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This is a slow "day in the life" type of short film but the production quality is incredible.

This webcomic has been around for awhile but the illustrations are incredible. It's incomplete and I don't think the artist will come back to it, but you should definitely check it out.

https://www.yuumeiart.com/fisheye-placebo-chapters

There's a good cyberpunk story being told here, but I actually think the decision to make the movie in black & white worked to its detriment. I had trouble distinguishing between minor characters since there's so little detail in the faces. Also, that screenshot makes it look like an action movie, it's more of a detective story. I do recommend it though.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ftZhphGgwo

Turbo Overkill is a fast-paced FPS that just exited Early Access with an Overwhelmingly Positive rating and 2,000+ reviews.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328350/Turbo_Overkill/

Karl Urban plays a cop in a cyberpunk city who hates androids and he's assigned an android partner to work with. Over the course of the series, his character gradually learns to accept and respect his android partner. Except you'd never know that watching the show as it aired.

Fox aired the episodes out of order so Karl Urban's character constantly jumps between respecting the android and being a jerk to the android from episode to episode. With no continuity, the show had terrible ratings and was cancelled after one season. I hate that all streaming services and even the DVD kept the incorrect airing order. None of them use the production order, which is how it was intended to be watched:

It's a shame too, because throughout the season there are references to "The Wall". They keep mentioning how no one crosses The Wall. And yet in the very last scene of the last episode... someone crosses The Wall. I would've liked to see where they took that storyline.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3zsK38y72I

Anon takes place in a world where everyone has Augmented Reality vision. Looking at someone will tell you their name and occupation. And everything everyone sees is uploaded to government servers. In this world, a hacker (Amanda Seyfried) is able to hack this system and inject whatever she wants into your vision and also edit the stream going to government servers. So she makes a living covering up the crimes of others.

AR vision, hackers, oppressive government, it all sounds cyberpunk. But there are no neon lights here, only brutalist grey concrete everywhere. And rather than the hacker being the Robin Hood-type fighting against oppression, the story follows a detective (Clive Owen) who's trying to hunt down this hacker, mostly because she's creating blind spots in their all-seeing eye of surveillance. The movie treats the detective as the sympathetic "good guy" and the hacker as the "bad guy" who needs to be stopped. So the movie is more about data privacy than cyberpunk, but I still enjoyed it.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJOoYhQcQBI
And it's on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80195964

In this series, everyone is chipped with a Security Identification Number (SIN). So those without SINs call themselves "saints".

When I say the series is "violent" I mean action-movie violence, not horror-movie violence. And when I say "vulgar" I mean using the word "cunting" as an adjective ("I'll rip off his cunting head"). Overall, I thought the series was pretty fun. It won't win any awards, but it's a fun pulp cyberpunk read.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SQGK5KT

"Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace??"

Let's do another one of these... Do you think Tron is cyberpunk?

The majority of the movie takes place inside a computer and the bad guy is near the head of an evil corporation, but is that enough? The characters in the movie range from scientist to a computer programmer who owns his own arcade. Not exactly low-lifes. And the only thing that could be considered high-tech is a prototype laser in a laboratory currently under research. Otherwise, it's a perfectly ordinary modern-day setting. There's no breakdown in society, there's no massive wealth gap on display (unless you count someone not getting recognition for a video game he wrote).

So are the visuals of a world inside a computer enough to call it cyberpunk?

You can watch Tron on Disney+ if you haven't seen it before: https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/tron/4MFq1JeXEe1z

(On a side note, I'm tempted to make a weekly "is this cyberpunk?" post just to help grow the community and drive discussion)

I don't know anything about this game other than what's in the article but I figured I'd share. So when it says there are sex scenes, I have no idea if it's the "may contain nudity" type or more "full-blown hentai game" type. Good luck to anyone who tries it!

The show was about a low-life trying to infiltrate a corporation. I find it interesting because all other cyberpunk stories I know will only show the evil CEO hiding at the top of some giant building. It's rare to find a story that shows the life of the average worker drone. Obviously, it was cancelled after one season.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eKEHhSw00

This video is only 4 minutes long and I still struggled to get through it. It's rough.