Steam Cyberpunk Fest – IndieGameReviewer’s Top 20 Picks

Steam Cyberpunk Fest: August 2026

The best genre of sci-fi (fight me) currently has a massive Steam sale spotlighting it. There is a lot more to cyberpunk than the Red capital C type in the city of night. Here are some quality picks to check out before the sale is over (and even worth checking out after it is). With additional comments by our EIC Indie-Game-Freak.

Minds Beneath Us

by BearBone Studio

A gripping narrative adventure taking place in a future where humans are exploited by AI, Minds Beneath Us is the best kind of speculative fiction. The dialogue is sometimes overlong, but it works in a story that has this much to say.

Dystopika

by Voids Within

Ever looked at the dystopian cityscapes of something like Blade Runner and felt oddly relaxed? If so, Dystopika will absolutely be your jam. You get to build the ultimate brutalist masterpiece of your dreams while chilling out to some great music, and it’s bizarrely compelling.

Indie-Game-Freak: What’s also cool is that this is an usual product – you are effectively level designing for something that has no game. It’s a dynamic flythrough screensaver and you can feel the developer figuring out what else it can be as it goes.

VA-11 HALL-A

by Sukeban Games

Anime is an art form that embraced cyberpunk pretty hard, and nowhere is that more obvious than in games like VA-11 HALL-A. You work as a bartender mixing drinks for all kinds of crazy characters, and its branching stories lead to plenty of intrigue and commentary. Sometimes you’re even best off not listening to someone’s order and surprising them.

Indie-Game-Freak: Coffee Talk for cyborgs. Check out our previous full length review of VA-11 HALL-A

Cloudpunk

by ION LANDS

Working as a delivery driver and flying across a series of gorgeous futuristic cityscapes, you only have two rules to follow: don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package. What follows is an oddly soothing but gripping adventure that’s guaranteed to stick with you.

Indie-Game-Freak: I spent a lot more time in this world than I expected to. Despite the many updates added to make it story-richer, it ends up being a kind of that-flying-car-scene-in-The-Fifth-Element-if-that-was-your-life simulator, where you can stop at any given block and wander around and talk to shady NPCs and buy street food. Interesting, weird, and maybe not all you expect, but, kind of in a good way.

Mind Scanners

by The Outer Zone

Using an interface that looks straight out of an Apple II adventure game, you dive into the minds of residents of a dystopian hellscape to treat their mental issues. However, you’re always on the clock, and the corporation has your daughter. Equal parts hacking sim, and Papers, Please, this is a game that’s not for the faint of heart.

Indie-Game-Freak: Papers, Please – Voight Kampff edition.

Keylocker

by Moonana

Keylocker rules. Part tactics RPG and part rhythm-game, you challenge a world where music is outlawed by battling all kinds of cybernetic baddies with your voice and instruments. The game takes direct inspiration from interaction-heavy RPG battle systems like Paper Mario, and the whole thing has style to spare.

Silicon Dreams

by James Patton & Clockwork Bird

This game is about as classically cyberpunk as it gets. As an android evaluator for a ruthless corporation, you evaluate potentially deviant and defective androids using a Voight-Kampf test straight out of Blade Runner. I loved this game’s take on interactive storytelling back when I reviewed it, and I still love it today.

Indie-Game-Freak: Mind Scanners meets Orwell

The Red Strings Club

by Deconstructeam

A point and click adventure about resisting corporate brainwashing, The Red Strings Club nails its delivery thanks to a combination of gameplay styles and incredible writing. There’s a ton of tension to its conversations, and you genuinely feel like saying the wrong thing could spell disaster for your team’s entire plan.

Neon Chrome

by 10tons Ltd

Questions of humanity and late stage capitalism are a cornerstone of cyberpunk, but so is blowing up rogue AI constructs with all manner of crazy gear. Neon Chrome accomplishes this beautifully via a combination of procedural level design and tight twin-stick shooting. There’s also co-op, so bring your whole hacker group to the party.

Indie-Game-Freak: Better than it has any right to be, and high rating even after a decade, but too few have discovered it.

2064: Read-Only Memories

by Midboss LLC

Trading night-time and neon for pleasant pastels, 2064 has no less bite to its story than many of the more dour adventures on this list. Investigating the origins of the world’s first sentient robot leads to all kinds of dark revelations, all told through an incredibly engaging narrative.

Indie-Game-Freak: We first discovered this at IndieCade where it made FictiveTruism‘s top picks from the show in 2022

Nobody Wants to Die

by Critical Hit Games

As a detective investigating a serial killer in a future where people can replace their bodies (if they have enough money), this game is tense, immersive, and just outright gorgeous. It asks plenty of questions about the nature of humanity in a world like this (as all good cyberpunk does), and some of the revelations about the world are genuinely shocking and fascinating.

HeistGeist

by Doublequote Studio

Part RPG and part card battler, HeistGeist is all about choices. From narrative choices to choices of how you build your deck of actions for battles, there’s plenty of reasons to replay it. Great for anyone who likes to customize their experience.

Technobabylon

by Technocrat Games

The genre really seems to lend itself well to adventure games eh? Seriously though, Technobabylon is an essential game thanks to its incredible storytelling told across the perspectives of three different protagonists. It’s a juggling act for any story to accomplish, and this one does it masterfully.

Indie-Game-Freak: A couple of brothers – Ivan Kozmon, and Martin Kozmon made the cyberpunk game of their dreams with total team of four (including themselves). Beautiful hand illustrations and nice to see the game constantly improving and evolving. It also has a very interesting combat system.

Martin Kozmon

Invisible, Inc.

by Klei Entertainment

Klei doesn’t miss, and Invisible, Inc. is no exception. A tactical stealth-action game all about corporate espionage and hacking, the sheer variety of ways you can tackle the game’s missions is enough to encourage multiple replays, and that’s even before you try its multiple different modes. Seriously, don’t miss this one.

ANNO: Mutationem

by ThinkingStars

With gorgeous 2.5D visuals and a mix of exploration and action, ANNO: Mutationem never gives you a moment to get bored. Protagonist Ann gives you plenty of opportunities to delve into the game’s incredible world while also kicking tons of ass with guns and melee moves, all of which feel extremely well-tuned.

Quadrilateral Cowboy

by Bendo Games

The kind of cyberpunk video game that William Gibson himself would probably have envisioned, this casts you as a hacker with a portable deck and one goal: steal what you’re paid to by any means necessary. The game gives you tons of ways to accomplish your missions, all using real programming logic that is accessible but surprisingly deep.

Jack Move

by So Romantic

A traditional JRPG heavily-inspired by the Phantasy Star series, Jack Move trades swords and sorcery for hacking and technological wizardry. Its story is fairly tropey, but you’ll stop caring between the game’s incredible battle system, tons of customization, and gorgeous art style. It’s even genuinely funny at times!

The Enigma Machine

by ENIGMA STUDIO

Cyberpunk and horror don’t get combined as often as they should, and The Enigma Machine does a really effective job of it by having you dive into the thoughts of an AI program. What follows is a tense, genuinely unsettling delve into technological madness, and it’s an experience I’m not going to forget anytime soon.

SPRAWL

by MAETH

I reviewed SPRAWL back when it first launched, and I like it more each time I play it. With Titanfall-inspired parkour and gunplay, retro visuals and a healthy dose of love for Ghost in the Shell, this is a great choice for anyone whose solution to the questions of the future is a hail of bullets and explosions.

Shadowrun Trilogy

by Harebrained Schemes

A trilogy of games set in the world of one of the best cyberpunk tabletop RPGs to ever do it, these tactical RPGs offer plenty of ways to customize your protagonist and take different paths through the story. Returns is the game that brought the series back to the world of video games, but Dragonfall and Hong Kong are where the real meat of the trilogy lies.

Let us know if you find anything cool in the sale!

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