Cyberpunk 2077 Gangs of Night City Explained

The Cyberpunk 2077 gangs of Night City are not interchangeable street toughs — each one is built around a district, a philosophy, and a different relationship with cyberware.

The major players

• Maelstrom — Watson's industrial zone, obsessed with cybernetic augmentation as a way past the limits of flesh.
• Valentinos — the largest gang, controlling Latino sections of Heywood, bound by honour and brotherhood.
• Tyger Claws — Japantown, built around katanas, motorcycles and a Japanese-influenced aesthetic.
• Voodoo Boys — Pacifica netrunners chasing secrets buried in the Old Net.
• Animals — West Pacifica brawlers who reject cyberware for raw muscle and supplements instead.
• 6th Street — Vista Del Rey, founded by war veterans enforcing their own version of order.
• Moxes — formed to protect sex workers and the vulnerable from exploitation.
• Aldecaldos and Wraiths — rival nomad families out in the Badlands.
• Scavengers — organ and implant harvesters operating in the city's margins.
• Barghest — Dogtown's militarised operation of soldiers and mercenaries.

Knowing which controls which turf changes how you approach almost any street-level job in the city.