Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 ends with something almost surprising for this franchise: some characters looking forward to tomorrow. Without spoiling too much, the season 2 finale delivers plenty of devastating TV moments, like season 1, but several of its central characters survive with relationships worth holding onto and lives they still want to live. Naturally, that makes another more direct follow-up that much more enticing.
Whether another installment will follow those characters is a different question. CD Projekt Red has described both Edgerunners stories as standalone projects, and its creators have outlined an approach that gives different filmmakers room to explore the same world. What does all of this actually mean for the Netflix series moving forward?
Here’s what we know about a potential Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 3, what the creators have said about the franchise’s future, and how season 2 leaves room for more. There’s no confirmed release date, cast, or production schedule just yet for season 3. Edgerunners 2 arrived on Netflix on Oct. 20 — though Netflix is sometimes known to announce a new season shortly after the preceding season’s release.
There are, however, good reasons to think the series could accommodate more stories. The creators have discussed developing Edgerunners through different directors’ interpretations of its central themes, and the first two installments demonstrate how separate casts can inhabit an interconnected Night City. Standalone storytelling has been part of Edgerunners from the beginning.
CD Projekt Red’s June 2020 announcement introduced the original as a “standalone, 10-episode story.” Its July 2025 announcement described the follow-up as “a new standalone anime series featuring a brand-new cast of characters.” David Martinez’s story could end while Edgerunners continued. The same principle could apply after season 2. Writer and story creator Bartosz Sztybor and producer Saya Elder previously described the show to Polygon as an anthology built around shared themes and different creative visions.
Sztybor cited the first four Alien movies as inspiration, emphasizing how each director gave the franchise a distinct style. His ambition for Edgerunners was to preserve its “core themes, but to experiment,” giving individual directors the freedom to develop their own interpretations of the world. That approach is already visible in the second installment.
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