Out of the more popular open-world games, Cyberpunk 2077, has a map that ranks on the larger side, but it's by no means the biggest nor the most compelling for all gamers. While space exploring could be gaming's next open-world formula, most AAA titles have maps inspired by and based on real geolocations, such as Night City's dystopian California. However, to understand just how big Cyberpunk's map is compared to other games like itself, it's crucial to know the guesstimated scale.

Guestimates have put Night City and its surrounding badlands, which make up the full explorable areas (and some non-explorable parts) of the map, at around 100-110 kilometers squared in total. Like all video game map guesstimates, it's not exact but represents an ideal number for the sake of comparison to others. Due to Cyberpunk's unique topography, which takes place in a fictional futuristic dystopian city, the density of assets is more abundant than in other open-world games. The lore of the game even follows this, as Night City has no birds or animals because of the diseases that arose from them in a tightly packed city environment. Moreover, Cyberpunk 2077 isn't the only open-world game made on such a large scale; in fact, the game isn't even CD Projekt RED's only creation to reach such a level of in-depth detail.

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Cyberpunk 2077's map fits right in with the most popular AAA open-world titles. Popular titles like SkyrimZelda: BOTWElden Ring, and GTA 5 are smaller but have the same impact - if not more - than what Night City has to offer, while other games like Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 have larger maps and vastly different setting but still manage to share some similarities. Regardless, here's how Cyberpunk's map lines up with these other open worlds.

Smaller Open-World Maps Don't Mean Cyberpunk 2077's Is Better

Smaller Open World Maps Dont Mean Cyberpunk 2077s Is Better

In terms of traversable land, Skyrim has a vastly smaller area to explore than Cyberpunk 2077's Night City and its outskirts. The average consensus is that Skyrim's map covers about thirty-seven kilometers squared of terrain; some mountain peaks players can't get to, but it still makes for a rough guestimate. This would mean that Skyrim's open-world is at least one-third the size of Cyberpunk 2077. However, as fans know, that doesn't discredit the unique fantasy setting experienced in the game - not even close. Skyrim's open world is incredibly immersive, and it's one of the best video game worlds ever created, with a useful 3D-modeled map to go along with exploring.

Another game that has a map much smaller than Cyberpunk but is still dearly beloved for its tradition and lore is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild. The Kingdom of Hyrule's map is thought to cover about thirty-nine kilometers squared in total, which almost stacks up exactly with Skyrim's, although Zelda's is slightly bigger. So, compared with Cyberpunk 2077's open-world, three Hyrule maps, give or take, could fit into Night City and its surrounding badlands. And, in a similar fashion to SkyrimBOTW has an unmatched open world, so its map size doesn't constitute how engulfing and enjoyable it really is. Zelda: BOTW is only on Nintendo consoles, however; and Cyberpunk 2077 is on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, so players need to have the respective platform to experience both open-world map designs comparatively.

Furthermore, a game that's been compared to Cyberpunk 2077 sense its announcement, GTA 5, is almost double the size of the last two games but still has a smaller open-world design than Night City. Los Santos' body of land covers around seventy-six kilometers squared from bottom to top. It's a good chunk and well put together, but hopefully GTA 6 fixes GTA 5's open world problems, one being the lack of interior detail inside buildings that Cyberpunk and other AAA games do better at. An interesting fact about both the games - and the main reason they were compared to one another for so long - is that they're both inspired by modern California beach cities, but with differences in time and narrative.

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Lastly, a game that has dominated gaming culture in 2022 so far, Elden Ring, is the closest in scale to Cyberpunk 2077. At just around seventy-nine kilometers squared, the Lands Between has an incredibly massive body of land and unique topography. Compared to Cyberpunk 2077's map and open world, it's still minuscule, but it has better landmarks and hidden entrances to explore. Elden Ring's map and fast-travel was meant to be used, but players will find themselves wandering around and taking in all the sights and sounds to offer in the beautiful Lands Between. It seems that there's never an ending point to discoveries in Elden Ring, especially when considering its underground parts of the map.

Cyberpunk 2077's Open World Isn't CD Projekt RED's Most Immersive Map

Cyberpunk 2077s Open World Isnt CD Projekt REDs Most Immersive Map

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the more popular AAA titles that has an open world bigger than Cyberpunk 2077.  At around one-hundred and twenty-seven kilometers squared, it beats Night City's one-hundred and ten. Both games are similar in size and scale, but the two settings couldn't be further apart, except for the smaller badlands area in Cyberpunk matching RDR2's desert; Rockstar wanted to push the limits with RDR2, so they made the world significantly bigger than Red Dead Redemption's original map. The major difference between Cyberpunk and RDR2 is how dense the areas are on the map; Night City takes up most of the area, and players are constantly in and out of the city's skyscrapers, whereas RDR2 is mostly flat land with a long distance between its cities.

Cyberpunk 2077 isn't even CD Projekt Red's biggest game, because the Witcher 3 exists on a much more massive scale. Its map dimesons come out to around one-hundred and forty-two kilometers squared - which is humongous for a medieval fictional world given the circumstances. Other games like it don't even come close, and Witcher 3 is four times Skyrim and BOTW's map size. Some of the Continent's open world was expanded with DLC, however - it wasn't that large at launch in 2015.

Night City is a big place and players will benefit from using a map to travel around, but it's by no means the biggest or the best out there. However, like the Witcher 3, the game could get an expanded map if the 2023 Cyberpunk 2077 expansion chooses to go in that direction, and this would follow suit with what CD Projekt RED has done in the past.

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