Cyberpunk 2077 already authored the greatest comeback in gaming — from a broken launch to 40 million copies. Now CD Projekt Red is closing the book on the base game, and they're doing it with a full send-off instead of a quiet patch.
## What Afterlife Edition is CDPR is calling the 2026 patch Update 2.4, 'Afterlife Edition,' and framing it as the last numbered content drop for the game. It's not one download — it ships in three waves, partly to spread server load, partly to give modders room to keep up between drops. The headline content is a mission chain built with Studio Trigger that nods at the Edgerunners 2 anime without spoiling it, a new fixer handing out edgerunner-style gigs, two cyberware sets pulled from the show, and a remixed soundtrack.
## The part the RPG heads care about Under the hood there's a path tracing 2.0 mode using neural radiance caching. In plain terms: roughly double the frame rate on RTX 40 and 50 cards at the same visual fidelity. For a single-player, big-world RPG this is the kind of tech pass that makes an old game feel new on current hardware — exactly the lane this show lives in.
## Why it's here and not the anime slot We cover Cyberpunk every episode. When the story is the anime, it rides in the anime pillar — and Edgerunners 2 is doing that today with its Fall window. When the story is the game, it rides here. The 40 million milestone was last week; the news now is the patch itself, and the fact that CDPR is treating it as a curtain call before Project Orion, the sequel, takes over.
## Sources - Cyberpunk.net — official news - Screen Rant — Cyberpunk 2077 July 2026 update celebrated by gamers - Cyberpunk Wiki — Patch 2.3 / update history