The working title of Cyberpunk 2077 before its final name was announced was Cyberpunk.
CD Projekt Red revealed the project in 2012 under the simple title Cyberpunk. The announcement identified it as a game based on Mike Pondsmith’s tabletop role-playing universe, but it did not yet use the year 2077 in its public name.
The final title, Cyberpunk 2077, was established later and signals the game’s future setting. The number also distinguishes the game’s era from earlier tabletop periods such as Cyberpunk 2020. The video game takes place decades after those earlier settings and presents a technologically advanced but socially fractured Night City.
Cyberpunk Red is not an earlier title for the video game. It is a later tabletop edition from R. Talsorian Games. Cyberpunk 2020 is another tabletop edition, while Cyberpunk was the name used in the game’s initial 2012 announcement.