone else's help. If V dies during this assault, then the credits roll as if V had committed suicide. However, if V makes it to Mikoshi, then they have the choice between The Sun ending and the Temperance ending, except Rogue will not have died since V never let her join this assault on Arasaka Tower against Adam Smasher.
Cyberpunk 2077
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 76 /100 Critics Rec: 66%
- Released
- December 10, 2020
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol
- Developer(s)
- CD Projekt Red
- Publisher(s)
- CD Projekt Red
