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# New visual novel should satisfy your lo-fi cyberpunk dreams
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/new-visual-novel-should-satisfy-your-lo-fi-cyberpunk-dreams/
- Published: 2016-05-04T13:00:02.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-04T08:12:08.000Z
- Description: New York City has a clichéd nickname: The City that Never Sleeps, referring to the restlessness of nightlife in the city. Similar is the metropolis in the newly released Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel, as it also never sleeps. But that’s because the sun never sets. Night never comes to toss its d
- Author: Caty Mccarthy
- Tags: News, cyber city 2157, cyberpunk, harotobira, lo-fi, mysticism, visual novel, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

New York City has a clichéd nickname: The City that Never Sleeps, referring to the restlessness of nightlife in the city. Similar is the metropolis in the newly released *Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel*, as it also never sleeps. But that’s because the sun never sets. Night never comes to toss its dark cloak over the city. The City (capitalized, as it is a character in itself) remains bright, shining, always ready to adventure—it doesn’t sleep because it doesn’t get a chance to. And you, the player, are tasked with navigating all its parks, suburbs, cemeteries, and even dreams.

Created by Harotobira, *Cyber City 2157* is, as written in its full title, a visual novel. It’s also an exploration of the fundamentals of mysticism and cyberpunk, inspired by postmodern literature and arthouse films. *Cyber City 2157*’s arthouse inspirations are at the forefront, with its lo-fi, forever-obscured backgrounds. The visual novel never cops to an anime-inspired aesthetic as so many others in the genre adhere to. Instead, it waives those trappings and ventures more into a Twine-like territory of narrative and choice.

![cyber city](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/akhyke.jpg)

In *Cyber City 2157*, you’re tasked with remembering a long-forgotten dream. As you wander towards an unknown future at work creating Molds—”perfect” human simulations that sound eerily similar to *Blade Runner*’s (1982) replicants. The dream is fragmented. There’s the abyss of the cosmos, a frightened astronaut, and that’s all you remember. *Cyber City 2157* is about recollecting that dream, and finding your own place in the City itself, as you reside in a reality that changes far too rapidly to even comprehend.

*Get a grip on lo-fi reality, as Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel is out now* [*on Steam for $5.99*](http://store.steampowered.com/app/454690?ref=killscreen.com)*, available on PC and Mac.*

![cyber city](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/6sonqw.jpg)