Where (& What) Cyberpunk 2077’s Witcher 3 Ciri Easter Egg Is

CyberPunk 2077 has an Easter Egg early on in the game that references The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Ciri. CD Projekt Red, the developers behind Cyberpunk 2077, are also the creators of The Witcher video game series. In fact, The Witcher was CD Projekt Red’s first original game, so it’s no surprise developers would want to pay homage to Geralt of Rivia and his companions.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt centers around Geralt of Rivia. Geralt is a witcher, a sterile mutant who hunts monsters for a living. Ciri is a princess who is like a daughter to Geralt, and he spends the majority of The Witcher 3 trying to catch up with her, slaying everything from wraiths to werewolves along the way. While both Cyberpunk 2077 and TheWitcher 3 were developed by CD Projekt Red, it’s difficult to imagine how characters from the latter might be found in the futuristic title.

When players first begin Cyberpunk 2077, they’ll have to pick one of three paths. Each life path in Cyberpunk 2077 creates a background story for the game’s protagonist, V, and one of these paths leads pretty directly to the Ciri easter egg. The Nomad path gives the player a background story as an outcast in the outskirts of the city. The Street Kid Life path starts players off in Heywood, an area infested with violence and gangs. To find The Witcher 3’s Ciri easter egg in Cyberpunk 2077 quickly, players will need to choose the Corpo path.

Where The Witcher 3’s Ciri Is In Cyberpunk 2077

The Corpo path in Cyberpunk 2077 gives players a backstory as a counter-intelligence officer at a massive corporation known as Arasaka. Players who choose the Corpo path will find Ciri’s easter egg in Cyberpunk 2077 early on. While in V’s office, players will get a chance to poke around. Inside one of V’s desk drawers, players will see a magazine called Retro Gaming, which displays Ciri wielding a sword on the cover and names The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as the game of the month.

While the magazine is an adorable reference to The Witcher series, it should also quell any speculations that characters from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will make an appearance in-game. Clearly, much like reality, The Witcher 3 is a game in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe. Fans of The Witcher 3 have long hoped to bump into Ciri in Cyberpunk 2077 after hearing Ciri describe a world where she hid from the Wild Hunt as a place where people had metal in their heads and traveled by flying ships. Ciri’s line was clearly a nod to Cyberpunk 2077. However, it appears all players will find of Ciri in Cyberpunk 2077is a magazine cover.

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