A solo RPG is a roleplaying game designed to be played by one person. Instead of dividing the experience between a group of players and a Game Master, the game uses rules and procedures to create uncertainty, discovery, and consequences for a single player. Those systems can take many forms. Dice, cards, random tables, prompts, …
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Isolation in cosmic horror is not always physical. Sometimes characters are surrounded by people and still separated from the knowledge, context, and explanations they need.
Cosmic horror is more than tentacles and ancient gods. It explores the limits of human knowledge, perception, control, and what happens when reality extends beyond our ability to understand it.
Cyberpunk does not give us a clean division between good and evil. It gives us systems, incentives, technology, and compromised people, then watches what happens.
Cyberpunk did not lose its edge. Its ideas became influential enough to split into subgenres, including post-cyberpunk and solarpunk, that answer its questions differently.
Hope is not optimism, and dystopia is not hopelessness. Cyberpunk and speculative fiction reveal how participation, agency, and local action turn imagined futures into something more useful.
Cyberpunk was never about a lone hero defeating the machine. It predicted a future where agency became distributed across corporations, networks, algorithms, and fragmented identities, making the system itself the true protagonist.
(This is the fifth article in our What is Cyberpunk? series, in which we’re examining the various perspectives and arguments that influence the definition of the Cyberpunk genre. If you’d like to start with the first article, click here.) For years, people have argued over whether cyberpunk is optimistic or pessimistic. It isn’t. And that …
Cyberpunk has a branding problem. We think it is about rebellion against corporations. But resistance is what cyberpunk characters do. Entrapment is what cyberpunk is about.
(This is the third article in our What is Cyberpunk? series, in which we’re examining the various perspectives and arguments that influence the definition of the Cyberpunk genre. If you’d like to start with the first article, click here.) Every few years, someone declares that cyberpunk has lost its edge. It’s all neon. It’s just …
