CD Projekt REDA YouTuber has taken Cyberpunk 2077 roleplay to a new level by attempting to live a completely ordinary life in Night City.
When a game is as immersive as Cyberpunk 2077, there’s always an interest in just acting normal for a bit and seeing how the game reacts, just like GTA, where you choose to simply drive normally around the world, which usually ends in a police chase.
Well, one YouTuber, Any Austin, has taken it even further, by living as a regular NPC in Cyberpunk 2077 for seven in-game days. He ate, worked, partied, drank, and even used the bathroom when his character was able, and the results were a little more real than he expected.
Any Austin lives as Cyberpunk 2077 NPC for a week
In the video, he explains that he wanted the full NPC routine. He found a small studio apartment in the city and set strict rules for eating, sleeping, working, partying, and downtime. For example, to account for the three-hour day and night cycles, he ate smaller portions of food and drink, so his body would feel hungry around the same time as the NPC.
For work, he picked a Chinese restaurant and committed to working as a server. He planned a full schedule that included twelve-hour shifts for six days a week, scaled down to match the game’s three-hour cycles.
The workday quickly became a grind. Serving customers in Night City sounded fun on paper, but he found the actual experience boring and repetitive, and struggled to engage with NPCs who gave him canned responses and static routines.
At the same time, the daily structure made him hyper aware of time passing inside the game, creating a strange new layer of immersion that made the world feel more alive.
Despite this, what began as a fun idea slowly shifted into a genuine test of patience, and he found himself hating his time at work, to which many servers commented that it was “too real.” All that was met with a run-in with the cops at the end and a new appreciation for the poor NPC wandering around Night City.
