No Future: An Exploration of Cyberpunk 2077's Society, Culture and Crime

This article examines the social, cultural and criminological fabric of Night City, which serves as the setting for CD Projekt Red’s 2020 game, Cyberpunk 2077. It opens by exploring Night City’s background, the important themes which arise throughout the game and its lore, and establishing a number of relevant theoretical frameworks. Subsequently, it analyses the culture and society present in Night City through the prism of those frameworks and links them to the prevalence of crime within it.