The first official modding tools for ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ have arrived

Intrepid gamers wasted no time deploying Cyberpunk 2077 mods – you can, for example, turn Night City into a smoggy wasteland like Blade Runner. But now CD Projekt Red offers its own tools for fine-tuning the game, which should make it even easier to dive into its wealth of assets. So far, the developer has released a metadata tool, which other modding software will build on; a small application that lists what is in the game archives; and another small app to list the contents of its game settings binaries.

If all of this seems incomprehensible to you, don’t worry. The great thing is that these tools could lead to even more mods down the line. CDPR says it will continually update them alongside Cyberpunk 2077 patches, although I take the developer’s promises with a grain of salt at this point. The game’s first major patch was dropped last week, following a series of smaller updates shortly after release. But even though this fix was meant to fix memory leaks and other issues, it ended up introducing a revolutionary bug.

Obviously, CD Projekt Red still has a lot to work on with the game, so I wouldn’t expect modding support to be a huge priority going forward.