8 Controversies That Have ALREADY Hurt Cyberpunk 2077

Leading into that comes another thorny issue.

It’s one of those things where if potential racial insensitivity is a non issue for you, this probably will be as well. That’s fine and all, but arguments to keep politics out of video games ring hollow when the game is called "Cyberpunk".

The genre has a rich history of transhumanism, anti-corporate, anti-objectivism, pro-proletariat and counter-culture themes. It was built on politics.

If CD Projekt Red is going to wade into that conversation, it’s going to attract attention.

It was reported recently that Cyberpunk will (possibly) allow you to play as a transgender or non-binary character; more on that later. This was set against a backdrop of a highly sexualised poster featuring a transwoman with a huge cybernetic bulge and the tagline ‘mix it up’.

The in your face sexual imagery would be eye grabbing in any case, but on a feminine body, that’s amplified ten times over. No publicity is bad publicity though, and the billboard itself isn’t inherently negative.

CD Projekt Red’s response has been pretty good so far, but they’ve yet to really back it up. This is where the scandal gets a little deeper...