We’re having a bit of a cyberpunk moment. I’ve seen and played and received emails about loads of games that include the word somewhere. Lots of dystopian megacorp skyscrapers. But I can’t remember seeing a game that’s set in the liminal stage before, the time between the now and when the mass surveillance, holograms and AR implants take root.
Neo Cab is set in that time. It’s a story-heavy adventure where you play one of the last human gig drivers, in a San Francisco-inspired city in the near future called Los Ojos. In Los Ojos, most cars are driverless, advertising is personalised, and beautiful clean streets are awash in purple and blue light. It’s also clearly a complex, nightmarish time and place to live.