Main Quests or Main Jobs are quests that follow the main story in Cyberpunk 2077 and Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. The quests are ordered by act, and then by the order in which they are normally started within the act, but can be sorted alphabetically for searching.
Each quest will only appear in the act in which it starts, even if the job persists through more than one single act. To see a job walkthrough, click on the job name.
The prologue takes place in 2076 and establishes V's background, consisting of a several basic tasks which also act as tutorials for a number of gameplay elements. The first three prologue jobs listed below are mutually exclusive, and the one which you play will depend on which lifepath that was chosen during character customization. All three prologues introduce V to the Night CityMercenary named Jackie Welles.
Act 1 begins after finishing the prologue, a 6-month montage is played, in which Jackie Welles and V acquaint themselves with Night City and are starting to make a name for themselves, eventually leading them to a Scavenger Den in Japantown, on a gig for WestbrookFixerWakako Okada.
The interlude occurs between the end of Act 1 and start of Act 2, directly after V is shot in the head by Dexter DeShawn, and is played from the perspective of Johnny Silverhand in the year 2023.
During the interlude, the regular in-game map and inventory are unavailable.
Act 2 begins after V recovered from their injury. At this point, the entirety of Night City becomes available for exploration and free-roam activities.
After talking with Goro Takemura, the main quest branches off into multiple quests that requires you to investigate other paths.
The section of the main quest Tapeworm will automatically be triggered after completing any of the paths. After Tapeworm has been completed, Act 3 will automatically start.
Act 3 begins after ending Tapeworm. You are now able to visit Hanako Arasaka at Embers during Nocturne Op55N1. This quest contains the Point of No Return for the main story. Once you use the elevator to enter Embers, any other quests in the journal will be marked as failed, and you will no longer be able to free-roam Night City. The jobs that follow are determined by dialogue option choices.
This path is only available if you chose the correct dialogue options during the side quest Chippin' In, requiring you to have given Johnny Silverhand a second chance.
This ending requires completing Phantom Liberty either with King of Swords or King of Pentacles. This is the only option that doesn't require starting Nocturne Op55N1, or even Act 3 at all.
A quest to track your progress until you can start the Phantom Liberty expansion starts after completing Love Like Fire, that is named after the expansion itself, and requires you to have completed Evelyn Parker and Alt Cunningham's investigations in Act 2.
After completing Transmission, V will be contacted by an unknown caller asking them to go to Dogtown, with the promise of knowing a way to save V's life, starting Phantom Liberty's quest path.
This path opens up by choosing to side with Songbird during Firestarter. Later on, another decision will be made which determines the epilogue for this specific path.
During early development of Cyberpunk 2077, it was decided to name the quests after songs, choosing which name was best depending on the quest's motif. Not only this, but the chosen songs were music Johnny Silverhand would've liked. This is why the earliest quests in the game, before meeting Johnny, have generic names instead of song ones.[1]
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