CD Projekt Red has officially announced a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, one that may ditch Night City in favor of a new setting. While it is fun to explore Night City while completing Cyberpunk 2077's funny side quests, there are also many other exciting locations that the sequel could use within Cyberpunk's world. The release date for the sequel has not been announced, and it may be some time before players actually get to see where it will take place and what it will entail.

Night City is the primary setting of Cyberpunk 2077. It consists of six different districts, most of which are controlled by the various gangs that inhabit it. The city itself is located within California, specifically on the border between the states of North and South California that formed as a result of Cyberpunk 2077's 1994 economic collapse. Night city is home to powerful weapons like Cyberpunk 2077's katanas and enemies such as cyberpsychos to use them on.

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It's far from certain that Cyberpunk 2077's sequel will leave Night City since almost nothing is known about the game, only that it is codenamed Project Orion. In addition, Night City has been used as the setting for both the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime and the Cyberpunk tabletop game that inspired Orion's predecessor, so it's hard to imagine the series leaving it behind. However, there's also a great deal of potential in other locations, including a number that have already been revealed in resources such as Cyberpunk 2077's database entries that act as expansions to its lore. It's even possible that Project Orion will take place in a new version of Night City years after the events of V's adventures, or that it will have a second location in addition to the city.

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Out of all the possibilities for Project Orion's setting, perhaps the best is the ghost city of Busan. In Cyberpunk 2077, the city of Busan, South Korea was infected with a deadly virus supposedly created by Militech. This led to the death of all of its inhabitants, and the city has been in strict quarantine ever since. However, some believe that people still live within Busan. This city could make for a very good setting for the next game for a few reasons. Being under heavy quarantine and sparsely populated means that it might be even more lawless and chaotic than Cyberpunk 2077's Night City, and its map can be even more dystopic. In addition, the automated machines that are confirmed to still be active 50 years after the quarantine started could introduce many new elements.

Another possible setting established within Cyberpunk 2077's world is outer space. There are many expansive space stations within Earth's orbit referred to by the game, owned by governments and corporations alike, and V even travels to one of them if they choose the Arasaka ending. One in particular could be very good for Project Orion's setting; Crystal Palace, a luxurious metropolitan station with a multitude of business and living facilities. It consists of five rings, each with a 2.2 km radius, which makes it rather small compared to Night City, but it still has a great deal of potential to be the setting for Cyberpunk 2077's sequel, one that's even better than the original's. If Crystal Palace falls into an anarchic state after expanding greatly, perhaps combining with other stations in the process, it could have even more of everything that makes Night City exciting, and escaping it can provide a good overarching goal for the main questline.

There's also the possibility that Project Orion will use an entirely new location that hasn't been established in Cyberpunk's lore. Most any city in the NUSA or the Free States can serve as a good setting, and Texas in particular due to its status as an outlier from both like Night City. Wherever it takes place, whether it stays in Night City or if it's set on another continent, hopefully Cyberpunk 2077's sequel will have a dynamic and expansive map with even more to do and see than its predecessor.

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