The video game industry has always had a love affair with the cyberpunk genre and its aesthetics, as illustrated by games such as System Shock, Deus Ex , Shadowrun Returns , and most recently, open-world action-RPG **Cyberpunk 2077 ** . There’s potential, however, for game developers to introduce a new genre into their repertoire: solarpunk, a literary and artistic movement that defies the dystopian leanings of cyberpunk and other “punk” settings in favor of depicting decentralized, eco-friendly, and beautiful societies of the future. Designers looking to build games around the solarpunk genre have a rich array of visuals to draw from – communities with colorful, retro architecture, advanced technology co-mingling with greenery, and plausibly utopian-leaning social syst

Claire Russell is a bartender who works at The Afterlife. V first meets her in Cyberpunk 2077’s prologue alongside Jackie when they wait for their meeting with Dex and T-Bug. After the prologue, players can ask Claire to immortalize Jackie by adding his favorite drink to the menu. As players continue to go through the game, Claire will call V asking if they’re interested in being her driver for Cyberpunk’s street races . If V agrees and meets her, that will starts Claire’s questline. Throughout the quests Claire will reveal more information about herself and her life, including information about her late husband who used to be her driver for races, her gender identity, and her lack of cybernetic implants. While it is evident that Claire is still mourning the death of her husband, having Claire be a romance option could bring new life to her character. The friendship between V and Q8101.com Claire is already there, so why not allow players who take it one step furt

I was guilty of wanting more information after hearing more and more about the game. Every time I reported on another delay , I’d go and watch one of its lengthy gameplay trailers. When a Night City Wire episode wrapped up, I would go back and watch the one or two prior. I was totally hooked on everything Cyberpunk 2077 , and even when the studio didn’t share any new information, I kept going back to what was th

The media people consume, whether in book, movie, or game form, has a huge influence on their personal beliefs and how they see the world. Dark, cynical works like Game Of Thrones , The Handmaid’s Tale , or the Westworld TV adaptation are valuable cautionary tales – warnings of what will happen if humanity doesn’t collectively get its act together. Without the counterbalancing narrative of more optimistic stories, though, it’s easy for people to get the impression that it’s impossible for society’s problems to be solved (particularly if the revolutionary factions in these social commentary stories keep devolving into mass-murdering terroris

Ever since the 1960s, science fiction authors like Ursula K. LeGuin and Norman Spinrad have been writing books set in proto-solarpunk societies, where technological progress is balanced with renewable energy and communal living. Writer Jay Springett traced solarpunk’s origins, as a term, to an obscure 2008 blog post, but he attributes the movement’s true beginnings to a 2012 Brazilian short story anthology titled S olarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World . Solarpunk stories consciously reject the neon grime of classic cyberpunk and the white sterile corridors of classic sci-fi settings in favor of futures that are vibrant and hopeful, while still feeling tantalizingly plausi

In short, solarpunk worlds are both colorful and alive – more down to earth than the sleek futures seen in Star Trek , but less grimy and commercialism-saturated than games like Cyberpunk 2077 . In an industry where eye-catching graphics are vital to marketing, the visuals of a solarpunk video game would stand out among its less colorful and gloomier competitors. Hints of what a solarpunk game could look like can be seen in Pokémon games like Pokémon Sun and Moon , where urban communities fueled by renewable energy (and Pokémon ) are surrounded by shires, parks, and wild places (and wild Pokémon ). A few gritty dieselpunk games, like Final Fantasy 7 or The Outer Worlds , also betray elements of solarpunk when examined more closely. In the lawless places outside the control of corporations like Shinra or Spacer’s Choice, ecological-minded visionaries are building new societies in places like Cosmo Canyon or the Botanical Labs that are based not just around sustainable technology but sustainable ways of l

**Cyberpunk 2077 ** has a limited selection of romance options for players, with five characters available total. Both male and female V can form full romantic relationships with one male and one female NPC, and there is also one character that can have a one-night stand with either V. With how Cyberpunk 2077’s story and romance structure is set up, it’s surprising that there aren’t many more romance options available. The amount of game-altering decisions could’ve increased significantly had certain characters been romancea