Cyberpunk 2077: Walkthrough & Boss Guide
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🗺️ Main Story Walkthrough
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This is a condensed story outline, not a full quest-by-quest walkthrough. Quest order follows the main-job list on the Fextralife wiki and story details follow Wikipedia; boss notes are limited to what those pages document. Spoilers ahead.
Cyberpunk 2077 opens with a choice of three lifepaths: Nomad, Street Kid or Corpo. The lifepath sets V's starting location, the prologue mission and some extra dialogue options, but it does not give stat or perk advantages. In every lifepath V ends up working as a mercenary in Night City alongside Jackie Welles.
The main jobs run in this order: The Information, The Pickup, The Heist. The Pickup takes place at the Maelstrom gang's food processing plant in Watson. During an optional conversation, Meredith Stout can give you a money chip. Handing that chip to Maelstrom starts the fight with Royce; you can instead sneak past him and leave without fighting (see the boss notes below).
Fixer Dex DeShawn hires V and Jackie to steal the Relic, a biochip, from Arasaka. During the job they witness Yorinobu Arasaka murder his father, Saburo. In the escape the Relic's case is damaged, so V ends up slotting the chip into their own head. Jackie dies during the escape, and Dex then shoots V and leaves them for dead. This sets up the rest of the game, with Johnny Silverhand sharing V's head.
After The Heist the main-job list continues with Playing for Time and Automatic Love, followed by The Space in Between, Disasterpiece, Double Life, M'ap Tann Pelen, I Walk the Line (which contains the Sasquatch fight), Transmission, Ghost Town, Lightning Breaks, Life During Wartime, Down on the Street, Gimme Danger, Play It Safe (which contains the Oda fight) and Search and Destroy. Many of these overlap with side jobs, so the order you meet them in can vary.
Panam Palmer's side jobs are unlocked after With a Little Help From My Friends, when you wait for her call. Queen of the Highway has you drive the Nomads' Basilisk military vehicle, learn its controls and fight the Raffen Shiv in the nearby battle area before the Nomad alliance is secured. For a male V it also opens a romance with Panam, which leads to the All Along the Watchtower ending.
Phantom Liberty needs the base game and adds Dogtown. In the story the President's shuttle is shot down over Dogtown and V is sent to rescue her, working with Solomon Reed (played by Idris Elba). Its main jobs are listed on the wiki as Dog Eat Dog, The Damned, I've Seen That Face Before, Hole in the Sky, Get it Together, Firestarter, Spider and the Fly, You Know My Name, The Killing Moon, Lucretia My Reflection and Birds with Broken Wings. If you have finished Transmission you can start it right away; otherwise you must progress until Songbird contacts you. Choices in Phantom Liberty can unlock an additional ending, tied to the "The Tower" trophy. This guide does not detail those choices.
Nocturne Op55N1 is the main job where V meets Hanako Arasaka and the final-act choice begins. According to Wikipedia, V either assaults Arasaka Tower (solo, with Rogue, or with the Aldecaldos) or accepts Hanako Arasaka's offer to oust Yorinobu. Every route involves defeating Adam Smasher. Outcomes include uploading V's engram to Mikoshi to await a new body (Hanako route only), staying in V's body with a shortened lifespan while seeking a cure, or giving V's body to Johnny and going beyond the Blackwall with Alt (assault routes only). Finish the side jobs you care about first, since the final jobs are a point of no return.
⚔️ Boss Guides
Royce (The Pickup)
How the fight starts
Royce is near the exit of the food processing plant in Watson during The Pickup. Giving Maelstrom the money chip that Meredith Stout may hand you starts the fight. You can avoid it by sneaking past him undetected and leaving.
Attacks and strategy
In phase 1, while his shield is up, he fires a single laser shot; dodge or hide behind a car or debris. After the shield breaks, he uses a horizontal sweeping laser (take cover or crouch) and a low sweeping attack (take cover or jump). Approach from behind and shoot the orange device on his back. A silent takedown before the fight removes roughly a quarter of his energy. He drops the weapon Chaos.
Sasquatch (I Walk the Line)
Attacks and strategy
Sasquatch fights in the mall in Pacifica during I Walk the Line. Phase 1 is built around her sledgehammer: a jumping swing, a rush, an overhead smash, a hammer throw (a hit knocks you back) and a three-hit combo after which she is briefly stuck. Dodging is the main answer, and the pause after the combo is the time to punish her. Breaking the blue weak point on her back makes her drop the hammer. Phase 2 is fists only, with a running punch, a frontal kick and a triple punch ending in a rolling arm attack, again best handled by dodging.
Sandayu Oda (Play It Safe)
Who he is
Oda is Hanako Arasaka's personal bodyguard and an apprentice of Goro Takemura, fought during Play It Safe.
Attacks and strategy
He uses a two-blade lunge, a rush, a jump slam, and a missile shower, usually after a backflip or handgun shot; dodge sideways or hide behind a column. To recover he throws a smoke grenade, hides and cloaks (he vanishes from the minimap). When he cloaks, check the nearby huts, since he always hides in one of them. Find him quickly and use your strongest attacks to stop the healing. Keep moving rather than standing still.
Chimera (Phantom Liberty, Spider and the Fly)
Attacks and strategy
The Chimera appears in Spider and the Fly, fought in the Dogtown tunnels. Its attacks are a front-facing sweeping laser, a machine gun barrage and a rain of missiles from its sides. Use the four columns for cover (they can crumble under damage). Destroying all the exposed orange weak points accounts for roughly 30% of its health bar. Then drones spawn, including repair drones that try to restore its health, so kill them quickly. After they are cleared the Chimera resumes with all its weapons.
Adam Smasher (final act)
Wikipedia states that every ending route requires V to defeat Adam Smasher. The Fextralife page lists his location as Arasaka Tower in Watson but does not document his attacks, phases or weak points, so this guide gives no tactics for him. Prepare as you would for any final fight: stock healing items and save before the final jobs.
Sources & fact-check
Release facts, mechanics and boss details on this page were checked against these sources on 12 October 2026. Spotted an error? Tell us.