You can endlessly guess what the future holds for us and our descendants, or you can open a selection of games where everything has already been predicted and predicted for the next 100 years. Changes have already begun, and there are first signs that corporations will come to power in the future. Perhaps even some of the plots of these titles will be confirmed in real life.
When making games, developers often aim at the setting of the distant or not so future. And this future is very different in the eyes of each company: in one game, an ideal, progressive and technological tomorrow is presented, where people live like in Eden, and in another project, the futuristic world is more like a frightening anti-utopia.
The concept of tomorrow has often attracted players more than the action of the past, and the release of Cyberpunk 2077 once again revived the trend in the cyberpunk genre. We present to your attention a selection of the ten best games that take place during the technological dawn.
Mirror's Edge Catalyst
The action of the second part of one of the best parkour games takes place in a magnificent city of the future – Mirrorwhich clearly shows all fruits of technological progress. Everything is fine here, except for the government, which is represented by totalitarian mega-corporations that have established anti-utopian laws.
The Kruger-Sec Corporation is secretly developing the Reflection project, which can finally allow you to get total control over a stratified population Mirrors. The main character, after 3 years, still goes free and immediately joins her flock. Team Faith, meanwhile, is actively preparing to fight the Kruger Sec and a real war for the freedom of the city.
The Ascent
The main character is an ordinary gear in a huge mechanism of the system. The player character works for the Ascent Group, the largest corporation in the world with incredible influence.
Life goes on as usual, until mysterious circumstances abruptly end the existence of Ascent, and the hero himself is drawn into very unpleasant events: the fall of security systems, the division of spheres of influence of the AG, attempts by criminal authorities to take advantage of the situation.
Ghost runner
Ghostrunner is very similar to the symbiote of Mirror's Edge, Cyberpunk2077 and TitanFall, and that's a good thing. The plot begins in post-apocalyptic future world, which survived many collapses, and less than 5% of the entire population remained. The survivors moved into a huge tower built by a mysterious Architect. The peculiarity of the tower is also that it directly shows class division of society: the lower strata (poor, workers) live from below, and the elite at the top.
Years passed and Dharma, which had previously served as a haven for the surviving population, began to turn into hell. The ruler of the tower, Mara, gets rid of the Architect and begins a horrific repression. The player takes control of a ghostly runner, the best swordsman of all living and living before. Now the main task is punish the traitor and free the city from the tyrant. The game pleasantly pleases the eye with neon locations and spectacular battles.
Saints Row 4
The saga of the saints shows the player a very unusual concept of the future, which is not often touched upon. The gang of Saints who have become Presidents of the United States are preparing for a press conference at the White House. Unexpectedly, it was interrupted by aliens who decided to visit Earth. Later, the entire gang gathers on a spaceship and begins prepare a plan for the return of the city.
An ordinary metropolis, which players can remember from the third part of Saints Row, has turned into an abode of neon towers, red spotlights shine from the sky, and alien patrols drive through the streets. Now, in addition to the usual criminal showdowns, the player will have to perform non-standard tasks, regularly visit space stations and plunge into the frightening world of the future.
Katana Zero
Pixel platformer, which is made very soundly and conscientiously. The main character is the swordsman Zero, who has been tormented by a certain disease for a long time. Of the side effects, Zero has memory loss and headaches, which he thinks are related to the past. Because of this, the man visits a psychiatrist, who along the way gives him contracts to eliminate certain subjects.
The surrounding world of the swordsman is cruel and ruthless: heavy and oppressive pressure of corporations makes itself known. The state is trying to enslave its citizens, using the armed forces and the drug that people are addicted to. The game is filled with colorful battles, a lot of effects and references to retro games.
Watchdogs 2
Marcus Holloway is a member of the hacker group DedSec. A young burglar enters into a kind of association of rebels who oppose the system. Their main goal is to destroy the ctOS system, which is aimed at total control of society through and has already managed to destroy the life of the protagonist. Teaming up with experienced hackers and criminals, Marcus begins his fight against corporations and the state.
Despite the fact that Watch Dogs 2 takes place in modern-day San Francisco, the technological progress in the game has far outstripped that in real life. Everything in this city is connected via a network, people are dependent on technology, and ctOS is expanding its spheres of influence more and more. Ubisoft, using the example of an ordinary US city, shows what can happen to a society if you succumb too much to the influence of technology and forget about everything.
Deus Ex
Deus Ex truly represents the forefather of the cyberpunk genre in gaming. In 2052 the planet is gradually covered by catastrophes: An economic collapse begins, due to which governments weaken and lose influence, and terrorist groups begin to appear on such fertile soil.
The protagonist serves in an anti-terrorist organization, which must use all available technologies in order to fight evil. Beyond social issues, in an anti-utopian future a terrible epidemic begins, a vaccine to combat which is extremely small, but even its grains go exclusively to the elites of this world.
Watch Dogs: Legion
The third part of Watch Dogs takes off in London of the future. A beautiful, bright, neon-filled, but very unpleasant "tomorrow": constant surveillance, military corporations take control of states, criminal gangs flourish, and the situation is only getting worse. The main character, who will need to be recruited independently, is waiting a long struggle for the freedom of London, battling the state and opposing factions.
The plot begins with the fact that the enemy Zero-Day faction organizes a terrorist attack in the center of London, trying to frame DedSec. The consequences were horrendous: part of the group died, another part went missing, and the rest had to lie low. After such upheavals, the player will have to restore respect to a gang of hackers and protect the innocent.
Detroit: Become Human
The game takes place in 2038, in Detroit. Humans have advanced technologically to the extent that they are not the only sentient beings. Promising corporation Cyberlife were developed humanoid robots - Androids, which are adapted for completely different tasks: cleaning, security and much more. Cities are fully adapted to the convenience of people: android charging stations, automated stores, autopilot buses.
But the idyll ends at the moment when some robots become aware of their existence: they understand that they are also alive and able to feel. Then the situation starts to get out of control. The player will be given control over three characters, whose non-linear stories will take place at the same time, but directly depend on each choice of the player. And only the player has to decide will androids live on a par with humans or will they remain slaves?
Cyberpunk 2077
The plot of the sensational role-playing game begins in the distant 2077 in the city of the future "Night City". After a series of crises and wars between the superpowers, the US state had to ask for help and funds from corporations, which will soon transfer all power to these same corporations.
There are two worlds: an expensive and progressive center dominated by all-powerful corporations, and a polluted, backward and poor outskirts, where poverty is widespread and all influence is divided between factions, each of which controls its own area. In Night City, power, luxury and body modifications are valued, so the main character has a long way to go from a simple "no-name" to one of the most significant residents of the city.
Read on:Despite the technical failure of the game (bugs / lags / optimization), the plot turned out to be quite interesting. If you want to get to know the game better, we recommend: walkthrough Cyberpunk 2077 with all possible endings.
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