Cyberpunk fans have been waiting a long time for a proper, canon-aligned deep dive into the city that defines the franchise — and it has finally arrived, although probably not in the format most players were expecting. R. Talsorian Games has officially revealed Cyberpunk 2077 Night City 2045, a 312-page sourcebook for the Cyberpunk RED tabletop RPG that serves as a prequel to the 2020 video game. Pre-orders are live right now, with the physical release locked in for June 2026 and a digital PDF available immediately.
This is not a new video game. It is not a DLC, a spin-off, or an Edgerunners continuation. It is a full tabletop supplement, produced in direct collaboration with CD Projekt Red, designed to sit alongside the Cyberpunk 2077 universe as its definitive lore reference. And for anyone who has ever wanted to understand exactly how Night City actually functions under the chrome, it is easily the most ambitious piece of worldbuilding the franchise has ever shipped.
Cyberpunk 2077 Night City 2045 is a 312-page city sourcebook for the Cyberpunk RED tabletop RPG, set exactly 32 years before the events of the Cyberpunk 2077 video game. Produced in direct collaboration with CD Projekt Red, it functions as a full tabletop city bible rather than a traditional supplement.
The timing places it squarely inside what the franchise calls the Time of the Red — the unstable, irradiated era that follows the Fourth Corporate War. That conflict ended with a nuclear detonation in the heart of Night City, which produced the infamous "blood rains," a reddish atmospheric residue that lingered in the skies for years. It is, in other words, the messiest possible moment in Night City's history to visit, and that is exactly why it makes for such rich material.
CD Projekt Red has been directly involved in development, which means every map, faction, and piece of history in the book is meant to slot cleanly into the video game's established continuity. If you have ever wondered who actually ran Watson two decades before V moved in, this is the answer key.
The 312 pages are dense. This is not flavour text padded out with pretty art — although there is plenty of that too. It is a structural gazetteer that tries to document the entire functioning infrastructure of a fictional city.
The book provides a district-by-district breakdown of all 24 of Night City's neighbourhoods, each with its own unique tone, power structure, and ongoing storylines. Every entry tells you who is in charge locally, who lives there, and what has happened recently enough to still matter. It is the kind of granular coverage that most fictional cities never receive even across entire novel series.
Faction coverage is where the scope really shows. The book details 44 gangs, 6 criminal organisations, and 23 private security providers — the last of which sit in the morally ambiguous zone between contracted muscle and organised crime, which has always been one of the franchise's sharpest commentaries on corporate power. Each of these groups gets background, allegiances, and operational territory.
Individual location coverage runs past 600 specific sites, from stores and clinics to gang headquarters, corporate fortresses, and megabuildings, all illustrated on newly drawn maps. For game masters, there are also 99 stat blocks covering everything from gang mooks and enforcers to civilians and corporate security, which is roughly enough characters to populate a small campaign season without repeating yourself.
The opening chapters cover Night City's complete history up to its 2045 "present," along with government structure, citizenship and laws, transportation networks, utilities, services, and media. This is the unglamorous stuff that most settings skip — but it is also what makes a city feel lived in. If you want to know how water gets to Pacifica or who controls the NCPD budget, the book has answers.
Physical copies of Cyberpunk 2077 Night City 2045 will officially launch at Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio, which runs from 17 to 21 June 2026. Attendees with a pre-order in hand can pick up their copies at the event. For everyone else, physical pre-orders begin shipping on 24 June 2026.
The digital PDF is already available for purchase, so anyone who wants to start reading immediately does not have to wait until summer. Here is the full pricing breakdown based on what R. Talsorian Games has confirmed so far:
Edition | Price | Availability |
|---|---|---|
Physical book | USD $60 | Pre-order now, ships 24 June 2026 |
Digital PDF | USD $30 | Available immediately |
Physical + PDF bundle | $60 + 50% off PDF | Pre-order only |
There is also a smaller perk attached to digital pre-orders through Demiplane: buyers get free access to Roll20's Map Pin feature, which is genuinely useful if you intend to run the book as an active campaign rather than just read it for the lore.
UK pricing sits at roughly £46 for the physical edition, according to retailer listings.
Longtime Cyberpunk tabletop players will recognise the echo of the original 2020 Night City sourcebook that came out for Cyberpunk 2020. That book was a staple reference for decades, but it had a much tighter scope — it focused almost entirely on the downtown district, leaving the rest of the city as a blank canvas that individual GMs had to fill in themselves.
Night City 2045 is a different beast entirely. It expands to cover the whole city, and it does so at a point 25 years later in the timeline, which means it incorporates all the geographic and political changes that came out of the Fourth Corporate War. It also benefits from the mapping and worldbuilding work CD Projekt Red has poured into the setting since Cyberpunk 2077 launched, which has effectively reshaped what "canon Night City" looks like.
The book was first announced at Gen Con 2024, which means roughly two years of development went into it before this formal reveal — a runway that matches the scale of the final product.
Cyberpunk 2077 Night City 2045 is not going to change anything about how the video game plays. It is not a patch, not an expansion, and not a teaser for Project Orion, the long-in-development sequel that is still years away from release while CD Projekt Red focuses on The Witcher IV. What it does offer is something the franchise has arguably needed for a long time: a single, canon-aligned reference that pins down the mechanics of the setting.
For hardcore Cyberpunk 2077 fans who don't play tabletop, it is still a legitimately interesting read. The book effectively answers the questions the video game never had space to address — how Night City became what V eventually encountered, which factions rose and fell along the way, and what the corporate balance of power looked like before Arasaka clawed its way back to the top.
For Cyberpunk RED players, it is a gift. A city this densely documented, with this many maps and stat blocks ready to go, can anchor years of campaign play without much additional prep.
Either way, it lands at a useful moment. With the next mainline Cyberpunk game still over the horizon, a 312-page lore drop is exactly the kind of substantial content the fanbase can sink its teeth into — and a reminder that Night City has always been bigger than any single playthrough.
Alex Castellari · Editor
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