Wet streets, signage, and colour with nowhere to hide.
Cyberpunk is a lighting problem before it's a setting. Take a dark scene, add several small, intensely saturated light sources in competing colours, and give them something reflective to bounce off — rain, glass, chrome, standing water. Everything else follows.
That structure is why these work so well on a desktop. The overall image is dark, so icon labels stay readable and the screen isn't fatiguing at night, but there's enough colour incident to keep the thing alive. Look for the compositions with deep perspective — a street receding, a skyline at distance — as they give you a lot of quiet mid-tone in the middle of the frame where your windows actually sit.
Tip: Neon-heavy images are the most prone to banding when your OS re-compresses them. Grab the PNG and, on Windows, consider the JPEGImportQuality registry fix.
11 wallpapers in this collection, all 3840 × 2160 PNG, free to download with no account. New to this? Start with the resolution guide.