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A cyberpunk-themed adventure/RPG hybrid set in a future Hong Kong that is recovering from a demon invasion. Tianren, a demon hunter, takes on cases relating to demon attacks and the shadowy corporation now running the city, SIVA.
Originally released for the Japan-exclusive MSX2 in 1990, this sequel is set four years after the Outer Heaven incident. New FOXHOUND commander, Roy Campbell, brings a shell-shocked Solid Snake back from early retirement to infiltrate the military nation Zanzibar Land.
Horizontal shoot 'em up for the PC Engine. The player, as cyber-diver Syd, must fly his hoverbike through the future city of Kabukicho to rescue his partner Deva from the corrupt police.
A reimaging of Snatcher in the form of a "super deformed" RPG, exclusively released on the MSX2 platform in 1990.
The second game in the Megami Tensei franchise and the last to appear on the Nintendo Famicom.
Strider is an arcade action side-scroller, and one of Capcom's first big hits for the Sega Genesis console.
An adventure game based in the very futuristic year of 2004, where the world has been enslaved by alien invaders.
Was produced and released in 1988 to coincide with the anime movie of the same name released earlier that year.
Get to the bottom of the mystery shrouding both a recent influx of body-snatching robotic terrorists and your own past as futuristic gumshoe Gillian Seed in this thrilling cinematic adventure. A Hideo Kojima adventure game originally released for the NEC PC-88 in 1988.
Loosely based on the 1984 William Gibson novel of the same name. This adventure game has you playing as a cyber hacker attempting to earn a living by hacking BBSs and eventually into cyberspace, where you battle AI.
Hoshi wo Miru Hito is a sci-fi themed Japanese RPG released for the NES in 1987, noteworthy for its difficulty and poor construction. It was only released in Japan.
The original game in the Megami Tensei franchise. Based on a novel by Aya Nishitani, it introduced many of the elements the series is known for such as demon bartering and fusing.
An early 1987 cyberpunk adventure game created by Jiro Ishii, who later went on to direct 428: Shibuya Scramble in 2008 and Time Travelers in 2012.
Alpha (アルファ) is a visual novel adventure game, developed and published by Squaresoft in 1986, for the PC-8801 & PC-9801 and FM-7 computers. It was known for its real-time animated cutscenes, epic cyberpunk space opera narrative, and scantily-clad heroine.
A first-person adventure game with RPG elements, released by Microcabin in 1986. The game featured environments rendered in 3D polygon graphics, for possibly the first time in a home video game, along with early survival horror elements. However, the game is better remembered for its cyberpunk narrative, which was adapted into a sci-fi novel shortly afterwards.
The Screamer is a 1985 cyberpunk-horror action RPG taking place in a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi setting. It was released by Magical Zoo, for the PC-8801 in 1985 and for the PC-9801 and X1 in 1986. An English fan translation was released in January 2015.
An early Japanese RPG released by Hot-B in 1984 that departed from the fantasy themes of most other early RPGs in favour of what is possibly gaming's first sci-fi cyberpunk plot. Set in a post-apocalyptic city, the game revolves around an amnesiac protagonist with psychic powers.
Kitaru is an episodic cyberpunk RPG
An upcoming cyberpunk RPG from the makers of Serpent in the Staglands
An upcoming cyberpunk RPG with turn-based combat
A followup to 1999's System Shock 2 being made by ex-Looking Glass and Bioshock Infinite developers.
A short game about an NSA sent into a warehouse to investigate something or someone taking up a lot of power from the power grid, only to find AI that has become self-aware...
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