Found in almost every side quest, storyline, and hidden Easter egg, there’s an overabundance of Datashards in Cyberpunk 2077. It’s easy to ignore or even miss out on each one and players can miss out on some surprisingly fascinating details about the game.

Cracking Datashards grants some hidden access to eddies and some can even add extra layers to the overall plotlines and history of Night City. Here are a few missable Datashard gems players may have missed.

10 Lizzy Wizzy

One of Night City’s biggest celebrities is Lizzy Wizzy. An award-winning musician and performance artist, her body is almost entirely artificial chrome from head to toe. Her entire character is an erotic and Cybernetic take on Snow White.

Reading the shards ‘Supernova’ and ‘The Unofficial Diary of Lizzy Wizzy’ reveals how Lizzy ate a poisoned synthetic apple and died as a live performance, only to be revived by Ripperdocs who swapped out most of Lizzy’s human body for chrome, before unnaturally resuming her performance the same day.

9 Militech Datashard

Early in the game is a mission with Jackie called ‘The Pickup’ where V has to choose whether to side with The Maelstrom or Militech factions. However, before the mission, V has the option of meeting with a Militech agent, a woman named Meredith Stout.

Meredith offers V a Militech Datashard to use for his exchange with the Maelstrom. Players can select the ‘Militech Datashard’ in the journal before the mission, and upon breaking its encryption, choose to steal the money and/or virus on the chip.

8 Watson Diary

The ‘Watson Whore’ Diary shard can be found at Lizzie’s Bar or the Max-imum pleasure shop in Vista del Rey. A firsthand account from the perspective of one of the series’ main cast, Watson Whore is likely a parody inspired by a Polish reality show called Warsaw Shore.

Ads for Watson Whore can be found almost everywhere throughout the Cyberpunk world. Reading the shard reveals some sleazy and promiscuous daily misadventures. Unsurprisingly, Warsaw Shore was also in fact influenced by another reality show favorite, the Jersey Shore.

7 Murkman

In a secret tunnel deep in the badlands, you can find a hidden shipping container that spawns at night. In it, holds a black Rayfield Caliburn, a legendary vest, and some gas grenades, along with a shard called ‘Read This Every Day. Never Give Up. Remember Your Purpose’.

An homage to Batman, this Murkman manifesto describes the hero as someone whose parents were murdered. Calling himself the man Night City doesn’t deserve, Murkman is said to protect Night City delivering vengeance, destruction, and justice.

6 Saburo Arasaka’s Diary

Despite his legendary status, little is known about CEO Saburo Arasaka or his motivations. That is unless, players choose to secretly scale to the roof of Arasaka Tower during the game’s main act one quest, The Heist.

Up there is a diary shard entitled ‘Diary (117-121/77)’ which reveals the inner thoughts about the Arasaka patriarch, revealing that Saburo greatly cares for his daughter, Hanako. He also is someone that wouldn’t hesitate to destroy all of Night City to destroy his enemies if the need arises.

5 Mythbusters

In the desert just outside of Night City alongside Rancho Coronado, is a body stuffed in a fridge that resembles host Adam Savage. Who appears to be testing whether a refrigerator would actually protect from a nuclear blast like in Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull.

You can find the Datashard ‘Archived Conversation: Steven Hurt and Jim McHale’ on the corpse’s body. Reading the shard reveals that Steven is someone who debunks myths just like Savage does on Mythbusters.

4 The Fall Of The First Net

Rache Bartmoss is sort of the unofficial guide to the Cyberpunk world. The creator of the Demon subroutine malware that most netrunners utilize in hacking, Bartmoss was also the author of the official Guide to The Net.

Reading the shards ‘The Undoing: Fall of the First Net’ and ‘Spellbook’ describes how Bartmoss had so skillfully taken down the first internet thinking that it would be humanity’s salvation. Instead, what resulted was a world of fragmented subnets abused by corporations, police, and criminals alike.

3 Family Matters And Cyberpsychosis

Cyberpsychosis is a severe state of mental illness where due to a brain overload by cybernetic augmentation, a person’s sanity breaks. There are several missions that feature the worst in cyberpsychosis, but it’s really the mission Family Matters which showcases its progressive state.

Reading the Datashard ‘Illness Diary’ reveals the story of Juliet Horrigan’s desperate attempts to treat her sister Rose Harrigan’s Cyberpsychosis until she fully succumbed. Going downstairs players can even encounter a manic Rose Harrigan wielding a kitchen knife.

2 CJ And Little Smoke

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was a critically acclaimed game about gangster rap culture set in the 1990s. The series was the introduction of Grand Theft Auto’s first black male protagonist, and for many reasons, is still beloved by many fans.

On a set of train tracks, you can find a reference to Carl Johnson along with Melvin ‘Big Smoke’ Harris from San Andreas. The archived conversation shard entitled ‘CJ and Little Smoke’ is a parody of the meme ‘Follow The Dann Train, CJ!’ from GTA.

1 Ciri

For a game about a techno-futuristic society, there’s also, a lot of callbacks to classic literature including references to ‘Ovid’s Metamorphoses’ along with excerpts from both of Homer’s epic poems: ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’.

But what’s most striking is a book entitled the ‘Chronicles of Titania: Book 1’. A book describes a strikingly charming woman that’s crossed worlds. Given her speech, mannerisms, and references to her feudal home, it’s implied that this book might be about or based on Ciri from The Witcher 3.

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