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I don't know anything about this game other than what's in the trailer, but it reminds me a lot of Anno: Mutationem with its 2.5D pixel art style and (what appears to be) "exploration" sections completely separate from the "combat" sections. Who knows, maybe this game will have random combat encounters while also exploring, but in Anno: Mutationem those two styles were almost two separate games. You would be locked in a 2d-plane during combat but had 3d movement when exploring.

Anyway, Anno: Mutationem was a Chinese-made game; this game is Brazilian-made and takes place in Sao Paulo. If that means anything to you.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3066300/Sky_Dust/

Does a hacker protagonist immediately make a movie cyberpunk? Can a movie be cyberpunk if it takes place in the modern day?

I had an online argument once with someone who thought Sneakers wasn't just a cyberpunk movie but essential viewing for the cyberpunk genre. I don't consider Sneakers to be cyberpunk, or even a very good movie, so that argument was crazy to me. But maybe I was being too much of a gatekeeper; maybe other people consider Sneakers to be cyberpunk.

At least WarGames had a curious high schooler hacker rather than a bunch of old guys in suits hacking, but I wouldn't really consider either movie to be cyberpunk. Are they cyberpunk-adjacent though? Are cyberpunk fans likely to enjoy WarGames or Sneakers?

Here's a trailer for WarGames. You can watch it on Max. Fun fact: when Ronald Reagan watched WarGames, he asked his staff whether something like that could actually happen. They looked into it and came back to say "The problem is much worse than you think." This led to the creation of the first National Security Directive regarding computer security.

Here's a trailer for Sneakers. I'm not aware of any presidents having watched this movie. I don't think it's streaming anywhere either.

I know I seem to be posting a lot of Netflix shows lately, but I really just post anytime I come across a new cyberpunk-looking trailer and I can't help if they've all been on Netflix lately. I swear it's just a coincidence.

Anyway, this Tomorrow And I show looks like an anthology of cyberpunk stories just like Black Mirror. The trailer looks interesting at least. Coming to Netflix on December 4.

I've seen people recommending Pantheon a lot but I've never had a chance to watch it. It's never been available for streaming on any of the services I have. But, the series will be added to Netflix tomorrow (Friday) in the US so I'll finally get a chance to see it. I figured I'd share in case there are others who haven't seen it.

As far as I know, it's about people's consciousnesses being uploaded to cyberspace. Sounds cyberpunk to me.

As far as I can tell, there isn't a trailer for this anime on youtube but there is a trailer on its Netflix page so that's what I'm linking here.

The synopsis is:

When a lonely hacker gets entangled with a group of underground couriers, they uncover the dark truth lurking beneath Tokyo's seemingly perfect facade.

That sounds perfectly cyberpunk and I'm interested. But the trailer looks.... like a kids cartoon? Yet Netflix is calling it TV-MA? I really don't know what to think of this. I'll definitely watch it (I'm a sucker for anything cyberpunk) but I've got my expectations pretty low on this one.

It'll be available on Netflix on November 21.

What was the first cyberpunk video game you played? Were you playing the point & click adventure games back on DOS? Shadowrun on SNES? Deus Ex on PC? Or did you just recently discover this thing called "cyberpunk" with Cyberpunk 2077?

I'm curious how long everyone here has been into cyberpunk.

Molli and Max in the Future is a strange movie. It's basically When Harry Met Sally but set in a cyberpunk world. So the main plot of the story is the various chance encounters between Molli and Max throughout the years and eventually realizing love was right in front of them the whole time (obviously, I mean, that's not exactly a spoiler).

While this movie doesn't really have any cyberpunk themes, the visuals are very cyberpunk.

They spend time together in cyberspace while dressed like Tron:

They have a date in their cyberpunk city:

And there's a part in the movie where Max becomes a mecha fighter and dates his mech's AI.

So even though this is primarily a movie about finding love, the visuals were cyberpunk enough to keep me interested and a lot of the comedy bits worked for me. I don't know, I won't say I loved this movie so it isn't exactly a strong recommendation, but I wanted to bring it to people's attention just in case there are others out there who are more interested in rom-coms than I am. I've complained before about Amazon's tv series Upload and how I wish it wasn't a rom-com and spent more time exploring the cyberpunk world instead. This is very similar. It's a fun (comedic) cyberpunk world but the story is focused on two people falling in love. And I'm just not a rom-com type of person. So I can't say whether this movie is good or bad, I just know it isn't for me.

But, decide for yourself. Here's a trailer, and it's currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

Lemmy needs more content that isn't about US politics right now so I'm making a random post.

What's the most obscure cyberpunk movie you've seen? Name a cyberpunk movie you don't think anyone else has heard of.

I'm not saying you have to think it's a good movie (or that you even like it), I just want to discuss obscure, unknown cyberpunk movies. Come on, let's talk about something other than politics here.

Aside from the unfortunate name of "Virgin Punk" (which I think is a terrible name), this looks like a fairly standard anime about bounty hunters in a cyberpunk world. It could be fun.

New Netflix original starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, and Ke Huy Quan and the trailer has a slowed-down rock song. Perfect recipe for success, right??

I'll admit I don't know anything about The Electric State but I guess it's based on a graphic novel. From this trailer, it looks mostly post-apocalyptic but there's a shot of people wearing VR helmets so who knows, maybe there's some cyberpunk buried in there too.

I have no idea what this anime is about other than it appears to take place in a cyberpunk world and the main character seems to do parkour for... reasons. But it's from the creator of Cowboy Bebop (Shinichiro Watanabe) and I guess they got the director of the John Wick movies (Chad Stahleski) to choreograph the action sequences. So it'll probably be good.

I can't find any info about when it'll actually release, but sometime in 2025.

Finally a new action game based on Tron. Nothing against Tron: Identity but I'm not really a fan of visual novels. So I'm looking forward to this one.