Quick Facts on the Iguana Egg
The iguana egg in Cyberpunk 2077
Where to find it: Picked up during “The Heist” in Konpeki Plaza.
Where to put it: In the bowl on the tray in your apartment, once you’ve finished Playing for Time. It hatches into a full-grown iguana.
Hatch time: Roughly 90 in-game days once you’ve placed it. See what happens when it hatches.
Pro tip: Sleeping and fast travel burn through days fastest.
One of Night City’s quietest side stories starts with an egg you probably pocketed without thinking during The Heist. To actually hatch your pet iguana, though, you need to finish the “Playing for Time” mission, Act 2’s opening conversation with Goro Takemura at Tom’s Diner. Cross that threshold and Night City opens up, along with a tray in your apartment for the egg. Everything after that is a waiting game. Here’s exactly what unlocks when, and what it takes to get your iguana home.
The Trigger — Completing “Playing for Time”
“Playing for Time” is the main job that follows “The Heist” and the Johnny Silverhand flashback interlude “Love Like Fire.” V wakes up in a Badlands landfill after Yorinobu Arasaka’s coup at Konpeki Plaza, gets dragged out by Dexter DeShawn – all gold, chrome, and cigar smoke himself – under the orders of Takemura… who then summarily executes the legendary night city fixer with his own Plan B handgun.
Once V is patched up at Viktor’s Clinic, Takemura calls and asks for a meet at Tom’s Diner, a short walk south of V’s apartment in Megabuilding H10. Sitting down with him completes the job. He lays out his plan: prove Yorinobu murdered his father, Saburo Arasaka, with V as the witness, and use that leverage to get Arasaka’s help removing the Relic chip from V’s head. He gives V two leads to chase, Evelyn Parker and Anders Hellman, while he pursues a contact of his own inside Arasaka, his former protege, named Sandaya Oda. Once Takemura walks off, Johnny appears and pushes V to see Rogue Amendiares instead, setting up the tension between the corporate route and the Night City underworld that defines the rest of Act 2 – so there is lots of stuff flying after this mission, and the game really opens up.
Mechanically, this conversation is the switch that flips Night City from a linear prologue into an open world. Side jobs, gigs, and the pet iguana unlock all sit behind it. Everything below assumes it’s done.
How to Get the Pet Iguana
Where to find the iguana egg in konpeki plaza?
The egg itself comes earlier, during “The Heist” at the end of Act 1. Inside Yorinobu Arasaka’s penthouse at Konpeki Plaza, head to the first floor and look for the tree trunk near his adult iguana. The egg sits tucked behind it, loose, but closer to the entry door on the table than the adult iguana. Grab it and it sits in inventory with no obvious use until much later.
Can you still get the iguana egg if you missed it during the heist mission?
Missed it during the heist? It’s recoverable, not permanently gone. Players have found ways back into Konpeki Plaza later in the playthrough using parkour and mobility routes, though it takes some doing and isn’t officially signposted by the game. On PC, a console command through Cyber Engine Tweaks (Game.AddToInventory(“Items.q005_iguana_egg”)) is the reliable fallback if the physical route proves too tedious. On Xbox, I’ve used the parkour method in the past to get back in but that was before recent patches…
How do you get the iguana bowl and tray to appear?
Even with the egg in hand, there’s nowhere to put it until “Playing for Time” is complete. The bowl only spawns in V’s apartment afterward, on the long side table next to the lounge. Legacy PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game reportedly never got the bowl added at all, so console players on older hardware may want to check which version they’re running before chasing this one down.
Cyberpunk 2077 Iguana Egg Hatch Time: How Long It Takes, How to Speed It Up and What Happens
Once the egg is in the bowl, the wait is real: roughly 90 in-game days. Player reports vary between 50 and 90-plus days depending on how time is passed, but in-game time is the only thing that counts. Leaving the console idle in the real world does nothing. Sleeping in the apartment repeatedly or fast-traveling around Night City burns through in-game days far faster than playing in real time.
When it finally hatches, the pet iguana appears in the bowl’s spot. Petting it triggers a Johnny Silverhand cameo, and he’ll comment on it again on repeat visits.
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Iguana Egg Cyberpunk 2077 FAQ
Why won’t my iguana egg hatch?
It needs roughly 90 days of in-game time to pass after being placed in the bowl. Real-world idle time doesn’t count. Sleeping or fast-traveling repeatedly is the quickest way to push it forward.
Why can’t I place the iguana egg in the bowl?
The bowl doesn’t exist until “Playing for Time” is complete. If the mission isn’t done yet, there’s nowhere to put the egg regardless of whether it’s in inventory.
Can you still get the iguana egg if you missed it?
Yes. Konpeki Plaza is reachable again later in the playthrough through some extra effort, or via a console command on PC if a physical route proves too unreliable.
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