I don’t know if the game will ever go anywhere or fade into vaporware hell, but even if that’s the case, the trailer’s too fun not to share.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4193010/Hypernet_Explorer/

Hypernet Explorer is an immersive-sim roguelike set in a weird and alternate 2001, where the Y2K bug shattered reality and erased most modern technology, that is slowly being rebuilt using magic and the occult.
Form a party to explore a 92 floor skyscraper that barely holds the cosmos together or just get lost in alternate activities; manage a cursed pizza place, become a certified tarot reader, date yourself from another plane of existence, start your own space program, get filthy rich by manipulating the soul market and… go bowling with your beloved cousin.
Every boundary that once separated religion, science, finance and magic is now obsolete so… do what thou wilt.

Honestly, I could use some of this shit into a TTRPG campaign, it’s just too good.

Names are power…and money is power! And it happens that Mario Draghi’s name is written over a billion times on 14.5 billion euro banknotes in pre-printing phase. This gives hypercapitalists who amassed huge amounts of euros huge arcane and political powers.

  • qarbone
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    27 minutes ago

    This is the sort of pipedream, hyperspecific indie project I only want to learn about after the dev’s been working on it for 14 years already, and it’s only 6 more years until it finally releases.

  • C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    I can’t imagine a game ever living up to what that trailer promises. I’m not sure whether to thank you or curse you for that experience.