Originally posted by King in Yellow:

Originally posted by Mako Ruu:

Steam uses their own version of Digital Rights Management (DRM.) Basically it just means you need to have the steam client open when launching and playing a game. Even if you're playing offline or without any Internet.

That's not true.

You can play the Steam version of the Witcher 3 without having to launch Steam. Opening the witcher3.exe from the game's folder will launch it regardless of Steam and internet connection.

I expect Cyberpunk to be the same, but no one can be sure at this point.