![]() ![]() Subtle or not, though, the game blessedly has more to say about its source material than “neon makes great backlighting.” The narrative adventure/bartending simulator isn’t always subtle in pursuing those themes-not that it can always afford to be, given its tight run time of three hours or so. And it’s all in service of asking, as well as answering, what makes a successful society. We see people subtly manipulated and outright killed for knowing too much. It flits from a corporate high rise literally towering over a fragile populace to the titular Red Strings Club bar, where social lubricants and social engineering pull the metaphorical strings of tech executives. The Red Strings Club is endlessly interested in who does and doesn’t wield society’s power-and what they should do about that. ![]() But very few address the power dynamics that turned those rainy megalopolises into sad, smog-choked dystopias. Everybody wants their speculative fiction to look like Blade Runner or evoke the ‘80s cool of Neuromancer. Those clichéd neon-lit, smog-choked, rainy cities are evocative enough to attract creators less interested in the moral messages of the subject matter like minnows to an anglerfish. Links: Steam | Official websiteCyberpunk might just be the most easily misused genre in history. ![]()
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