One of Steam’s Best Open-World Games is Finally Graduating from My Wishlist

Steam’s wishlist feature is a godsend for me. I’ll routinely add a random game I come across to my wishlist, forget that it’s there as its release date merely states that it is “coming soon,” and be pleasantly surprised when a release date is announced and have something brand-new to look forward to. However, my wishlist has also become a den of hoarded Steam games that I’ve yet to act on, and I usually place an onus on miscellaneous Steam sales to dictate when a game will ultimately leave my wishlist and enter my library.

For example, a handful of games that are presently entombed in my Steam wishlist are Cronos: The New Dawn, which I’m hoping to get around to this month for the spooky season, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, which recently released a demo on Steam, and Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, which still doesn’t have a release window on Steam. Lately, though, I’ve been in the mood for an open-world game—a genre I don’t dabble in lightly if I know it’ll be a massive time sink. That’s why the Steam Autumn Sale 2025 has become awfully persuasive regarding Cyberpunk 2077, despite me owning it on PlayStation 5 already.

Cyberpunk 2077 is -65% in Steam’s Autumn Sale 2025

I’m not one to double-dip with games that I buy. If I made a conscious decision to buy a game on one platform, I’ll rarely choose to essentially erase that investment of time and money—assuming it doesn’t have cross-progression between platforms—and, even if there is cross-save functionality, I’m never certain that I’d bother playing it on one platform when I’ve been playing it on another already. That said, I’m not immune to a phenomenal Steam sale, either, and Cyberpunk 2077 caught me by surprise when I first played it all the way through and rolled credits.

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September 12, 2003

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Cyberpunk 2077 is a Game I’m Happy to Revisit, Thanks in No Small Part to Steam

At this stage in its roller-coaster ride of a life cycle, you probably don’t need to hear too many glowing recommendations to know how special Cyberpunk 2077 is, rivaling The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as one of the best open-world games of all time. In my experience, it took three attempts at combating performance issues before I eventually waited until the game was in a more stable and complete condition.

This allowed me to play Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC, widely received as some of the best content in the game, in my first full, thorough playthrough, and I’m not sure if I would’ve appreciated the game in its entirety in the same way had I stuck it out and endured the prickly barbs of an open-world sci-fi epic that had not been truly refined or polished yet. So, while I won’t necessarily be indulging in another suite of new quality-of-life features or content unless several patches have gone out since I last played Cyberpunk 2077, buying the game for PC seems like a no-brainer to me.

If I can find the time, something I adore doing is playing a game again before its sequel or successor launches, primarily as a means of reestablishing my muscle memory if it’s a particularly challenging series, or to reacclimate myself to story details and lore that I’ll have forgotten by then. I know I’ll be experimenting with broken Cyberpunk 2077 builds that I neglected before, and I’m excited to see what other romance options are like (I chose Judy in my first playthrough, and I’m sure I’ll select a male V for my next playthrough so that I can romance Panam).

Especially in an open-world RPG with so many avenues of customization and diversity in how to tackle the story, as well as its multiple prologues and endings, I have no gripes whatsoever with the fact that I’m purchasing Cyberpunk 2077 again, and the sale that I’m getting the Ultimate edition for has sweetened that deal for me tenfold. I may not be playing Cyberpunk 2077 again until sometime closer to when Cyberpunk 2 is scheduled to be released, but I’ll no longer have to fret over whether I’ll be digging my PlayStation 5 out of storage or simply installing it from my Steam library whenever that time draws near.