Bad hours, shady bosses. The gig economic system’s powerful sufficient as-is, with out the chance of dropping a bundle off the facet of a ten-mile-high balcony. Released in the present day, Cloudpunk permits you to traipse round a shocking voxel cityscape, making deliveries and fixing mysteries like some sorta flying Deliveroo driver-turned-detective. Let’s simply hope you’re getting a bonus for all this sleuthing.
Disembodied voices ship a bit extra of Cloudpunk’s thriller in in the present day’s launch trailer. Importantly, nevertheless, it additionally flaunts extra beautiful pictures of Ion Lands’ beautiful voxel cityscape.
Cloudpunk’s pitch is a stable one, extrapolating a game out of each shot of Harrison Ford moping in his flying automotive. As a legitimately-fuzzy supply driver, main lass Rania will likely be making deliveries all throughout the rain-swept city labyrinth of Nivalis. In correct style custom, conspiracies are afoot, swiftly touchdown you in the course of one very lengthy evening of crime, intrigue, robots and capitalism.
Now, I’m no the most important fan of cyberpunk. But let you know what, my coronary heart’s all aflutter at Cloudpunk’s mile-high residential monstrosities, piling layer after layer atop one another till the town’s high canine can spit immediately within the face of god. Every so usually, you’ll get to step exterior your vertigo-inducing cab experience to go discover the streets on foot. The digital camera zooms in on the town’s unattainable structure, grounding it as a spot the place lives are lived by common people in an irregular place.
Vidbud Matthew took a take a look at Cloudpunk at EGX Berlin final yr. Driving about in an city storm appears even lovelier in movement. Mind, watching lo-fi flying vehicles dart a couple of metropolis additionally gave me the weirdest whiplash in remembering American McGee Presents: Scraplands. Huh.
CD Projekt’s hyperdetailed opus Cyberpunk 2077 would possibly’ve been pushed out of April, however Cloudpunk’s voxels are nothing to be scoffed at – delivering an impressively moody future on a decisively extra heightened scale.
Cloudpunk is out now on Steam for £15.29/€17.99/$17.99. We’ve been doing a bit sleuthing of our personal, and will have a full Cloudpunk assessment up as quickly because it’s decrypted.
