Every Cyberpunk RED Book and Product: What Each One Adds and What to Buy First

Start here: the three entry points#

These are the books you need to play at all. Everything else assumes you have the core rules or Easy Mode.

• Cyberpunk RED Jumpstart Kit (2019): A boxed starter that debuted at Gen Con in August 2019, before the core book. Two booklets (rules, and lore plus adventures), six pregenerated characters, a quick reference sheet, maps, standees and dice. Its rules are a simplified take on the core game, and a free Jumpstart Kit Conversion Guide shows how to move its missions into the core rules.
• Cyberpunk RED core rulebook (2020): The full game, 456 pages. Digital went out on 14 November 2020 and print on 19 November, a few weeks before Cyberpunk 2077. It has all ten roles, cyberware, weapons, netrunning, the Lifepath, setting material from the 4th Corporate War to Night City in 2045, and three Screamsheet adventures.
• Cyberpunk RED Easy Mode (2022): A free 48-page introduction with the basic rules, five pregens (Rockerboy, Solo, Tech, Medtech, Media) and a mission, Getting Paid. The PDF is free and print-on-demand copies cost what it takes to print and ship them.

Tools for the table#

These are cheap and unglamorous, and they are the things most likely to improve a session.

• Gamemaster Screen (2021): Four panels of data and four panels of art. It was first sold as the Data Screen. The contents did not change when the name did.
• Data Pack (2021): Twelve maps of locations every game needs, encounter tables, official character sheets and a booklet of new Screamsheet adventures.
• Netrunning Deck (2021): Poker-sized cards for building and running a NET Architecture: 16 Program cards, 30 Black ICE cards, 3 Demon cards and 11 Floor cards. See the RED netrunning guide.
• Single Player Mode (2025): A solo and GM-less play guide by Peter Norton of HollowPonds Solo Saga and J Gray. It needs the core rulebook and has oracles, solo investigations and combat, mission builders and more than 100 random tables.

Sourcebooks and supplements#

Pick these by problem. A gear nerd needs one book, a lazy GM needs another.

• Black Chrome (2023): A tech and style guide with more than 170 items: apps, gear, linear frames, weapons, cyberware, vehicles, fashion and armor, plus economics and lore about Megacorps and Neocorps. A revised reprint with a full errata that brought the weapons in line with newer books was back in stock in July 2026.
• Danger Gal Dossier (2023): NPC book. Mooks, Lieutenants, Mini-Bosses and Bosses, both standard and hardened, plus faction write-ups and advice on building your own people.
• Interface RED Volume 1 (2021): Collects early downloadable content and adds an article on drones. Includes Old Guns Never Die, a step-by-step conversion of Cyberpunk 2020 weapons into RED.
• Interface RED Volume 2 (2023): More collected DLC plus Exotics of 2045, an article on Biotechnica's Bioexotics.
• Interface RED Volume 3 (2024): More collected DLC plus Going Metal, rules for full body conversions.
• Interface RED Volume 4 (2025): More collected DLC plus Cyberfists of Fury, an article on martial arts.
• Interface RED Volume 5 (2026): The largest one so far at 148 pages. Includes Breaking Your Stuff (item damage and malfunctions), Chasing the Rabbit (roller derby), All About Agents, and the exclusive Solo of Fortune 2045 with military-grade gear and combat drugs.
• Night City 2045 (2026): A sourcebook of more than 300 pages covering the city's geography, history and law, 24 districts, 44 gangs, 6 criminal organizations, 23 security providers, over 600 locations and 99 stat blocks. The PDF went on sale in April 2026 and the print edition followed in June. For the 2077 version of the city see the Night City page.

Missions and spin-offs#

If you do not want to write adventures, these are the ones to buy.

• Tales of the RED: Street Stories (2022): A mission book with nine full-length missions: gangs, rogue AI, a submarine ride, movie stars and cyberpsychos.
• Tales of the RED: Hope Reborn (2024): A six-job campaign set around the Forlorn Hope, a Night City bar in trouble in the Time of the Red. It spans styles of play from firefights to a heist.
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit (2024): A standalone box set released on 21 June 2024 that uses the RED rules for the era of the anime, with 2070-era guns, cyberware and quickhacks, a mission called The Jacket, seven pregens, dice, maps and standees. See Edgerunners.
• Cyberpunk RED: Combat Zone (2023): A tabletop miniatures wargame by R. Talsorian Games and Monster Fight Club. A skirmish game, not an RPG supplement.

Free DLC and what's coming#

R. Talsorian puts out free downloadable content for RED, usually one piece a month, plus errata, a Night Market Index and a Cyberpunk RED Checklist on its website. Check that page before you buy a gear book, because a lot of what shows up in Interface RED started as a free download.

A Cyberpunk 2077 campaign book was announced at Gen Con 2025. The plan was a rules section for the Edgerunners and 2077 era and a multi-mission campaign, made with CD PROJEKT RED, aiming for 2026. No release date has been confirmed. A book called Rusted Chrome was put on hold at the same convention.

Fixer's notes: what to buy and in what order#

Opinion: Easy Mode, then the core book, then a Gamemaster Screen and Data Pack if you are the GM. That is the whole kit for a campaign. Skip the Jumpstart Kit unless you find it cheap and want the standees and dice.

Opinion: add Night City 2045 only when your campaign is firmly in the city, add Tales of the RED if you do not want to write missions, add Danger Gal Dossier if you are tired of making NPCs, and add Black Chrome if your players spend more time in the Night Market than on jobs. Interface RED is the book for people who already know what they are missing.

Opinion: buy the Edgerunners Mission Kit if your table came for the anime. It is the only boxed starter built for that era.

Physical copies are on the R. Talsorian Store, digital on DriveThruRPG, and R. Talsorian lists Roll20, Demiplane's Cyberpunk RED Nexus and Fantasy Grounds for online play. If you are still deciding what to play, read the Cyberpunk RED overview and then 2020 vs RED.