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Peripeteia offers beguiling, maddening cyberpunk beauty
This indie immersive sim is an uncompromising thriller that trusts you to find your own way in an abyssal cyberpunk sprawl.
Watch on YouTube Alongside admirably flexible, if frustratingly janky, first-person traversal, you'll do lots of fiddling about with one of the grottiest (complimentary) inventories I've ever seen in a video game, as if it has been beamed directly out of 1999's Garage: Bad Dream Adventure, held together with little more than gaffer tape. Such crucial moments are hardly signposted: they just kind of happen, over in the blink eye before the game thrusts you down another sewer of immense, unfathomably vast pipework whose effluence is rendered in queasy Matrix green. Image credit: Eurogamer/Ninth Exodus Cyberpunk has, if you ask me, become a little aspirational in recent years with a certain oligarch turned unelected U.S. government official taking all the wrong fascist lessons from Deus Ex.
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