Cyberpunk 2077 Endings and Key Choices Guide: All Endings, Spoiler Levels, and the Secret Ending

Think of the ending as a funnel, not a branching tree that splits all game long. For most of the story, your choices change relationships, dialogue, and which side jobs are open, but they do not lock you into one ending. The funnel narrows at the end: you reach a rooftop conversation, you choose who helps you with the final assault, you play the assault, and then you make a final choice about the body. That is why a player who skipped side jobs can still finish the game, but cannot access every ending: some ally options only exist if you did that ally side-job chain first.

Three preparations cover almost every ending, and none of them requires you to know the plot. First, finish the side-job chains of the people you might want as allies, because an ally you never helped cannot be called. Second, pay attention to Johnny: the secret ending is gated on your relationship with him and on finishing his side jobs, and the game does not hand you a meter that says you are ready, so finish his chain rather than guessing. Third, save before the point of no return. The game warns you, and that save is your ticket to every other ending without replaying the whole game.

There is no canon ending and no best ending that the game enforces, and guides that rank one as objectively best are ranking a feeling, not a mechanic. The honest way to choose a first ending is by what you want the last hours to feel like: the ending whose ally you most trust, and the final body choice you can live with. Play that one first, then use your point-of-no-return save for the others. The spoiler section below explains what each named ending actually contains, so stop here if you want your first ending to surprise you.

Spoiler warning: this section names endings, allies, and outcomes. The five main base-game endings are The Devil, The Star, The Sun, Temperance, and the secret (Don’t Fear) The Reaper. The Devil comes from accepting Hanako Arasaka deal and working with Arasaka. The Star comes from calling Panam and the Aldecaldos. The Sun comes from calling Rogue. Temperance is not a separate ally path: it is the epilogue variant you get on the Star or Sun path when you give the body to Johnny at the final choice. The premature ending, Path of Least Resistance, is chosen on the rooftop itself by ending V life early, and it ends the game without the final assault. Phantom Liberty adds The Tower, reached through the expansion finale rather than the rooftop, and it wraps up the whole game in a different way from the base endings.

Spoiler warning, continued. To unlock (Don’t Fear) The Reaper, finish Tapeworm, Chippin’ In, and Blistering Love before Nocturne Op55N1, and raise your relationship with Johnny to at least 70%. The Chippin’ In dialogue matters: players who follow Johnny-friendly answers, including inscribing Johnny initials and agreeing to call Rogue, report the clearest path to the threshold, and the game does not show you a live percentage, so do the full chain rather than trusting a single dialogue choice. On the rooftop, when the ally options appear, do not pick any of them. Wait about five minutes without selecting. Johnny will then offer the solo run. Take it, and be ready: this is the hardest version of the final assault, with no ally crew to absorb damage, so bring your strongest build, your best weapons, and healing, and do not attempt it under-levelled as a first ending.

Two misunderstandings cost players the most time. First, romance does not create a new ending: it changes who is present in your epilogue and some dialogue, but the ending you get is still decided by ally and final body choice. Second, most mid-game moral choices do not add or remove endings either: they change who lives, who trusts you, and which side jobs stay open, which is exactly why the ally side-job chains matter more than any single dialogue line. If you want a different ending, change the ally or the final choice, not a random conversation from Act 2.

Yes. Keep a save at the point-of-no-return warning, finish one ending, then reload that save and choose a different ally or final choice. There is no New Game Plus, so the save is the system.

You can still finish the game and get the Devil, Star, Sun, and Temperance endings, but the secret ending will not be offered. Reload an earlier save and finish his chain, or accept that this playthrough skips the secret path.

It adds The Tower as a separate resolution reached through the expansion finale. It does not rewrite the five base endings or their unlock conditions.

It is a real game ending in the sense that it ends the story and rolls credits, but it skips the final assault and has no epilogue mission. Treat it as a narrative choice, not as a shortcut to completion rewards.