Elden Ring VS Cyberpunk 2077
▸ WHICH ONE HOLDS UP BETTERBoth land in the same place on our verdict scale, with no clear scorecard edge either way. The difference is in the specifics — read each PixProof's full evidence below for what actually separates them for your use case.
Verdict🟢 PLAY IT🟢 PLAY IT
The RealityIndependent critics overwhelmingly confirmed the game delivered on this specific combination. It achieved Metacritic scores of 97 (PS5) and 95 (PC/Xbox Series X|S), and became OpenCritic's highest-rated game of all time with a 97 Top Critic Average. Reviewers specifically praised the open-world execution as living up to comparisons with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild while retaining FromSoftware's signature difficulty and design depth, describing the combination as living up to the pre-release hype 'with casual, almost contemptuous ease.' The game went on to win Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2022.The December 2020 launch was a real, well-documented disaster on last-gen consoles: severe bugs and performance issues led Sony to take the unprecedented step of pulling the game entirely from the PlayStation Store and offering refunds — a real event confirmed directly by Sony's own statement, not just user complaints. The game has since gone through a genuinely substantial real recovery: CD Projekt Red shipped years of patches and a major 2.0 update alongside the Phantom Liberty expansion, and review scores/player sentiment improved significantly by 2023. SHORT ANSWERElden Ring: Elden Ring's pre-release pitch of fusing FromSoftware's Souls-like difficulty with a genuinely open world is confirmed by independent critics: it became OpenCritic's highest-rated game of all time, with reviewers specifically praising the open-world execution as living up to the hype.
Cyberpunk 2077: Yes, today — but the game had a genuinely disastrous 2020 launch severe enough that Sony delisted it from the PlayStation Store entirely. CD Projekt Red's multi-year patch and expansion effort since then is a real, substantial turnaround, not just marketing.