cyberpunkdreams

cyberpunkdreams

Late Night Games · May 14, 2021 · Cyberpunk, RPG, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Story Rich

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About cyberpunkdreams

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Navigate a sprawling, lawless 2090s Cincinnati with over 3 million words of evolving content, where your choices permanently shape NPCs and the world around you through a daily Action Point system designed for long-term play. Create and transform your character however you want—customize gender, body modifications, sexuality, and presentation—while experiencing gritty, uncompromising cyberpunk storytelling where violence, poverty, romance, and consequence are all yours to define.

The city is spread before you, horizon to horizon, a vast sore squatting on the world. 24 million people, most of it lawless slum and favela. The last outpost of civilisation on the edge of the badlands. One of the most relevant, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Is it any wonder you ended up here?
cyberpunkdreams is an evolving text-based life-sim with countless opportunities and endless chances for creation and destruction. Take on the role of a lone wanderer sent to the gates of 2090s Cincinnati. The dirt and grit from the badlands coats your clothes -- with your memories torn from you, all you have is a weapon across your back and a mission to complete. Enter a living, growing world, with over 3.1 million words of content and over 3,000 unique pieces of hand-drawn artwork, Experience new stories and other content each and every month, plus regular limited time events. You’ll always find new surprises waiting for you in Cinci's dark and dirty alleys. Who will you become in this cesspool of a city? Will you play the games and climb to the top, or be forgotten amongst the march of time and tyranny?

Every action counts cyberpunkdreams is designed to be played in short bursts over the long term. You have a limited number of Action Points to use every real life day, and any number of ways you can use them. Draw from your decks and risk reward or injury. Stick to safer places to rest, recuperate and work on your skills, or work with your inventory to prepare for the next hustle. Events can unfold over days, weeks or even months. You can also store Action Points for later use, using breathers, hit the binge button for extended play sessions and discover new ways to hack and manipulate the system. The Action Point system establishes pacing in an brutal setting where any mistake could cost your life, as well as enabling the development team to keep creating stories every month, maintaining the game as free-to-play and always giving you more to discover. cyberpunkdreams has been in continuous development since 2013, with no plans for slowing down.So ease yourself in for one long, wild ride. cyberpunkdreams is a living game that will be updated with new content for years to come. Uncompromising cyberpunk narrative Enter a future grounded in reality: a world distorted by corporations and dominated by poverty. This is down to the bone cyberpunk, as raw as it gets: violent, gritty and sexual... if you want it to be. Experience a world just a turn of a corner away from our own. Be ready for hard, bitter choices. Be ready to carve out your niche with whatever it takes, be it blood, love and everything in between. Learn who you are through your actions & choices Your abilities are intrinsically tied to your successes and failures. There are a multitude of ways to solve each problem you’ll encounter – what you choose impacts not only your chances of making it out alive, but also how your character grows and experiences the world. Who needs romance when you have hard banging? cyberpunkdreams offers everything from long term partnerships to dirty alleyway hook-ups. Experience the sleaze of slums sex work, the buzz of Interstate or the dark pleasures of the Projects. Be in charge or be under someone's heel. The choices are endless – including to opt out completely, if that's your preference.
Probably the most gender-friendly game of all timeWhat would cyberpunk be without the ability to transform your body to match who you really are? To be who you really are? cyberpunkdreams features many ways to modify your physical form, as well as an incredibly detailed gender system. You've got you physical sex, then your true gender, including a wide range of choices such as demigender or flexible, then what you're currently presenting as, then what you're most commonly known as in each location in the game, all of which can evolve over time. And all these choices matter. The  people around you will react to you differently depending on who you are.Choices have consequences, and the city remembers Your choices aren’t detached from the lives of the people around you. Richly detailed NPCs will evolve on their own, remember and react to the alliances you create, the mercy you give and the morals you stand by. If you’re looking for a true lesson of consequence, you’ve come to the right city. Be ready for people who don't care about you, or care about you too much. People who will revel in your choices, or hate them.
Embrace yourself, flaws and all cyberpunkdreams offers highly customisable character creation that continues throughout your entire time in Cincinnati. Become who you want to be. Occupy your skin in any way you choose. Gender, sexuality, cybernetics, mutations, clothing and equipment all combine to create a fluid system with any number of possibilities. Choose not just what you do but why you do it. Respond to the things that happen to you with glee or bitter remorse, and choose which of these inner feelings to share with the NPCs who are close to you.
Screen reader compatibility cyberpunkdreams is an illustrated text-based game, and as such fully screen reader compatible. There is an active community of screen reader users on our Discord.

cyberpunkdreams — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Aug 23, 2026
The developer himself either deliberately ignores the questions I ask or simply doesn't bother answering them. Even when other people in the Discord channel answer, there's always a chance that some of the information they provide is incorrect, and there is generally no one around to correct that misinformation. The Discord community also has a strong elitist feel to it. A lot of information about the game's systems and story seems to be known by long-time players but rarely shared openly, almost as if certain things are meant to remain hidden from newcomers. This creates an environment where new players are often left to figure things out on their own. Considering that the game is real-time-based, even a simple mistake can potentially ruin a run with a high day count. On top of all this, people in the Discord channel also make fun of other users' negative reviews. Having disagreements over a game is perfectly normal, but mocking people simply because they had a negative experience is quite disappointing and, in my opinion, reflects poorly on the community as a whole.
11 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 30, 2026
This game is a scam. Impossible to make progress without spending a ton of money, the game constantly cheats in combat and when your character is being chased by hostile mobs that suddenly "catch up" and beat your character up and steal everything on you so basically your character is broken and you have to delete your character and start all the way over from the beginning. Trash dev. Don't get me wrong - you have a great idea for a game, but your greediness and inability to understand what makes a game fun - which is the entire purpose of a game is to have FUN, not feel like it's a job I hate. Remove the stupid limit on actions - at least in the intro part of the game would make the game a lot more fun. But hey, you would rather be a snob and that is on you.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 28, 2026
Big deal for the literate crowd
3 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 31, 2026
I enjoy this game a lot, though it has some draw backs. It is difficult sometimes to keep motivated about playing because it often feels like i get an hour or so to get through my action points, but haven't gotten anywhere with my effort and have to wait hours to pick it back up. I have gotten to a point where I'm living an okay life, but i've yet to actually be able to do anything beyond errands and some small jobs i can send my crews on here and there, so still making it on small cash. Im slowly working my way to all the fun stuff, but this game is definitely not for someone who cant play it slow, reallyyy slow. having said that- I truly enjoy the narrative side of this game and i hope one day when the game has gotten off its feet more that a lot of the paywalls will change, like some way to earn credits without spending actual money. I enjoy the characters and love a lot of the options that they have for your character (just sucks how many you have to put real money towards on that front, but i know at this time its probably necessary).
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 3, 2026
I understand the argument that the game is designed around short play sessions, but personally I don't find that explanation convincing. The energy system felt less like a gameplay feature and more like a limitation that encouraged spending money. I have nothing against that in itself if it is presented honestly, rather than being described as simply how the game is meant to be played or as a feature. I also found some of the developer responses to criticism discouraging, particularly when responses directed readers toward comments from people defending the game or simply came across as defensive. This isn't meant as an attack on the developer or the people who enjoy the game. I'm simply sharing why my own experience led me to not recommend it.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 29, 2026
true-to-life ohio simulator
1 found this helpful

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