Although that is true, in my opinion Cyberpunk is also a visual aesthetic, a futuristic dark underworld, a city which stretches on endlessly without a tree in sight, that kinda thing.

Look man, just buy games you want to play. Don't worry so much about the business-side of things. I do get where you are coming from and I am a big believer in 'vote with your wallet', but I think buying a video game you don't think you'll enjoy is just going to make you unhappy. After all, you'd be voting for a future of cyberpunk games if you buy cyberpunk 2077, and that wouldn't exactly be what you want.

You will inevitably support what you really want in the future if you just focus on buying the games you want. The only real decision that you should probably make carefully is WHERE you buy games from as you could end up accidentally supporting illegal activity or just bad consumer practices... But you are on GOG so you know all that already.

Enjoy life basically and just be informed enough to not support terrible people. For the most part though, only buy what you really want.

Cyberpunk is literally my favorite genre, largely because of Blade Runner and Deus Ex. Everyone's different though dude, like what you like. Never ever feel like you have to like something because others do. I couldn't care less about many of today's biggest games, and that's okay.

I'll buy it. Even if I still have to play Witcher 3 :-D
CDPR has to keep making great games, so I have something to look forward to!

Cyberpunk has SCI FI aspects to it, yes specially when it comes down to the tech.
But science fiction as a genre is standalone, as cyberpunk is, science fiction doesn t
include the dystopian side of the cyberpunk genre.

There is ofc plenty of room for interpretation, i personally think it is kinda unfair torwards the
cyberpunk genre to classify it as sci fi, while it is in fact (as i said) standing complete on its own.

Different media do different genres better.

I feel that cyberpunk is best done by literature. I'll probably get CP2077 to see how it goes... but I expect I won't enjoy it too much. I *LOVE* reading cyberpunk. I *HATE* watching it. With [high] Fantasy, I think RPGs/interactive games is the best. I'm not so fond movies or books in that genre. Harder scifi? I prefer watching, can play it OK as a game video game (but not tabletop game), and don't enjoy reading it at all.

Weird, eh?

Cyberpunk is simply a subgenre/subset of science-fiction in the same way that science-fiction is a subset of fiction.

Think of the gameplay genres for this game, for example. Does "Action" or "RPG" or even "Action RPG" describe it properly? No, but that's what subgeres are for.

Yeah, there's "IRL" stuff with fighting/sneaking/dialog(big advice: be careful what skills ex: hacking/dialog choice skills/etc) you pick on char. creation, as it can/will affect gameplay and what routes one can choose). There's also some cyber/hacking stuff which is fun,

It's one of my favorites too(Due to Deus Ex/Ssytem Shock 1&2/Neuromancer/B.A.S.S./etc, for starters). I also like point-click games in the vein of Sierra(Space/King's/etc quests) & others.

Why the downvotes for OP? Anyhow, this may be shocking to hear, but... A single sold copy more or less won't really affect CDPR. So, if you don't like the genre or other aspects of the game, then you don't have to buy it, but can still help out CDPR in much more effective ways. Tell your friends about the game, spread news about it on social media, share trailers, artwork etc. You could potentially convince dozens of people to buy a copy, and that will help its success much more than the single copy you would have bought for yourself.

I'm sure TinyE is somehow involved.