Cyberpunk 2077 Reminds Us How Ugly Reality Can Be Cyberpunk 2077’s techno-future. It’s at once thrilling and cloistering, singularly impressive and utterly claustrophobic. As I walk these streets, I feel like I’m drowning. At first, I struggled to understand why. Never has any other game given me such a feeling, not the various incarnations of Liberty City and San Andreas, not Skyrim or Lemoyne or San Francisco or Lost Heaven or any of the dozens of other places I’ve visited in my digital tourism. Even dressed up in a veneer of realism or totalitarianism, those places feel like playgrounds. There’s an airiness to them, a freedom, a sense that these environments are designed for you — aided by how your character can move within them.