There's stiff competition for the greatest gaming comeback stories, but Cyberpunk 2077 will always be part of the conversation. CD Projekt Red was coming off the back of the outstanding Witcher 3, had all the time and money in the world, and the dream setting: Hell, it even had Keanu Reeves. Anticipation and expectation were sky-high.
Then it launched. Cyberpunk 2077 arrived riddled with bugs and, while undeniably gorgeous and filled with one-off moments of brilliance, was also full of underbaked systems and far from the great leap forward in RPG design many were hoping for. It was a bit of a disaster and PC players actually got off relatively lightly: The game launched in such a state on PlayStation that Sony took the unprecedented step of removing it from sale entirely (if temporarily).
