Cloudpunk

+ Incredible pixel art neon world + Atmospheric audio soundscape (although repetitive) + Some NPCs really grow on you. Especially Camus. + Some minor progress in stuff you buy for your outfit, car and appartment. - Lack of real gameplay and real progress (stats, skills, reputation, ...) makes the world feel like a holo muffin: yummy, but unfulfilling. It's more like an awesome tech demo than a game. - All areas are small islands. You can only land on their single parking lot, run around and leave again. You never get the idea of being in one huge megacity that you can traverse and explore by foot. - Flying around in your hovercar is not really fun. The highways are full of cars and pillars you bump into, going up or down is slow and only works up to a certain (invisible) point. The first person perspective is awesome for immersion, but hitting a parking spot gets even more difficult. A racing game with this handling would never be released. - Exploring the world by foot is not fun either. You're slow, there is no interaction with the world, you can't find any secrets or quests or enter any buildings. The game places the same 3-5 generic items on each island to force you to explore them because you wouldn't have any reason to do so otherwise. Dead ends regularly force you to backtrack big chunks of your way for even more frustration. - Main quest and its resolution are weird and left me confused. No idea what happened and what it all meant. - Some cringy commentary on "cultural appropiation", "predatory men", and other woke tropes made it hard to identify with the protagonist Rania, because I would not say the things she says. A multichoice menu would have solved that. Also, this destroys any immersion and takes the game from some Blade Runner future into some leftist Twitter bubble from 2020. Thanks for that. Bottomline: even though the cons sound bad, it's a good game with great potential for future installments with better gameplay (e.g. Nivalis in 2024)!

very good

Relaxing expirience. Never-ending rains, shining neon lights and and high-tech low life in pixel art jacket.

After buying the Ultimate Bundle I spent all my free time playing CloudPunk and then City of Ghosts, going back to CloudPunk to finish all the side quests after I finished City of Ghosts. I loved just driving around, though it could be a bit of a challenge sometimes because the other HOVAs don't seem to react to yours. The atmosphere is fantastic; even though it's a dystopic future, I still want to move to Nivalis. Soundtrack is fantastic. When I can't sleep I often put it on to help me relax.

Excellente représentation du style futuriste cyberpunk, entre l'esprit cynisque, l'apparence grandiloquante, l'humeur froide et amère. C'est une histoire intéressante, un jeu amusant Ni plus, ni moins, une oeuvre complète