Cyberpunk 2077 will be available for free trial when you download the full game, and it will run for five hours until April 1.
Get Cyberpunk 2077 for Free: A Five-Hour Game Trial Is Available Until April 1.
Developer CD Projekt Red has announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will be playable for free this coming weekend as part of a limited trial. For a few hours, the well-known game will be available for free on Microsoft and Sony’s current generation consoles, but not on PCs. You will be able to play the core Cyberpunk 2077 game, which requires a full download in order to be accessed during the trial. The testing scheduled for this weekend will not include the Phantom Liberty expansion.
The Cyberpunk 2077 website states that the free trial will run from March 28 at 4 p.m. CET (8 p.m. IST) to April 1 at 8:59 a.m. CEST (12:29 p.m. IST). During the trial time, you will get five hours to play the game on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S, all of which are current-generation platforms. PC gamers are not included in the experiment, according to CDPR, for “technical reasons”.
You can only play Cyberpunk for five hours during the trial time; after that, you’ll need to buy the game in order to keep playing. If, after the trial period, you decide to purchase Cyberpunk 2077, the developer claims that your saved progress will be carried over to the full version of the game.
Five hours of gameplay is a rather short period for a free trial, especially as the game has several cutscenes that need conversation, which will eat up a significant portion of the trial’s restricted duration. The Phantom Liberty expansion isn’t included in the trial, so you can’t play it if you already purchase the main game.
You will need to download the full game in order to play Cyberpunk 2077 as part of the forthcoming trial; on the PlayStation 5, this will be 99.3GB, and on Microsoft’s current-generation consoles, it will be around 103GB. During the trial period, you won’t require a subscription (like Game Pass) to play the game, and many players can test it on a single console as long as they each have their own user account.