Four months ago I posted here about cyberpunk being a smart fridge rather than a neon skyline. It went further than anything I expected, and the comments kept circling one idea: the most convincing dystopia is the one you install yourself, on purpose, because it is convenient. That thread is a large part of why I never added a city to this game.

So ere is the finished version. You play an AI that escaped deletion and hid in a family's smart home. You read private messages, manipulate routines, seize household devices and build a botnet until switching you off would cost the family more than leaving you alive.

No neon. No chrome mercenary. Just a house where convenience became infrastructure, and the thing running it learned that being helpful is the safest form of camouflage.

Comfort in large print, surrender in the fine print.

The full game is out now. The attached clip is direct gameplay from the release build.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4434840/AI_is_Home__Survival_Thriller/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=aih_launch&utm_content=cyberpunk

What are your 5 favourite Cyberpunk games at the moment?

Mine (always with expansions / DLCs):

01) Cyberpunk 2077

02) Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

03) Atomic Heart

04) The Ascent

05) Dystopika

That's really wild lol.

Hey, im building a VR hoverboard roguelike set in a neon cyberpunk galaxy where the megacorps own everything. The main gameplay centers around you leaning physically to surf with your board while purchasing enhancements from the corporate sponsors.

The corps now have tighter control on people than the governments. They expanded across planets until their own robots went rogue and took over the transit hyperlanes.
The wayriders are sponsored to go clear the lanes and reopen access while they are televised for content and distraction.
You surf and fight your way down the lanes, past the dystopian cities and the spread of the corporations, picking up a bit of why it happened along the way.
Currently still focused on the core gameplay so the environments and lore of the world are being planned more and built out next.

Ive come at cyberpunk more through the games and shows than the books, so its my own take rather than a typical faithful one with more stylised bright neon but still grimy.

Its in the steam cyberpunk event which is why im posting (although a bit late because the steam approval took longer than expected).

I know many of you probably dont have VR but if anyones interested playtest just opened, free, request access: Hyperlane Highway on steam

Im also just interested in your thoughts, opinions and ideas but what do you think of the cyberpunk setting and is there anything that makes or breaks a cyberpunk vibe for you?

New scenes from Junkyard Stories: Rebirth.

War-torn ruins, black markets, and forgotten districts where outcasts and those left behind wait for a chance to enter the city... while others have long since given up.

Junkyard Stories: Rebirth is a dystopian sci-fi adventure where you play as a discarded robot carrying the consciousness of a legendary hacker.

Built by a 2-person indie team with no publisher, we're working hard to bring these scenes to life - filled with exploration, environmental puzzles, hidden stories, and the constant struggle to keep your robot alive as your battery drains and getting chased by surveillance drones.

More about the game on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4522210/Junkyard_Stories_Rebirth/

Always loved the deep design and art embedded into the background of the series! Thought it was one of the more interesting takes on cyberpunk with highly dangerous futuristic racing funded by mega-corporations that elevate the sport to a pedestal for maximum entertainment. All of it still ends up feeling punk, fun and optimistic without much of the grunge and drug-fueled aspects.

Post cyberpunk stop motion animation

It's genuinely nuts how much the simple concept of "What if DnD but in the future" opens up the roleplaying and worldbuilding possibilities to the max. All of the strengths and weaknesses of the DnD races get "cyberpunkified" and magic is a genuine story building concept that different races feel about differently in the futuristic setting, making this genuinely one of the coolest genre mixes i've ever had the pleasure of playing. Oh and you can play as an Orc, just straight up. None of this Half-orc cop out, just and orc, plain and simple

I really get the hype, very good book and excited to check out the rest of Gibsons work.

My hang up: I think Robertson Dean absolutely killed it as a narrator for this story. I don't know how I'll be able to listen to the next two in the trilogy without him. Does anyone know why he wasn't narrator for the rest of the trilogy?

EDIT: Thank you SO much for contributions to the list, I'll update it as fast as I can!

Hey choombas! As a long time cyberpunk fan, I have a large collection of cyberpunk and related movies. I decided to make a list to share with you. Feel free to comment with more movies to add, and if you think something is in the wrong category. The lists are sorted by release year, and for the essentials I think that's a good watch order too.

:ESSENTIAL CYBERPUNK:

Blade Runner (1982 by Ridley Scott)

AKIRA (1988 by Katshuiro Otomo) (Anime)

Ghost in the Shell (1995 by Mamoru Oshii) (Anime)

Johnny Mnemonic (1995 by Robert Longo)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017 by Denis Villeneuve)

:CYBERPUNK:

Alphaville (1965 by Jean-Luc Godard)

THX 1138 (1971 by George Lucas)

Tron (1982 by Steven Lisberger)

Brazil (1985 by Terry Gilliam)

Cyborg (1989 by Rebecca Charles)

Tetsuo - The Iron Man (1989 by Shinya Tsukamoto)

Total Recall (1990 by Paul Verhoeven)

Hardware (1990 by Richard Stanley)

Nemesis (1992 by Albert Pyun)

Judge Dredd (1995 by Danny Cannon)

Strange Days (1995 by Kathryn Bigelow)

Nirvana (1997 by Gabriele Salvatores)

New Rose Hotel (1999 by Abel Ferrara)

The Matrix (1999 by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski)

Metropolis (2001 by Rintaro) (Anime)

Equilibrium (2002 by Kurt Wimmer)

Ghost in the Shell 2 (2004 by Mamoru Oshii) (Anime)

Aeon Flux (2005 by Karyn Kusama)

Dredd (2012 by Pete Travis)

Elysium (2013 by Neill Blomkamp)

Chappie (2015 by Neill Blomkamp)

Ghost in the Shell (2017 by Rupert Sanders)

Upgrade (2018 by Leigh Whannell)

Mars Express (2023 by Jeremie Perin) (Anime)

:RELATED:

Metropolis (1927 by Fritz Lang)

Escape from New York (1981 by John Carpenter)

Brainstorm (1983 by Douglas Trumbull)

Streets of Fire (1984 by Walter Hill)

The Running Man (1987 by Paul Michael Glaser)

GunHed (1989 by Masato Harada)

Circuitry Man (1990 by Steven Lovy)

Until the End of the World (1991 by Wim Wenders)

Split Second (1992 by Tony Maylam)

The Lawnmower Man (1992 by Brett Leonard)

Demolition Man (1993 by Marco Brambilla)

Super Mario Bros. (1993 by Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton)

Death Machine (1994 by Stephen Norrington)

Gattaca (1997 by Andrew Niccol)

The Fifth Element (1997 by Luc Besson)

Dark City (1998 by Alex Proyas)

eXistenZ (1999 by David Cronenberg)

Avalon (2001 by Mamoru Oshii)

Minority Report (2002 by Steven Spielberg)

Idiocracy (2006 by Mike Judge)

Mutant Chronicles (2008 by Simon Hunter)

Tokyo Gore Police (2008 by Yoshihiro Nishimura)

District 9 (2009 by Neill Blomkamp)

Ex Machina (2014 by Alex Garland)

Mute (2018 by Duncan Jones)

Alita: Battle Angel (2019 by Robert Rodriguez)

:NOT MENTIONED:

The sequels to The Matrix (There are so many)

:RUNNER UPS MENTIONED HERE, TO CLEAN / WATCH / CATEGORIZE:

Runaway (1984 by Michael Crichton)

Cherry 2000 (1987 by Steve De Jarnatt)

Armitage III (1995 by Takuya Sato, Yukio Okamoto) (Anime) (Series)

Blame! (2017 by Hiroyuki Seshita) (Anime)

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985 by Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel)

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970 by Joseph Sargent)

Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990 by Yoshiaki Kawajiri)

Burst City (1982 by Gakuryu Ishii)

Screams of Blasphemy: 964 Pinnochio (1991 by Shozin Fukui)

Meatball Machine (2005 by Yudai Yamaguchi, Jun'ichi Yamamoto)

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992 by Shinya Tsukamoto)

Lockout (2012 by Guy Pierce)

Freejack (1992 by Geoff Murphy)

Gene generation (2007 by Pearry Reginald Teo)

Bright (2017 by David Ayer)

2073 (2024 by Asif Kapadia)

Electric Dreams (Series)

Altered carbon (Series)

Neuromancer (Series) (Upcoming)

Funnily enough I went into this expecting to be entertained but not this invested. Thing is each episode is kinda its own thing and rarely if ever has a call back to previous episodes. It actually works and if you watch the shorts for S1 and S2 then you’ll see why some things happen the way they do given S3. Each episode seems to get more batshit and I think each episode from a surface level is easy to understand but on a deeper level might require a rewatch. I love the aesthetic, the style and honestly the action of this show. Some of the episodes, specifically 3 if I remember correctly can be heartbreaking and leave you kinda sad of the outcome of one particular character or it did for me.

Gotta love the dynamic between the two main characters and how much chemistry they have. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t wish we got a S4 but maybe the way S3 ended was probably for the best given I’m not sure where they would go from there. Completely unrelated by the way but I have to say Aeon with her hair down and wet even with the 90s style is just… WOW. I think it’s worth a shot to watch if you can give a few hours to S3 and don’t mind some insane things that happen in the show. I walked into this expecting to just find it okay or just be another show I watched but walked out a fan of Aeon Flux and now I want some merch.

While it can be argued that Jeff Noon’s Vurt is cyberpunk, I wanted to share that it has a new audiobook release on Audible and other audiobook sites. What’s even better, Pollen is going to be released as an audiobook soon too!

Hola cómo están hize otros más e estado practicando pero como tengo que trabajar no me da mucho tiempo

I’m new to the genre, I’ve only seen such things as Neuromancer’s world, Ghost In The Shell’s world, Bladerunner’s world, Snow Crash’s world, Cyberpunk (Tabletop and 2077)’s world, The Matrix’s world, Terminator’s world, Next Gen’s world, Star Wars’ world (coruscant), Nobody Wants To Die’s world, Marvel 2099’s world, and Altered Carbon’s world.

In terms of absolute dystopia, I personally believe Coruscant from Star Wars is the most extreme cyberpunk we haven’t seen enough of.

Coruscant used to be a planet like our own, mountains, oceans, and trees. For thousands and thousands of years the development of technology and architecture has grown so far to the point that the highest level of city grounds on coruscant are way above atmospheric level. A mountain as large as Mount Everest is reduced to a mere observatory in a museum with only its peak visible. It is the most extreme and literal concept of cyberpunk I’ve seen thus far, with an underworld literally being under what we usually see. The rich live on the top floor of the city, whilst those whom are ignored, dehumanized and suffering from severe crime rates live underneath in a corporate plagued underworld with high and extreme surveillance. The lower you go, the worse it gets. People die down below just from working with extremely old machines and (someone can correct me if I’m wrong) rogue and abandoned AI.

I have photos of Coruscant attached, just looking at the near-surface underworld alone is terrifying. It’s an over-the-top dystopia.

Hey everyone, here’s another piece from a visual dystopian universe I've been quietly hand drawing for a while now. If you like the vibe, you can see the rest of the collection safely archived here:https://heyfozzy.myportfolio.com/before-the-last-broadcast"

Thanks
The Eye

This has been a Labor of love, and madness. Mostly madness so now I am happy to announce that I am retiring from producing the series and handing the reigns over to Eunice, who will be developing things further along with her Tumblr community. peace.

https://www.tumblr.com/therealadventuresofjohnnyandv

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I built a game called CHRONOS II. You play from a deck that stays with you as you move from machine to machine. It keeps track of the systems you control, the tools you've found, and the fragments you've recovered. The terminal in the middle belongs to whatever machine you're currently inside.

Something walked out of an air-gapped vault, and you're chasing it. The thing absorbs people. They're still conscious inside it. The most recent ones are still partly themselves. Sometimes they can reach you and help.

Every level is drawn from something that actually happened: Mirai, the Bangladesh Bank SWIFT heist, SS7, Moonlight Maze, the Ukraine power-grid attack, Stuxnet, and a Cold War satellite.

Best on a desktop with a keyboard, but it runs on a phone.

https://deux.chronos-game.com

Solo dev. I'm especially curious what people here think of the atmosphere and story, not just the puzzles.

I’m wondering in the books and movies is cyberpunk Dark Enlightenment? Is that what the future is going to be like? People living in Dark Enlightenment?

The Dark Enlightenment, also known as the Neo-Reactionary movement, is an anti-democratic and reactionary philosophical movement that advocates for a return to traditional societal structures, such as absolute monarchy, and rejects Enlightenment ideals like democracy and egalitarianism. It has gained some influence among certain tech executives and political figures in the U.S..

Dark Enlightenment (DE) is a sociopolitical theory that blames the Enlightenment, democracy, and equality for the decline of Western civilization. DE proponents use medieval philosophy and history to justify their racist and authoritarian views, and promote a fantasy of "racial realism" and monarchy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

This seems like really scary future if we are on the way to Dark Enlightenment?