After playing the game for the first time in December 2020, if you had asked me what I thought the "Cyberpunk 2077" expansion would focus on, I would have imagined the heist at the Crystal Palace satellite casino that was foretold in the two endings of the base game. CD Projekt Red's scenario director Igor Sarzynski says the team always insisted that the cyberpunk ending be the final definitive version of V. Spoilers for "2077" and "Phantom Liberty" ahead.

"We considered several other scenarios," Sarzyński explained in an email Q&A with PC Gamer about the development of Phantom Liberty. But none of them were a continuation of the game's main storyline."

"The endings are too varied to make one main post-story thread make sense for all, and we don't want to pick one and invalidate the choices of others.

The difficulty of accommodating diverse endings in cyberpunk is significant enough on its own, but according to Szajinski, the decision goes even deeper than that.

"It's haunting. No need to water it down. Sometimes less is more.

I appreciate the CDPR's approach, which refuses to tinker with what it has already built. From the aforementioned space station suicide attack to the (still uncertain) much more hopeful tone of the ending, "The Star," every cyberpunk conclusion fits the story perfectly.

While "Phantom Liberty" adds one possible alternate ending to the main game, "The Tower" blends into the original route in its own quiet, devastating way rather than overwriting it: "V gets the cure and survives. We always wanted to add an ending," Szajinski explains.