![]() ![]() Not only that, since it’s set something like 70 years into the future, being LGBT is pretty much a total and utter non-issue too. Cyberspace is shown to be a meritocratic place where both rich and poor are pretty much equal to each other ( albeit with the side effect that poorer people are more likely to become addicted to it as a result). Likewise, the game’s futuristic world isn’t completely dystopian too. Oh government computer, you loveable rogue! Yes, my summary of the game’s plot sounds hopelessly generic and it really doesn’t do the game’s story justice – but if you like deep, intelligent cyberpunk storytelling in the tradition of “ Neuromancer“, “ Blade Runner“, “ Ghost In The Shell” and “ Deus Ex“, then you’ll find it in abundance here. The premise and storyline of “Technobabylon” would take quite a while to describe here but, in summary, this is a game where you play as three people living in an AI-controlled mega-city who find themselves in the midst of a strange conspiracy. So, naturally, my expectations about “Technobabylon” were fairly high. Likewise, Wadjet Eye Games also has a bit of history with the cyberpunk genre when they released Joshua Nuernburger’s excellent “ Gemini Rue” a few years earlier. “Technobabylon” is a 1990s-style “point and click” game by Wadjet Eye Games and James Dearden that was released in 2015.Īs regular readers of this blog will probably know, I’m a fan of Wadjet Eye’s “Blackwell” series ( you can read my reviews of those games here, here, here, here and here). ![]() So, let’s take a look at “Technobablyon”: The chapter numbers seem to be in binary and I mistook “10” for ten and counted the chapter numbers accordingly. Likewise, I messed up the chapter numbers in the file names for the screenshots in this review. I should probably warn you that this review may contain some mild SPOILERS. ![]() “Technobabylon” is one of those games that I’d been meaning to play for ages, ever since I first read about it ( although the price seemed a bit too high for the limited gaming budget I had then), but only got round to buying during a sale on GOG a few days before I originally wrote this review. Thankfully, indie developers have proved themselves to be more than up to the task of filling this void in gaming culture. After all, it’s an entire genre of sci-fi that revolves around computers.īut, it is a genre has been relatively neglected by modern mainstream developers. The cyberpunk genre is one of those genres that really should appear more often in computer games. ![]()
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