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'Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition' Releases For Apple Silicon Macs On 17 July
Wake up, samurai, a new platform of gamers are about to burn Night City, as CD Projekt RED has announced the release of Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition , which brings both the base game and its Phantom Liberty expansion in one complete package to Macs with Apple Silicon on 17 July 2025.
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition on Mac will also include all free content and updates released thus far, bringing its futuristic world to the platform for the first time. Utilising the power of Apple's Metal framework, the game will not only include modern gaming technologies like frame generation, but also a suite of Mac-exclusive features.
Using the 'For this Mac' graphical presets, the game will be optimised for each Apple Silicon Mac model, providing players with a smooth gameplay experience across a wide range of hardware, from the earlier M1 model Macs to the latest M4 chips, MacBooks, iMacs or Mac Studios.
To further ensure smooth performance, the game will make use of Apple's proprietary MetalFX upscaling, which uses spatial and temporal upscaling technologies in tandem to render high-resolution scenes from a lower resolution base, improving image quality while providing a substantial boost in framerates. Third-party technologies such as AMD's FSR upscaling and frame generation will also be available, with both being optimised for Apple Silicon.
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will also feature support for Apple peripherals, offering built-in head-tracked Spatial Audio exclusive to AirPods users, alongside compatibility with the Magic Mouse and Trackpad, with Apple XDR display users also receiving dynamically calibrated HDR support.
Apart from these features, the game is set to receive further updates later this year, adding Metal 4 features teased during its showcase at WWDC 2025, such as MetalFX Frame Interpolation, which further generates an intermediate frame for every two input frames, and when paired with MetalFX Upscaling, allows the game to hit a solid 120fps. MetalFX Denoising is also incoming, which will enable real-time path tracing on the game's highest quality graphics settings.
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will launch on 17 July 2025 on the Mac App Store, Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG.
Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise 'duds' like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3 . He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying. Apple CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition Mac
