I have made a list of cyberpunk themed games. The list is of course incomplete ;)
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Shadows of Doubt is a detective noir 80s-esque cyberpunk game that I really enjoyed. Setting aside, it’s an exploration in procedurally-generated-everything it seems, each person’s ‘city’ should be different than the next.
I hear some of the newer Shadowrun games are good; in particular I keep hearing about Shadowrun: Dragonfall. But I can’t speak to it directly and the addition of orcs/elves/magic puts some folk off.
Not quite -punk-, but Uplink is a fun game about global scale hacking ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/ ). Does not require any actual knowledge of hacking and teaches all of it’s mechanics in game, so don’t worry about learning curves too much.
I should really get around to playing Cloudpunk sometime. I was following the game for ages before it came out and bought it on release, then just never played it for some reason. It seems right up my alley too.
I also started Cloudpunk only briefly and then somehow lost the desire, but was not the game but simply the time when I started it. Maybe I’ll look at it again in the fall
It’s pretty good! I owned it for a long time until I finally installed it and got through it. The core gameplay loop got a smidge repetitive for me, but the story is solid enough that I thought it was worthwhile. An RPG called Nivalis that takes place in the same city is being made although it’s release date is still up in the air, if that gives you any reason to go ahead and give it a shot.
Yea I’ve heard that about the gameplay, but as long as the story is good enough I don’t think I’ll mind too much. I’ll put it next on my list I think. Also just noticed its on sale on steam atm for anyone else reading.
It’s very indie but I’ve actually worked on Danger Scavenger (and on this trailer a bit too!)
Maybe you would wanna add it to the list https://questlog.app/games/danger-scavenger
is such an incredible list!
Incidentally, I’m currently working (very slowly due to my issues) on a sprawling gothic hyper-transhumanist cyberpunk interactive fiction game focused on creating a rich, novel-quality story, a fractally-detailed and heavily atmospheric world inspired both by regular cyberpunk and works like The Crow and Dark City, and naturalistic story-focused gameplay.
The gameplay will be focused around your dialogue choices with other characters and solving various obsticles designed to enhance your immersion in the world instead of pulling you out, realistic problems like figuring out who and how to talk to the right people at a night market to get illegal weapons, or how to get into your apartment to get your stuff back after you’ve been evicted. The problem solving gameplay (with usually more than one solution to every obsticle) is inspired by immersive sims like Deus Ex.
It’ll deal with themes of positive transhumanism (so, modifying yourself, being an expression of your own identity ans values, makes you more yourself, even if it makes you less “human” — the opposite of the message cyberpsychosis is meant to carry) and questions of anarchist insurrectionism and nihilism.
Have you played Disco Elysium? The game deals with similar issues self-expression, identify, politics, and social problems. That being said, If you’ve not played Disco Elysium, it’s worth a try. I can’t recommend it enough. One of the most memorable games I’ve played in years.
It’s very, very high on my list, especially since I adore story heavt isometric cRPGs. I’ve just spent collectively two out of the last three years dealing with PPCS, so I haven’t gotten around to it lol
