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[Question] What are the best retro cyberpunk video games (20+ years old)? (lemmy.villa-straylight.social)
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What would you say are the best old-school cyberpunk video games?

Note that I don't actually care if it's the "best", I'm just looking for some fun older games to play. So give me something better than Raid 2020 and I'll call it a win.

I'm thinking things like:

And just to prove they don't have to be GOTY contenders....

So yeah, give me some recommendations from the NES/SNES/N64 era (I'm not convinced there's anything worth playing from the ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64 era). Maybe some Arcade (MAME) games too? I can't think of any cyberpunk arcade games.

I've never played Omikron: The Nomad Soul or BloodNet before. Not sure if they're worth my time.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, that brings back some memories!

Tron 2.0 is a Monolith classic. For some reason I thought they were no longer around, but the excellent Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is also one of theirs. Another great series (not related to cyberpunk) from them is No One Lives Forever. The first one had a bonus music CD with some great 60s inspired tracks.

I remember spending a lot of time with Uplink. It does make you feel like a movie hacker! The devs, Introversion, have a lot of interesting and original games. Defcon is inspired by the movie WarGames (with a hacker for the protagonist). Darwinia is about AI life, very original.