Night City is always seeking new residents, even if they are just passing through the area for a few hours at a time. Over the Easter weekend, owners of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S may play Cyberpunk 2077 for free thanks to a promotion from CD Projekt Red.
Between 11 AM ET on March 28 and 2:59 AM ET on April 1, you can play the expansive first-person role-playing game for up to five hours at no additional cost. PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers can also play the base game for five hours without a subscription, according to CDPR. However, you can play the game this weekend without a membership.
If you’re an efficient player, five hours of game time might just be enough to see you through the pivotal heist mission toward the end of the first act. It’s there that the story really opens up and perhaps might entice you to buy the full game to keep playing.
Cyberpunk 2077 had a disastrous debut in 2020 and was in such rough shape that Sony pulled it from the PlayStation Store and offered refunds. The game’s in much better condition these days. I dropped off of Cyberpunk 2077 after playing for a few hours at launch. The arrival of the current-gen console versions in early 2022 pulled me back in and I ended up enjoying the base game. I’ve yet to check out the highly regarded Phantom Liberty expansion or the 2.0 update that overhauled some of the key systems, but newcomers will be able to get a taste of the latter for free this weekend.
