“It’s obvious Europeans designed Night City,” says Cyberpunk 2077 players in the US have picked up on several oddities around the city, but the one that stands out—and sparked a playful debate online—is the almost total lack of parking spots.

Night City is famous for its futuristic skyline, wild NPCs, and dark underbelly. But some players have noticed something else: Cyberpunk 2077’s sprawling metropolis barely has any parking. While that might seem totally normal from a European perspective (especially since the CD Projekt RED game is, after all, a work of fiction and doesn’t have to mirror real-life urban planning), US players are convinced it’s proof that the city was dreamed up by Europeans.

The debate kicked off on Reddit, where user Double_School5149 wrote, “Clearly Night City was designed by Europeans because there are almost no parking spots…” The post, now with more than 3,000 upvotes, adds, “For an American city—where around 22% of metropolitan land is devoted to parking—Night City makes it nearly impossible to find a good place to park. Most of the time, I end up stopping right on the curb, usually knocking over a few rails just to squeeze in.”

Cyberpunk 2077’s Urban Design: An Homage to the Original RPG?

The original post doesn’t go deeper, but commenters were quick to dissect CD Projekt RED’s city planning decisions. “Cyberpunk [the pen-and-paper RPG] is peak exaggerated ’80s, and a lot of California cities had parking woes back then—like Mike Pondsmith’s hometown of Santa Cruz,” wrote CalamityAndTheApples.

Bakomusha chimed in with another classic Night City quirk: “You can tell Poles made this game because Night City has robust, well-kept public transportation and is super walkable.” Questenburg took it a step further, linking it to Cyberpunk 2013 lore: “It really lines up with the world-building from Cyberpunk 2013, which dates back to the real 1989. North Carolina was supposed to be a libertarian utopia with good housing and organized crime kept out. Of course, Richard Knight got shot, and then the corporations, gangs, and mobs took over until North Carolina became what we know and love.”

Let’s not forget, this is a video game, and CD Projekt RED likely skipped adding parking garages to pour resources into gameplay. Still, the debate highlights how, intentionally or not, Night City and Cyberpunk 2077 fit right into the universe established by the original tabletop RPG.

Source: GRY-Online