PC SlavicPunk: Oldtimer (I swear to God this is the actual name!) - a "cyberpunk istometric shooter" based on the fiction of Polish author Michał Gołkowski

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

SlavicPunk: Oldtimer on Steam

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The game is an isometric shooter. The story revolves around Yanus- a private investigator with a troubled past trying to solve the case of stolen data while fighting his inner demons, urban gangs and an omnipotent corporation responsible for the decay of the city he once used to call his own.

 

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SlavicPunk: Oldtimer is an isometric shooter video game, based upon the works of Michał Gołkowski, a renown Polish science-fiction and fantasy books author. It is him who created the story of Yanus – a private investigator with a troubled past, now trying to solve an unexpected case revolving around a stolen data carrier, all this while fighting his own inner demons, the urban gangs and a nigh-omnipotent corporation responsible for the downfall of the city he used to call his own.

 

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A unique, inherently Slavic take on the cyberpunk world is sure to leave none indifferent thanks to its sharp, caustic sense of humour and a slightly pessimistic outlook at the neon-grey shades of the surrounding reality, at the same time providing a much needed breath of fresh air to the genre itself.

 

As opposed to the totally optimistic, happy-go-lucky outlook of every other work of cyberpunk fiction?!?!

 

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As a team, the question we asked ourselves was: what was the world going to look like in a couple of decades? How would a hypothetical Central and Eastern European city and its inhabitants differ from, say, Blade Runner ‘s L.A. or Akira’s Neo Tokyo?”.

 

The attempts to answer this puzzle has had a tremendous deal of influence upon the game’s artistic choices, including a mix of futuristic-esque and overly outdated technologies, the grim, brutalist architecture typical of the post-communist countries, the character’s not-so-obvious moral choices and the often crudely makeshift, yank-and-tuck character and atmosphere of an environment overpacked with people forced to cope with the uneven distribution of goods and wealth, often relying on their wits and sheer luck to make it to the next paycheck without losing their minds.

 

 

 

 

[Bacon]

I clicked the thread thinking, "You know, maybe it won't be another isometric shooter this time."

It always it.

 

Edit: Guess I should have actually read the full thread title.

[Demut]

This made me remember that I want another Shadowrun Returns-like cyberpunk game.