What is everyone’s recommendations for great Cyberpunk games?

Following from a comment I made elsewhere about my conflicted feelings on 2077;

I had a great time with it myself, despite many obvious flaws. It seems to scratch an itch that I’ve yet to find an alternative way to scratch!

Maybe it’s as simple as cyberpunk fallout? But the worlds texture (again despite it’s imperfections) feels more than just cyberpunk. The fallout comparison has other similarities too (apart from the buggy engine lol), I love the active and relatively expensive mod scene too.

I was definitely disappointed that the story felt a bit limited, but I’m looking forward to a new play through when the DLC is out, even if it’s another trainwreck.

I loved the anime too which makes me excited for my next play through, similar to how reading the Witcher books opened up a whole new lover for the Witcher 3, although there’s much less of a connection between the Cyberpunk game and the anime obviously.

Long story short, I can understand others frustration with the game, and I hope (perhaps naïvely) that CDProjectRED get their shit together with how they treat there devs. But despite that I loved it, and deeply hope they don’t abandon the franchise due to how badly the first release went. I must guiltily confess that it’s a real struggle not to preorder the DLC out of the vague sense that it’d count as a vote to stick with it. I won’t, mostly because corpos don’t work that way, and I don’t want to endorse the bad behaviour towards their Devs especially, but still.

So yeah anyone got anything else to scratch that Cyberpunk itch, especially cyberpunk worlds with a similar texture and/or with a fallout/Skyrim style game loop? But frankly all cyberpunk is of interest.

Off the top of my head I can recommend;

  • Satellite Reign - Great action RPG (or can can be played in a more strategic turn-based-via-pauses mode). Really like the freedom to go anywhere and try anything and all discovering all the ways to combine those classic cyberpunk skills. Coop mode is great too.
  • Shadowrun Returns - All I can remember based on my 2014 review is I liked it, but evidently it didn’t stick with me mentally 🤷 I vaguely remember the pacing and gameplay felt a bit off, but the story felt very rich, if a tad inaccessible.
  • Deus Ex - I’d say has a tangible different feel of cyberpunk to what I’m aiming for here, but obviously can’t be ignored. The first one is obviously a classic, but some fun was had with the more recent iterations, but if I’m honest I prefer Cyberpunk 2077 to all but the first (forgive me my sins)

Actually while I’m bothering you people, I keep meaning to go back to the Shadowrun series but I find the situation with sequels, addons and DLC in the series hella-confusing! Recommendations welcome!

  • pastelsquirrel@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    honestly? Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. fantastic soundtrack, aesthetic, and a scary look into a potential future where society is dominated by the corporations. give it a look if you haven’t; it’s super underrated imo

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    1 year ago

    Even though it is firmly a walking sim and has various issues, Observer by Bloober Team absolutely nails the dingy cyberpunk aesthetic. I enjoyed it for its atmosphere, despite its flaws.

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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure if Stray counts as Cyberpunk, but it has most of the trappings and is a great game. A bit short. It’s kind of like the futuristic part of Cyberpunk taken beyond the extinction of the humans.

    You play a cat that has accidentally fallen into a walled city that’s full of human-like robots and uncover what happened to the humans as you try to get out.

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    1 year ago

    It’s not out for a few more months but I recently tried the demo for Fortune’s Run, which is now one of my favorite depictions of a cyberpunk world in a game. It’s an immersive sim, maybe with a bit more focus on direct combat than most. The gameplay is fun if a bit rough in some spots, hopefully it gets polished up for launch but it’s very promising. Everything about the presentation though is top notch.

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    1 year ago

    I have enjoyed Cloudpunk greatly. It is a low budget title, but the characters and anti-corp themes are great. Plus it has flying cars.

    You could obviously also pick up Bladerunner. I think all the versions are back in order now after some initial chaos around a re-release.

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    1 year ago

    You didn’t mention System Shock, so maybe System Shock.

    It was originally released in 1994 but a remake was just recently released and has had favorable feedback. Deus Ex, BioShock and Prey are spiritual successors.

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    1 year ago

    Beneath a steel sky

    Shadowrun

    Deus Ex

    System Shock

    Perfect Dark

    I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

    …sorry all I know are old games lol

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    1 year ago

    I run a community called Boomer Shooter over on lemmy.ninja. I’d pick games like Deadlink, Ghostware, and Prodeus. They check all the boxes for me.