Final Version involves the Mac on July 17

Mac house owners will quickly have the ability to play one of many greatest video games of the final 5 years or so. Cyberpunk 2077: Final Version might be out there within the Mac App Retailer in addition to Steam, GOG.com and the Epic Video games Retailer on Thursday, July 17. Because the identify implies, it consists of each the bottom sport in addition to the Phantom Liberty enlargement from 2023. The port was announced last fall and was initially deliberate to reach “early” this 12 months, but it surely took a bit of longer to get every part squared away.

Unsurprisingly, you will want an M-series Mac to play this sport, however Apple and CD Projekt Crimson affirm that it will work on computer systems all the way in which again to the M1 — however you will want 16GB of RAM. For years, 8GB was the usual on entry-level Macs, so these computer systems might be out of luck. And naturally, graphics constancy will fluctuate broadly throughout the assorted supported chipsets, however CD Projekt Crimson is together with a “for this Mac” graphics preset that’s optimized for every Apple Silicon-based Mac. So on the very least, you should not must fuss round with settings an excessive amount of to get a good expertise.

Shortly after the preliminary announcement, CD Projekt Crimson provided more details on the “for this Mac” setting in addition to really helpful specs. Whereas the sport does work with an M1 Mac, you are capped at 30fps and a low decision — issues escalate quickly from there. The really helpful configuration requires an M3 Professional chip with 18GB of RAM to hit 60fps at 1080p. That configuration helps Ray Tracing, however no matter what you are utilizing you’ll need to turn it on manually.

Issues go up from there, with 36GB of RAM and both an M2 Extremely or M3 Max chip to run excessive constancy; very excessive constancy requires an M3 Extremely or M4 Max. That primarily means you could have a $2,000 or up Mac Studio or a $3,200 and up MacBook Professional with the M4 Max if you wish to run this sport on the highest of settings. After all, when you care about such issues, you in all probability have already got gaming PC.

As for different technical goodies, the sport makes use of AMD FSR for upscaling and body technology, and Apple’s MetalFX additionally supplies upscaling as effectively. Upcoming Steel 4 options introduced at WWDC 2025, together with Steel FX Body Interpolation and Steel FX Denoising, are coming to the sport by way of a future replace. Steel FX Body Interpolation generates an intermediate body for each two enter frames and will be mixed with current Steel upscaling to permit the sport to hit 120fps on Extremely settings — however once more, we’re undecided what particular fashions will help that.

Should you use AirPods together with your Mac, Cyberpunk 2077 options spatial audio with head-tracking options. And the sport helps cross-progression no matter what platform you play on, which needs to be helpful for anybody who began a sport elsewhere and desires to choose it again up on a Mac. Should you’ve already bought Cyberpunk 2077 from one other storefront like Steam, it will robotically be out there for Mac.

Whereas Cyberpunk 2077 is not precisely a brand new sport, it stays one of many extra common and lauded titles of the last decade (at the very least after CD Projekt Crimson mounted quite a few launch bugs). And it joins a nonetheless small however rising variety of main video games optimized for Apple Silicon and the Mac, together with the recently-released Murderer’s Creed Shadows. A fast look on the Mac App Retailer additionally exhibits AAA releases together with Loss of life Stranding, Management, Lies of P, quite a few Resident Evil titles in addition to smaller however no much less superior video games like Neva and Stray. Most big-name video games do not come to the Mac concurrently different platforms nonetheless, however the Mac is an possibility for extra than simply Apple Arcade video games.

Replace, July 16, 2025, 11:44AM ET: This story has been up to date with extra particulars from the developer on the completely different specs required to hit the various efficiency tiers in Cyberpunk 2077.