After a 4-year wait, Netflix announces Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is coming this fall

As reported by Polygon, we now have a release window for the second season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. We’ll finally see more episodes of the explosively popular anime adaptation of Mike Pondsmith’s tabletop setting and CD Projekt’s 2020 RPG sometime this fall.

I had to do a double take when I noticed it’s been a whole year since Edgerunners season two was first announced, but Netflix has finally begun spinning up the marketing machine for the highly anticipated continuation. The series is taking an anthology approach, following a new cast of characters after the events of the first season.

Edgerunners played a big part in Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc: I’ve long maintained that, before the game’s 2.0 update actually transformed its systems for the better in 2023, the universal goodwill around the Edgerunners anime led players to approach the game with a more open mind⁠

The power of anime is greater than that of memes about bugs and console framerates, apparently. CDPR had already done some tweaking and bug fixing by the time of Edgerunners’ 2022 release, but it was sheer good vibes that got people to realize Cyberpunk 2077 was always good.

I’m curious to see when this new story will be set. I’m less familiar with where R. Talsorian Games has taken things in sourcebooks, but this could be the first new story in the chronology since Cyberpunk 2077. The Phantom Liberty expansion takes place contemporaneously with the main game, but does have one potential ending set many years in the future.

Edgerunners’ first season, meanwhile, took place before Cyberpunk 2077 and is referenced ingame⁠—it’s equally likely that Edgerunners season two will be a pre- or interquel of some form. CD Projekt, meanwhile, is firmly in a Witcher epoch: The Witcher 4 is on its way soon, and we probably can’t expect Cyberpunk 2 any sooner than 2030.