Let me straightforward: This game is probably the best sci-fi RPG I've played and it's inspired me to take a look at the wider Cyberpunk tabletop setting.

I picked up this game on sale. I decided to hold off for so long because of the negative press around the game earlier on in its life, but was pleasantly surprised to see that update 2.2. launched just a day after I had started playing (four years after its release!). I've already poured 20 hours into this game in under a week thanks to my Winter vacation and the worldbuilding is so damn immersive. I started out the game expecting a typical punk environment where all the characters are unlikable at best and poorly-written at worst. And while the world is DEFINITELY a punk world, the writing is SO good at humanizing the problems of a corporate and late-stage capitalist dystopia that I even ended up loving some of the prototypical villains of the setting, even the corpos and cops.

'The Hunt' is such a fun and disturbing buddy cop mission and actually presented me with choices that caused me to pause. The cyberpsychosis missions feel ripped right out of Ghost in the Shell's police investigations. The corpos like Meredith are cool. I like many of the punks. Claire, Jamie, and Panam are memorable characters that I love. The only thing on my wishlist that this game lacks is multiplayer, but I suppose there's mods for that.

Let me straightforward: This game is probably the best sci-fi RPG I've played and it's inspired me to take a look at the wider Cyberpunk tabletop setting. I picked up this game on sale. I decided to hold off for so long because of the negative press around the game earlier on in its life, but was pleasantly surprised to see that update 2.2. launched just a day after I had started playing (four years after its release!). I've already poured 20 hours into this game in under a week thanks to my Winter vacation and the worldbuilding is so damn immersive. I started out the game expecting a typical punk environment where all the characters are unlikable at best and poorly-written at worst. And while the world is DEFINITELY a punk world, the writing is SO good at humanizing the problems of a corporate and late-stage capitalist dystopia that I even ended up loving some of the prototypical villains of the setting, even the corpos and cops. 'The Hunt' is such a fun and disturbing buddy cop mission and actually presented me with choices that caused me to pause. The cyberpsychosis missions feel ripped right out of Ghost in the Shell's police investigations. The corpos like Meredith are cool. I like many of the punks. Claire, Jamie, and Panam are memorable characters that I love. The only thing on my wishlist that this game lacks is multiplayer, but I suppose there's mods for that.