Cyberpunk in the Ascendant

Cyberpunk is so intertwined in the rise of computer gaming that, as a computer game theme it will always be in favour. It will wax and wane like a sickly moon against the smog of a futuristic city, choking on its own waste products but it will always find someone willing to connect their deck to a terminal and hack in. Many games take cyberpunk as inspiration for their story such as the Deus Ex series. Below are some of the more esoteric ones.

Shadowrun Hong Kong is to be released on 20 August 2015, on Steam.
Being the third standalone game in the series, it follows on from the success of the Shadowrun Dragonfall - Director's Cut and Shadowrun Returns, all published by Harebrained Schemes. Shadowrun Returns sits on my hard drive awaiting me to jack in give my cyberware an airing. It currently sits at the top of my play stack.

Cypher is a Cyberpunk Text Adventure from the Cabrera Brothers and has a gorgeous website and is something that should be supported; an Indie text adventure with downloadable extra content you print yourself!

Westwood's 1997 Adventure; Blade Runner is the holy grail of Cyberpunk masterpieces; moody, atmospheric, difficult to get hold of a boxed copy... GOG has a wishlist for its re-make, PC Gamer has a returning to article about it but you can download the original from Abandonware.

Syndicate was a 1993 PC DOS-based game from Bullfrog Productions. A follow up, Syndicate Wars was published in 1996 with an expansion being released for Syndicate.

Bringing Syndicate right up to date, Satellite Reign is a spiritual successor (Satellite Reign FAQ) to the Syndicate series that was; Kickstarted, is currently on Early Release and will be released in less than two weeks.

So, all this means that there is enough to keep everybody going until Cyberpunk 2077 from CD Project S.A. arrives. Cyberpunk 2077 is a roleplaying game (RPG) and is based upon the pen and paper roleplaying game, created by Mike Pondsmith.

It currently has a gorgeous video teaser trailer but little else. Its ending states > coming: when it's ready. However, with a trailer looking this good, I'm prepared to wait...

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Categories: Blade Runner, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2077, Satellite Reign, Shadowrun Dragonfall, Shadowrun Hong Kong, Shadowrun Returns, Syndicate, Syndicate Wars, Text Adventure