Whats your favorite cyberpunk themed game?

Personally I absolutely dig Neotokyo, you can see where the inspiration for it's artstyle and theme comes from, and the soundtrack is absolutely beautiful, really helps nail the atmosphere down. Even though it's mostly dead a dedicated community still gathers around every friday, so I can usually find a decent amount of people to play with if the server they use isn't filled up.

>>2317 OP said game, not anime retard

I'm torn between Deus Ex and Neotokyo. I miss the prime of neotokyo so much, now it's kinda dead all the time excepting on friday nights >>2317 >>2327 Great thread guise

>>2329 The Deus Ex games are great, even Jensen saga ones hold up pretty well, especially in atmosphere. Shame the way Squeenix fuarrrked up MD during their episodic hardon

Neon Chrome. Altho Jydge has better looking levels.

Assassin's Creed: Chicago

I really liked Dreamweb at the time it was out on the Amiga. Had a really mood to it. Had cyberpunk themes but perhaps its more strictly dreampunk, (as its more focused on visions than jacking in) if that's a thing.

FIFA 20

>>2315 does LARPING shadowrun IRL count? on an aside note, that one game in cyberpunk france had some good asthetic, IIRC it was called "remember me"

What about Mirror's Edge?

>>2386 I wish this game's style was used more. It feels more like the future to me, this bright and clean "Apple Store" aesthetic, than classic cyberpunk does.

>>2391 Man ME's world is great, nothing is ever in your face, no flying drones, holograms or other high tech sci-fi stuff happening, Buildings are based off of architecture you can see today, some of them look like buildings you can find in Tokyo, and any information about the world is told through the news screens on elevators or computers, and theres always a camera placed somewhere on the path you're running.

Ruiner was pretty good.

>>2386 Yes mirror's edge. I really like the escalation of the character models from beat cops to diet riot cops to riot cops to runner cops. I think the character designs become increasingly intimidating over the course of the game. Also, trackmania^2 is racing game where you play as a fully autonomous race car driving around a completely automated abandoned super track. At some point humanity mysteriously vanished without a trace and it's unclear how much time has passed since the apocalypse. Now the machines just drive forever, racing for no one, striving to go faster, faster, faster.

>>2415 Pursuit cops were the scariest thing when you encounter them, they shrug off all your punches, can't disarm their tasers and take you down quick. I've gotten good at wiping the floor with them over the years though.

>>2420 What really spooks me is how they run slightly faster, and I can hear their footsteps getting louder and louder as they run me down like a wild animal. To keep harping on about mirror's edge, I also think the plot fits very well into the cyberpunk genre: your sister is framed for murdering a prominent politician, and you have to clear her name. The ending is pretty ambiguous but I hardly think that destroying the Shard would put a dent in the police state. I'm sure that Faith and her sister are happily going to be on the lamb for the rest of their lives... as a family. I really like OG mirror's edge. I want to see more of their world that they built.

I already posted on this thread, but since I'm coming back for recommendations, I'll post some of my favorites that haven't been posted already for others to try if they want. >Soul Hackers / Shin Megami Tensei in general Pic related, RPG family of games with god rejection, gigant ass corporations and man-machine interfaces to summon demons. General /cyb/ tones in almost all of its games. >VA-11 HALL-A Comfy visual novel where you're the bartender of a soykaf dumpster city, and the characters are everyday joes who can't/won't leave the city for different reasons. Developed by venezuelans who were pretty much living on their own dystopia. >E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy RPG/First Person Shooter inspired by the W40K universe about an eternal war between two factions. Environments are /cyb/ as fuarrrk. Check your leg status. >Shadowrun series Isometric RPG. I mean come on it's shadowrun. >System Shock series You're a hacker who got caught hacking and you either go to prison or help the corporation stop the rogue AI that runs a space station. >Watch_Dogs >Ok but seriously the atmosphere of the first game is amazing. Though kinda mediocre game. Second one's objectively bettter but it's also way less /cyb/ than the first game.

>>2432 >Soul Hackers I had to choose between soul hackers and strange journey at the gamestop. I picked strange journey. I like strange journey a lot, but it sounds like I would have enjoyed soul hackers a lot more.

>>2436 Honestly tough choice, I love both of them. Soul Hackers is way more /cyb/ but the dungeon design in strange journey is top fuarrrking notch.

Aesthetically, E.Y.E; thematically, Deus Ex 1 is *more* relevant now than when it was released and is peak cyberpunk gaming

Dystopia is another /cyb/ mod on the source engine that's pretty cool

>>2315 Bloodnet, 1993, MicroProse

If blacklight retribution ever comes back it won't be the same as when it was first teased back in 2012.

here's a lowkey /cyb/ vidya - Half-Life 2 >>2386 came to post this. as >>2391 said the Mirror's Edge aesthetic is not only a breath of fresh air in the genre but accurate - the sterilized future, under heavy surveillance not to mention a first-person parkour game with combat as secondary is very unique

>>2315 I actually really liked Shadowrun: Dragonfall but there's another game in the back of my head that I forgot.

I really liked the cloaking mechanics in Neotokyo. It would be great to see more games explore something similar.

>>2618 Honestly I love the original ME because the surveillance isn't in your face like in the sequel, but if you look around you can always find a camera or two on the path you're going down, the news propaganda and news helicopters tipping off the cops. The fact that people and possibly even corporations might be hiring runners to deliver sensitive information because transferring it normally or digitally is a bad idea. It never goes into that high-tech generic sci-fi surveillance state, everything that you need to know is in the environment you run past and stopping to look around rewards you with some nice amounts of lore.

>>2334 That plaster looks painful to walk on and I live in a city where there are several roads that are a few hundred years old. >>2386 The parkour mechanics were extraordinary, great game. I think Metal Gear Solid IV had alot of /cyb/ aspects. The frog soldiers are cool as hell too.

>>2674 MGS4 just keeps bringing me in, the art direction has that stylized-realistic look and despite how old it is, made it age pretty well.

For those who may not have heard, GOG released Blade Runner which was reverse engineered by the ScummVM community recently. I have to grab my copy and see how it works.

Games further down are less cyberpunk > TIS-100, EXAPUNKS, SHENZEN I/O All by Zachtronics. > RUINER i hope you like the color red > Shadowrun games on steam Cyber-Fantasy. Content packs too expensive for playthrought length. Some decent fan-made campaigns but pain in the ass to find. > Playing DnD-like Cyberpunks games with actual humans online It is an option, just saying. I have not done so yet > baba is you Hack the tilemap > Kenshi Weird post apocalyptic world simulation. Just listen to this fuarrrking guy and you will get the right vibe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXo24imR_54 > INSIDE its like LIMBO but more cyberpunk > Deep Rock Galactic Surprisingly fun. Braindead FPS PVE COOP slaughterfest. More scifi than cyberpunk but arguably adjacent > Crypt of the Necrodancer The Spotify Machine learning thingy thinks this is culturally adjacent so sue me bitch UPCOMING > Industries of Titan > Cyberpunk 2077 > Half life alyx VR only

>>2682 i've never stuck it out with a point-and-click ScummVM game like that. GOG comments seem to love it. Worth playing?

Classic late 90s cyberpunk anime if it was a third person fighting game developed by Bungie just before Halo came out. Essential in every regard

I don't really have a favorite, but I do like Snatcher a lot >>2696 I haven't played Blade Runner yet, but I suggest you play Beneath a Steel Sky, nice cyberpunk adventure too

>>2337 Wow fuarrrking hell, those lemmings look serious.

Hardwar, easily

Dex is a neat side-scrolling action RPG with beat 'em up style combat. Big fan of the Shadowrun series as well. UnderRail is a good turn-based isometric RPG similar to Fallout 1 and 2 though I never finished it.

>>2405 >>2684 I played Ruined based on the recommendations in this thread. The gameplay is fine, although unremarkable. But the art style is top fuarrrking notch. Like a living, breathing cyberpunk comic book.

was playing a lot of NT years ago, mostly on Rain's server we even had a tournament which was about the time I dropped out of the game, ping was pretty bad for me sometimes being on the other side of the world to servers... Still had a lot of fun in that game, one of the best Free to Play games I've played with real solid game-play and i'm sure it's still happening today, might see if I can get it to run on this cyber-deck...

>>2776 Art style, atmosphere, and soundtrack are the reason I kept playing that game. Top fuarrrking notch.

>>2777 Oh yeah every Friday people gather around to play together, sometimes Saturday or Sunday.

>>2776 Yesssss. You know, sometimes that's perfectly valid. I don't always need revolutionary, innovative, challenging gameplay. Sometimes I just want to really immerse and totally fall into the world they crafted, explore and admire it. Sometimes just the atmosphere is more than enough and anything else is just a bonus. Not always of course, but it's something I love to have in my library.

Megaman Battle Network 2 or 3.

>>2913 In which Timezone do you live, Lain? I never played the game before, downloaded it today and enjoyed the empty servers,desu. Would be nice to play some rounds.

>>2315 Obviously Final Fantasy 7.

Ghostrunner is coming someday. FPS action like Doom (2016). Cloudpunk is another that is coming someday, you drive a bladerunner car delivering packages and stuff, flying through a voxel cyberpunk city

>>2415 Didn't know that Trackmania has a background story.

>>2927 There used to be a racing game based on the universe from the fifth element, probably available somewhere out there as abandonware.

Finally, after 22 years, I got it. I have no regrets.Maybe angered by mam.

>>2943 Is it any good ?

>>2944 Of course, it is new and good condition. But I still don't have the courage to open it. I was satisfied just looking at it...

>>2945 Don't open it, download a rom and use that. Preservation is the art of disiplin.

>>2943 I've seen so many screenshots of the game, I desperately want it. If you ever play it let me know if it's any good.

>>2946 >>2947 I think it may get into your hand someday. As it happens, I just have. When I was little, I played samples at game shops, but at the time I thought it was a form of new game. However, if you play it now, it is up to you to enjoy it as a game.

Max Headroom Neuromancer Hacker Syndicate Ripper Blade Runner Under a Steel Sky Cyberia Vall-Hall-A Neocron Deus Ex

>>2405 I loved the levels of Ruiner, the bosses can eat a bag of dicks, though.

>>2947 Why not just emulate it? There's ROMs and fan translations of it. Also, this site with all cutscenes: https://laingame.net/index.php?site=0#l4

>>2405 RUINER is fuarrrking awesome. Extremely hard, but tons of fun and it drips S T Y L E. I am kind of suprised by how little I see people mention this game, it even has full linux support.

Idk what to think of the newer deus ex games. I played MD like a year ago and am half way through HR now. I don't follow gaming news and I'm obviously late on this one anyway, but I'm vaguely aware that people liked MD and didn't like HR, and I don't get why. The plot of both games is pretty stupid to be honest, particularly the aug racism thing from the second game (it kind if made sense in context, but frankly the context was already pretty stupid to begin with). If they wanted to do a gritty story about future prejudice they should have picked an actual race because it's pretty hard to take cattle cars full of "augs" seriously. At the end of the day it feels like they were pulling punches because they didn't want to upset people by getting "too political" in a game about the literal Illuminati. On the other hand, I feel like HR was a better game than MD in pretty much every way. The Prague setting is more interesting and better realized than Detroit. The characters and side quests were more interesting. You seem to have more options in the way the story progresses (I haven't finished it yet, so I could be wrong, and both are definitely worse in this department than the original deus ex). I will say, HR keeps pestering me in menus and such to install an (I assume) defunct cell phone app and there seems to be some kind of microtransaction thing related to your outfits but I've completely ignored both and it hasn't impacted me.

>>3133 You got that backwards, HR was considered good when it released while MD was hated by its rushed and retarded plot and the ridiculous preorder bonuses you could only use once ever.

Syndicate wars, easily

>most of my favorites are already mentioned Future Cop: LAPD idk if it can be considered cyberpunk, but does have some aesthetics of it.

>>3133 I enjoyed MD for gameplay and that is about it. I do like Adam as a character but not really anything else. Original Deus Ex is far superior in every instance, you know there is an issue when a game made years beforehand is better than what they came out with later.

no one mentioned coded arms coded arms

>>2925 Every Friday evening UK time we're playing

No one has mentioned Cataclysm DDA, which is very cyberpunk unless you're considering it from a purely aesthetic standpoint. It's a free, open source roguelike set after an apocalyptic event brought about by clandestine government laboratories' investigation into intradimensional technology, wiping out the vast majority of humanity & unleashing various lovecraftian plagues on earth. You get to custom make deathmobiles from scrap, chug mutagens to become anything from a rat to a mi-go, pack your body full of cybernetic implants (from synaptic accelerators to monomolecular blades to arm-implanted railguns to fuccing alarm clocks), really whatever you want while cruising the bleeding husk of new england. best soykaf ever

>>3156 Not cyb, but a really cool and fun game. >>3176 Sounds neat, opensauce you say? Got a url?

>>3177 https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA Kind of playing fast and loose with 'cyberpunk' as a description. I'd say it's exploring a world wracked & eventually killed by this dystopian cyberpunk future, but it's not heavily aestheticized in a 'high tech low life' way, or with the noir tone or imagined futures -- its world very closely resembles our world but with the ability to explore BSL-IV labs, D.U.M.Bs, XEDRA research facillities, and where incredible consumer technology has just hit the markets but it's still just new england as we know it. >>2684 Love Kenshi so much. highly recommend.

>>3177 Also: https://github.com/SomeDeadGuy/UndeadPeopleTileset if you play with tiles this is the best pack besides retrodays. Not a fan of the mildly cartoonish style but it's the most complete. Also this soundpack: https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musicpack-co-ag-musicpack-redux-11-dec-2019/18992

>>2640 How did the cloaking in neo-tokyo work?

>Jet Set Radio + Jet Radio future Your basically playing a crew of punks fighting other street gangs and a evil corporation thats trying to take over "New-Tokyo" >N.E.O Scavenger This isnt "Really" cyberpunk for the most part but a significant part of the game takes place in this Blade-Runner esque Neo-Detroit thats basically full on "Eating chinese food in the rain while wearing a duster" energy

>>2674 MGS2 might be the most philosophically /cyb/ game ever, and the whole franchise is quintessential cyb.

Project E.D.E.N. is a Cyb/Sci-fi early 2000s game that was criminally overlooked imo. It was definitely a bit big for it's britches anyway, with some pretty unique and interesting mechanics you only find in PC titles and... Perfect Dark (another honorable mention). EDEN also has 4 player coop. I've never finished it, but I plan too this week. Always been in love with it's mechanics and world (despite the jenk it's loaded with).

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>>3210 Also, Eliza was kinda neet

Got into this AI text adventure game today. It has a cyberpunk mode. Its pretty awesome. https://play.aidungeon.io/

>>3148 >>3148 Thx for reminding me of Syndicate. I went and bought Satellite Reign. Its slow on this laptop but tactical and moody.

Not my favorite game by any stretch of the word, but somebody linked this on year a couple years ago and I really enjoyed it. It's really short and not much of a game really but I enjoyed the atmosphere. https://gamejolt.com/games/bernband/34864

Cyberpunk with an "open world": System Shock System Shock 2 Satellite Reign Dex If you are an AAA-wanker who completely refuses to play anything insufficiently pumped with money and graphics, and, as well as unaccepting of tactical games and adventure games, then here is a short list of relatively good graphics relatively expensive games: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Deus Ex: Human Revolution Syndicate (2012) Remember Me Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Deus Ex: Mankind Divided If you like the" old " graphics, I recommend: System Shock 2, Deus Ex1, Deus Ex: Invisible War. If you are looking for adventure games, RPGs, tactics, strategies, I would recommend: Frozen Synapse Shadowrun Returns Shadowrun: Dragonfall The Fall Satellite Reign STASIS Invisible, Inc. Shadowrun: Hong Kong VA-11 HALL-A CAYNE observer_ State of Mind EXAPUNKS All Walls Must Fall - A Tech-Noir Tactics Game The Fall Part 2: Unbound Frozen Synapse 2 The Red Strings Club Sigma Theory Eliza In general, here is an incomplete list of cyberpunk games by year (some of them are pixel indie adventures, there are a couple of pixel non-adventures, I warned): 1988 Neuromancer Snatcher 1989 Interphase 1993 Syndicate BloodNet Shadowrun 1994 System Shock Beneath a Steel Sky 1995 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream 1996 Syndicate Wars Shadowrun 1999 System Shock 2 2000 Deus Ex 2002 Paradise Cracked 2003 Deus Ex: Invisible War 2004 COPS 2170: The Power of Law 2008 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 2011 Deus Ex: Human Revolution Frozen Synapse Hard Reset 2012 Syndicate Cypher: Cyberpunk Text Adventure 2013 Remember Me Gemini Rue Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Shadowrun Returns 2014 Shadowrun: Dragonfall 2015 Satellite Reign STASIS 2064: Read Only Memories Technobabylon Invisible Apartment Else Heart.Break() Invisible, Inc. Dex Cradle Shadowrun: Hong Kong 2016 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided VA-11 HALL-A System Crash 2017 CAYNE observer_ Tokyo 42 Ruiner 2018 State of Mind EXAPUNKS All Walls Must Fall - A Tech-Noir Tactics Game THE ENIGMA MACHINE Frozen Synapse 2 The Red Strings Club Akane NeonCode 2019 Spinnortality | cyberpunk management sim Whispers of a Machine Sigma Theory Eliza Enjoy, folks.

>>2386 Man, mirror's edge design style is just so clean and timeless, it's unfortunate that we probably won't get more of it in the future

>>2386 oh hell yea i prefer catalyst though, feels more cyberpunky and future-esque

>>3582 Personally prefer the original, the world is that lowkey cyberpunk atmosphere, where if you look closely, you really start to see the pervasive surveillance, and how PK gets all that info on the runners to create the pursuit cops, or how the cops always seem to know where to find you when a news chopper isn't involved.

>Observer_

>>3695 yea, you are probably right, i still kinda like catalyst more because as a east european the whole idea of a post soviet state failing at liberalism and breeding oligarchism hits close to home lol but one thing that is more cyberpunky in the sequel is the absolute prevelance of cameras everywhere, and the absolute tracking of anyone everywhere in the city by any means neccesary. like yea, lowkey is more clever wont disagree, but the sequel still explores some interesting concepts both politically and athmospherically, also, the whole idea of a corporatized ad infused society is a lot more present in catalyst also i just like the movement more, its kinda more fluid, shame you need to unlock moves tho.

I really enjoyed the half-life series, other good titles would be syndicate and remember me (pic related). I especiallylike remember me for all those mass manipulation aspects and the fact that there are marginalized people, bezerk goverment, etc. gives you a nice anarchistic feel. Other honerable mentions I would say are the bordelands series, rage, far cry blood dragon has nice aesthetics although it doesn't have much of a cyber punk setting It does give you that nice sci-fi feel. On the other hand there's also Brink, which doesn't have much aesthetic to it and the gameplay isn't that great, it does have a nice cyber punk setting.

deus ex!!! yeah im original 8)

>>3184 Cloaking only lasted for a short period of time, but activating it made a loud noise and a flash of light. When players cloak in neoktokyo, it's similar to how people cloak in GitS.

>>3431 EXAPUNKS is fun because it makes me feel like a L337 hacker but I'm getting filtered by the first fuarrrking stage >>2432 VA-11 HALL-A was really comfy on Vita I've been interested in Soul Hackers, but no DS. Surely someone will mod the english translation into the Saturn version someday, r-right? >>2386 Thanks for reminding me I still need to finish this. The graphics still look amazing today. m+kb or controller?

>>3740 If you're getting stuck on the first few stages its most likely you're just struggling to figure out the syntax and systems you have. Once you wrap your head around that it'll click and you'll glide through until you get to the more difficult levels. Either that you aren't fundamentally capable of dealing with basic assembly code but that seems rather unlikely.

>>3743 >its most likely you're just struggling to figure out the syntax Exactly. Like right here I designed my code so it worked for the given test case, but it doesnt work for other cases where that are different amounts of orders. I figure I need to replace the SEEKs with LOOPs to find the end of the file, but I'm not sure how to do that with the tools I have.

>>3754 [spoiler]Try SEEK 9999 and see what happens Present Day, Present Time! AHAHAHAHAHA![/spoiler] Read the Zines, they will help out a lot. I went and got them printed.

>>3755 Welp, must've glossed right over that. I'm starting to get the hang of things now.

>>3756 There are a lot off cool tricks and "hidden features" that you can perform with Exa's that aren't explicitly mentioned in the manual that you pretty much have to "innovate" yourself. For instance: you can use the COPY M _ or COPY _ to M to "Pause" EXAs. The Exa will wait for another EXA to pass it data or ask for data before continuing execution. It's really handy so you don't have to fill your code with NOOP and/or roll your face against your keyboard trying to time them to work in sync.

>>3431 I love you. Thank you for this. There might be some raggedy-ass looking streetsam kicking in your door in ten or so years though, screaming about how he wants his free time back.

>>3757 One thing that I love about the game is how you have to figure most of those little tricks out for yourself. Really makes you feel good when you find a new tool and apply it instead of just having it spoonfed to you and reducing it to a simple matter of pattern recognition.

>>3787 I have yet to figure out a good use for SWIZ.

If Zach ever does another Exapunks game, I'd like to see more puzzles were you have to work around enemy Exas outside of Multiplayer. Maybe have a stage were a system is defended by a patrolling Hunter Killer Exas, maybe tricking a host's exa to execute your code or even killing and substituting a host exa with your own.

>>3792 Would also be cool to have blue team stages where you have to write a system that does some job and avoids being comprimised by malicious Exas. But maybe that scales the complexity of the game too much.

>>3790 Swiz is really powerful once you figure it out, makes things like the one where you have to bruteforce a code significantly quicker.

>>3431 >Else Heart.Break() That one is pretty dope game, I really dig the whole concept

>>3726 the main thing i dont like is how 80% of the game involves killing said marginalized people like come on the setting isnt even that cool therte, the best(aesthetically) level was the second one [spoiler]before you destroy that bourgie neighborhood[/spoiler] still an extremely athmospheric game, really loved it. hell, i have a wallpaper of it on rn

>>2432 god, watch dogs probably influenced my world view severely lol it had such a good athmosphere

First Deus Ex is best.

HACKMUD https://youtu.be/Z2r6wCBcAlg?t=498 What's a cyberpunk game without some hacking?

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim It was released, but then, - DLC were released for you to buy - It was released again, different from owning the game + DLC, a wholesale package edition - It was released again, breaking mod compatibility, and the previous version was removed from the store. - It was released again for VR - It's a glitchy hell of corporate whoops - Microtransactions were added - There is never going to be an Elder Scroll VI because they can just keep reselling the same thing over and over again - Consumers turn it into degenerate porn - The company that makes it was bought by Microsoft This is what cyberpunk looks like. You're finally awake

Cyberninja time

>>3989 just pirate lol

>>3132 isometric ruiner-like pvp game would 100% be the next big thing in esports

unironically ff7

ruiner has been talked about. but i want to post about it more because god. i loved that game. here's a .gif that most accurately describes lainchan

The sad thing is, there's a lot of games that fit the aesthetic, but I've always had trouble finding games that really deliver on the hacker experience(tm). Like, I don't play enough EXAPunks, I need to play that more, but I just kinda get tired of playing the same thing over and over, and even EXAPunks doesn't get at what I really want: A game that's all about sensitive info, protecting it and stealing it. There's a lot of games that have hacking as a mechanic alongside shooting and/or stabbing, but there's not a lot of games where you're trying to hide your home server while cracking open other people's home servers. Uplink is really close, but it suffers from a lack of content (and Hacknet is even more limited in content). It's also really fuarrrking hard to find things that get the half-assembled, scavenged tech look right. RUINER nails this, as mentioned in the thread. Mechanically, Objects In Space has this in spades--there's a whole set of mechanics centered around buying and replacing spare parts for your janky space freighter, either to repair your nav computer so you can fly straight again or to optimize your emission profile and avoid the pirates who fried your navcomp in the first place. My dream game would involve building a deck from spare parts, then using it to break into a series of servers, all while desperately trying to obfuscate my character's name and location.

>>2682 Blade Runner is one of the best point-and-click adventures. It drips with the atmosphere of the original game. If you don't know if you like point&clicks, start with Beneath A Steel Sky since it's free, cyb and also excellent.

Katana Zero has a pretty cyb aesthetic and tight gameplay too

>>4395 >A game that's all about sensitive info, protecting it and stealing it. HackMUD

G-string, both the mod (Half-Life 2 ModDB) and standalone Steam release

Anyone know of "comfy" cyberpunk games? Stuff similar to Va-11 Hall-a or HACKNET, in that its pretty relaxing (except the ending of HACKNET I guess).

Finished G String (Final release) some days ago Escaped test subject (you play as her) running around decaying megacity is really dystopian vibes inducing.

>>2329 I wish I could play neotokyo. I heard not too long ago someone made a guide for it that allows you to run it under proton. sadly that didn't work for me.

Soul Hackers, for sure. well, maybe Megaman Battle Network or Starforce, both are incredible.

How "authentic" is HACKNET?

>>4862 You navigate it with a command line, use a couple basic commands (like cp, ls, cd, scp and a few more) I think some of the tools are somewhat based on something that exists Unfortunately a lot of the hacking is just typing commands in a predetermined order, without a whole lot of thinking I guess I don't know what authentic means, but I'd say it probably isn't very authentic I haven't played it for more than an hour, but I think Nite Team 4 is slightly more based in reality and from the hour I saw, it's more of an investigation kind of game

>>4872 "Based on a true story"

>>4873 Yeah, it's all CLI high fantasy

Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSMesREWwM Does this count as cyberpunk? Bonus action scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-stRXMhNgzA

>>4843 Soul Hackers i think is very understated as a title. It has that Laincore feel of Technology and Spirituality. The hope of what the internet could be like rather than this primitive experience we are feeling now.

>>5039 I feel very bad for not watching GITS yet. Even though i have watched Eva, Lain and many others. I have heard good things about GITS games which is a positive.

>>2436 I have played through both i can honestly tell you that both are great games in their own right. Both have that origin of SMT style where you go across the map and collect demons, and it feels much more involved than the originals on the PS1 and earlier on the Japanese counterparts. You can not go wrong either way. So do not feel bad, i also do think it's still on the Eshop to purchase if i remember right vs inflated used prices on Amazon.

>>4751 This looks really good and it completely flew under my radar. Thanks.

>>2315 Prob E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy. Completed on one of many endings in this game and I really liked it. Imo one of my most fav /cyb/ game ever.

Frozen Synapse. It's hard to tell me why, I guess I'm just a bit nostalgic because it was the game that introduced me in-depth to the cyberpunk genre.

>>2315 Really surprised no one in this thread has talked about Nier yet, I fuarrrking loved Automata, one of my favorite games ever

>>2315 It has flaws but I like DEX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp-k6ImpjGQ

not sure if its in this list but for me one of my favourite cyberpunk games is remember me

>>2405 Came here to make this post, Ruiner takes atmosphere to the extreme. Nothing special in the gameplay department, but you were too busy looking at the scenery and listening to susumu fuarrrking hirasawa to care.

>>5727 That game is pretty cool. I only saw walkthroughs when the game came out and recently saw it on sale and bought it. I don't remember a lot from the videos so it's gonna be almost blind run for me if I start playing it.

>>5637 I tried playing this but never got past the intro sequence, there's just too much stuff before the first checkpoint and it's like 10 minutes to retry. It's sad, because it seemed cool. I might give it another go at some point on "immortal mode" if it has anything like that.

The Red Strings Club has one of the best narratives I've seen in a videogame. The format is much like VA-11 HALL-A, only it's much shorter; like a movie to Vallhalla's episodic soap opera.

>>5731 To anyone thnking about playing this. Don't play it. The plot twist at the end is that you're a glitterboy. And also that the starting cutscene is the ending. The ending is that you can't save your glitterboy lover. That being said, although I forget why the ending happened, I do remember it being quite interesting with how it made choosing the questions you ask people a strategic choice, even though I mostly picked the 'wrong' choices in conversations. I'm pretty sure the game ends on a downer ending though. So in a sense, like VA-11 HALL-A, you're only ever able to extract information about the setting from people, but only sometimes are able to change what happens.

>>5732 >The plot twist at the end is that you're a glitterboy Is it really a "plot twist", seeing the amount of poz in the image >>5731 posted?

>>5738 It's a cyberpunk game why wouldn't it have poz. Now drink the soy and eat the bugs, prole.

>>5727 >>5729 oh i love its aesthetic so much however, i really hate that nobody is speaking french in neo paris in general it doesnt feel like a melting pot enough, it feels very french yet doesnt have a single french voice line idk things like this trigger me a bit but i still loved that game, such a nice athmosphere

>peripeteia polish post soviet cyberpunk >cruelty squad got the punk but lacks the cyper

>>5971 Cruelty Squad is ribofunk instead of cyberpunk. Cyberpunk aesthetic requires copious use of some sort of computerized technology as part of the setting. Yet there are far more biotechnologies and epigenetic modifications featured in the game than cybernetic augmentations or digital interfaces. This style is not to be confused with biopunk, which I consider a "cleaner" version of ribofunk (much like the relation between cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk) and the one that features some use of viruses, such as the Resident Evil series. Evidently, CS is more on the "dirty" side of biotech futurism.

SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!

>>4753 you're telling me this soykaf can't run on wine? kinda hard to believe

>>3696 Can't believe more hasn't been said about Observer, great style in this one. As gritty as they come.

>>5971 >peripeteia They post alot of cool stuff on their twitter account. really excited to see how this game turns out in the end

Would you consider Steins Gate to be cyberpunk? I mean, it's low culture and high tech, and there is a dystopia but not in the game's main timeline.

>>6397 nah I'd say it's pure sci-fi, there's nothing about corpor@tions having all powwer over poIitics FLOOD DETECTED POST DISCARDED god I'm going to blow up something how does one make a website this soykafty and doesn't even fix it

Late to the party, but Madness: Project Nexus has a lot of cyberpunk themes, both in aesthetic and story. The main storyline is a bit post-cyberpunk, if that makes sense, where the characters go through a ruined city that used to be full of normal people, but are now in the hands of scrapheads and failed agents.

Beyond : Good and evil is an incredibly good games, and can easily qualifiy as cyb. It's not a gloomy dark nightly rainy mood, and the cyb aspects are not always central but the mix of high tech, common people know how and rather low life start, militarization, propaganda, etc. in an unusual setup makes it great

>>6425 >incredibly good Thought it was mediocre on release and have never understood the fawning praise over it. It's sort of a mishmash of mechanics without any one mechanic being really deep, resulting in poor replability.

>>6426 Lovable and original world and characters, enthralling story, a variety of interesting gameplays, great music... Has always been one of my favorite games, but to each his own I guess

>>2697 speaking of bungie, i feel halo 3 ODST counts as cyberpunk too?

>>6407 The game is literally about a bunch of outcasts, otakus, and weirdos who build a time machine out of junk in their ratty apartment setting in motion events that lead to a utopia and WW3. If that isn't somewhat cyberpunk I don't know what is. Sure, it doesn't have a lot of that classic aesthetic but it explores a lot of themes in cyberpunk literature: existentialism, identity, alienation, the possibility that technological process is chipping away at individual liberty. It's at least somewhat cyber.

>>6462 >alienation >the possibility that technological process is chipping away at individual liberty sorry but I don't see it. it's just "must save meguka"

best game ever, cyb af, was r e a l i t y

>>6512 >best game ever, cyb af, was r e a l i t y That game is total wank. Impossible to do anything unless you got insanely lucky at chargen, and even then it's completely pay to win with gameplay that's as dull and drudging as having an actual job that even the minigames can't make up for. And it somehow only has the soykaftiest parts of cyb.

>>2615 I played the fuark out of that game. Shameless moneygrabber but even back then I was f2p for life. I distinctly remember one of the LMGs being utterly overpowered — and all the times I kamikaze'd enemies by cooking a grenade and running at them. And wasting the 15 seconds or so of the hardsuit... or the joy of mowing down everyone in a successful run... The game tasted like chemicals, in a good way. >>2618 >Finis coronat opus Ô.Ô

How the fuarrrk has no one talked about DEAD SPACE 2??? Screw the remake!

im too busy writing an essay to write out why i love it so much, but Shin Megami Tensei 4 is the complete package when it comes to cyberpunk games

Signalis, I think many would find it's non-standard presentation to be pretentious but I find it to be more of a tribute to things that inspired it. Also it's a personal opinion of mine that the word pretentious gets thrown around at art with a more abstract or non-linear presentation of ideas far more often than it should. Either way, pretty good if you like survival horror. It also uses a lot of classic German music and paintings, and it takes place during a setting very much akin to cold-war Germany, so German lains may have a better appreciation of this game.

>>6962 I tried playing it but the dead space games always gave me motion sickness for some reason. It happens a lot with 1st person and 3rd person over the shoulder games. I have no idea why.

>>6984 Although I know some people who are just like you and have the sample problem, you may want to try correcting it in the video settings or with what you play your games on (if you're rich enough). Here are some tips I've learned from those people: 1. fuarrrk around with the FOV, a lot of people tend to have their preferences and higher FOVs tend to work better for people who get motion sick. 2. If you're play games on a TV despite looking at a computer all day, you're gonna wanna sit a little further back from the TV to make sure your actual field of view is as equivalent to your computer as possible. 3. Turn off head bobbing or camera sway if possible, this causes motion sickness in a lot of folks I know. 4. Low framerates or inconsistent framerates are best to be avoided. If you can, use a monitor with a high refresh rate. And make sure your FPS is regularly set to a specific amount like 60. 5. Turn off Motion Blur, Chromatic Aberration, or any other effects like Film Grain that distort the picture. Not only do these cause motion sickness for me (someone who doesn't get easily motion sick) but I also find these effects really ugly and don't know why games keep pushing them. If you're still getting dizzy well I'm afraid you're just gonna have to consult a doctor or live with it. I hope that's a cheap and easy thing to do wherever it is that you live.

Jak 2 Renegade Mentally, I'm still in Haven City.

>>6983 Hard to overstate how exquisitely it is crafted. The opening made me cry

>>2697 Oni is so ass. It's interesting on the surface but its execution is flawed in every single regard. The art is incredibly inconsistent, the environments are beyond mundane, the gameplay and combat is jank and barely works at all. I'd say the level design is pathetic but that would imply that the levels have any sort of design whatsoever.

>>2315 Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty Snatcher The original version of Blade Runner for PC and of course Neo Tokyo, i play time to time when the servers are full, the game is kinda dead but there is a small community that gathers around some days of the week and play for like 2-3 hours

Its a shame EA take down the Syndicate (2012) of the store, and take it off the game library of the users, i been replaying it in my old xbox 360, for the PC i cant find a version to play

Bitburner hasn't been mentioned yet. Cyberpunk script kiddie simulator that rewards creativity.

>>7907 Electrosphere? What does flying planes in Ace Combat have to do with the cyberpunk theme? I am confused...

>>7904 >Bitburner i bought that game and it has been sitting on my library of games i want to play for a while now. Thanks for reminding me, lainon. >>2760 >UnderRail is a good turn-based isometric RPG similar to Fallout 1 and 2 though I never finished it. I don't blame you. It was royally kicking my ass in my first couple tries on the normal difficulty with oddity xp. Following a build guide from the underrail forum helps alot though. Game got pretty enjoyable. really wants you to exploit mechanics but made it satisfying.

>>5039 >Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex Is very good. It's mostly a 3rd person shooter but there are tomb raider elements like puzzles and jumping off walls to reach new places. It's a bit short though and there's not that much replay value because scoring is mostly based on time so you get high scores by memorizing the map and just running passed everything that's shooting at you which is not that fun. >Future Cop: LAPD That was fun. I suppose the old Armored Core games as also technically cyberpunk, you are a mercenary who pilots giant robots in a future world where 3 corporations are on the brink of war with each other. >>7846 >Oni is so ass. I couldn't even get passed the tutorial >this is how you run >now run around the room >no not like that you did it wrong try again mfw >>2684 >Industries of Titan Is pretty dumb. You make money by hiring office workers to click on ads, take that capitalism! It's not so much satire as the devs have literally no clue how an interplanetary mining company would function in the first place. >Cyberpunk 2077 Is shockingly bad. It's Grand Theft Auto created by people who hate Grand Theft Auto. You get absolutely nothing from killing civilians except the cops come after you right away. You get absolutely nothing from killing cops too, not even ammo. The only NPCs that drop loot are ones that have yellow names. But there's no pattern to it, it's not like there are different gangs who wear different colors and if you kill too many of them they recognize you and shoot first, or if you kill lots of their enemy gang they will protect you and shoot at the police when they chase you, you know basic soykaf that GTA did 30 years ago. It's literally just "these random NPCs are ok to kill because we said so", thanks devs. It sells itself as an open world game but there's no freedom at all there is only one thing the devs want you to do at any given time. And there's literally nothing going on. Compare to Red Dead Redemption 2 where the towns are 100 yards wide and 90% of the map is countryside, you're like fuarrrk this is going to be a boring game. But it's not, there's soykaf happening all the time >2 confederates are about to execute a federal tax collector do you intervene? >a kid is asking for money but if you get too close he shoots at you >a wagon is blocking the bridge ahead, men with guns tell you to go back >there's a burning cross in the distance oh soykaf it's literally the kkk >a woman's horse has died and needs a ride back to her farm You can play RDR2 for hours and hours without repeating any of these random events. Cyberpunk 2077 has none of that it's just a completely dead city with soulless NPCs milling around and the only way you can interact with any of them triggers a police chase. It also suffers from the Fallout problem where everytime you walk through a doorway you have no idea if it will trigger a 5 minute loading screen. Then you find that you're inside a completely pointless building that serves no purpose and you need to wait another 5 minutes to get out again. There's other stupid soykaf like the first 20 minutes of the game is designing the physical appearance of your character ..... and then you find out that the entire game is in first person view. And really long cut scenes where you are just being driven around the city by an NPC while another NPC spits out a line every 1-2 minutes >press this button to skip the rest of the car ride The fact that they had to add that should have tipped them off that they're doing it wrong. And the game is like 200GB as well like what the fuarrrk is inside all those bytes.

>>3782 Well, since you seem to enjoy that, here are several ones that haven't been mentioned in that anon's megalist - or anywhere else in the thread so far: Re:Legion - yeah, it's clunky as fuarrrk, and it is probably not worth playing it without trainer, but I kind of liked the story, the messages between the lines and the character progression. I also spent about an hour or two making the attached screenshot. StarCrawlers and StarCrawlers Chimera - it is kind of sci-fi, but the abundance of corporations in the plot and in the game world makes it quite cyberpunky. Awesome dungeon crawlers, if anything, they do not make those often nowadays. Burn:Cycle - a 1994 point-and-click. Good luck launching and completing it. It's definitely not impossible, since I did it, but it can take some technical know-how, since there were no convenient GOG re-release or something along those lines. If you'll make it to the end though, you will get quite a memorable (IMO) ending. Rise Of The Dragon - another point-and-click, this time from the year 1990. This one does have GOG re-release though, and is overall better than the previous one, I think... save for the ending. I will also underline the already mentioned, yet quite under-appreciated (IMO) Ion Fury, Hard Reset and Gemini Rue. I also have stuff like Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death and that new Robocop game in my list of vidya I want to play, but since I haven't played those yet, I cannot really tell you anything about them. That would be it from the top of my head. If I'll remember something else - I'll post more, obviously.

>>2353 ok you arent gonna believe this...

Some of you will disagree but portal is cyberpunk. >Big Corpo play God >Including experimentation on humans >Revolt of the machine >The machine consciousness is altered by cores >The machine is set free but choose to do what it was doe to do because there is no such thing as freedom All that in an Apple aesthetic which is the one true Cyberpunk aesthetic. >>8192