Cloudpunk Review – Cyberpunk Death Stranding

A review of Cloudpunk, a game where you deliver packages

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<div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;deals jeg&lowbar;deals&lowbar;float clearfix">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;dealsheader clearfix">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"dealstitle">&NewLine; <h3>Cloudpunk DEALS<&sol;h3>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;storeinfo">&NewLine; <ul class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;storelist">&NewLine; <li>&NewLine; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;746850&sol;Cloudpunk&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" class&equals;"storename">Steam<&sol;a>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"priceinfo">&NewLine; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;746850&sol;Cloudpunk&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" class&equals;"price">&dollar;14&period;99<&sol;a>&NewLine; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;746850&sol;Cloudpunk&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" class&equals;"productlink">VIEW<&sol;a>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <&sol;li>&NewLine; <&sol;ul>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <&sol;div><p>Today&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re taking a look at Cloudpunk&period; A game that was suggested to me cause of my above-average interest in cyberpunk&period; While Cloudpunk definitely fits with the tropes of the cyberpunk genre&comma; I feel it&&num;8217&semi;s also unique in a lot of ways&period; With the genre&comma; there are certain expectations of what a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;top-10-games-to-play-before-cyberpunk-2077&sol;">cyberpunk game<&sol;a> will be like&period; You typically imagine something like Deus Ex&comma; or <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;cyberpunk-2077-delayed-again-releasing-in-november&sol;">Cyberpunk 2077<&sol;a>&period; Something with a lot of augmentations&comma; special powers&comma; and weapons&period; Shooters typically&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; Cloudpunk isn&&num;8217&semi;t really a shooter&period; In fact&comma; it has more in common with the recently released <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;death-stranding-review-american-trek-simulator&sol;">Death Stranding<&sol;a> than Cyberpunk 2077&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re not really doing any combat at all&period; Instead&comma; you spend your time driving from place to place&comma; delivering packages&comma; and investigating an emergent plot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07124547&sol;20200624201706&lowbar;1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-160439" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07124547&sol;20200624201706&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Driving" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Another Day On The Job<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Cloudpunk&&num;8217&semi;s story starts out very simply&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re Raina&comma; and you&&num;8217&semi;re about to have your first day on your new job&period; Having just moved to the big city&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ve taken work as a driver for a company called Cloudpunk&period; Raina isn&&num;8217&semi;t really much of a big city girl&period; She&&num;8217&semi;s from the countryside&comma; having grown up on a farm&period; She likes music&comma; but hates corporate culture and city life&period; She is very aware of where her heart lies&period; And it tends to put her at odds with the characters she encounters in her new environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A lot of people she meets thinks of her as a bit naive&period; A bit unaware of how things work in the city&period; But Raina knows that her perspective might help her see things that other people won&&num;8217&semi;t&period; And she quickly picks up on a larger plot happening when people around her start acting strange&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On your adventures&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re aided by your AI companion Camus&comma; who has the literal personality of a dog&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re also helped by Control&comma; your contact at Cloudpunk&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re tasked with picking up packages and delivering them while asking as few questions as possible&period; Of course&comma; Raina isn&&num;8217&semi;t too good at keeping her nose out of things&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07130202&sol;20200706220818&lowbar;1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-160440" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07130202&sol;20200706220818&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Conversation" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Cyberpunk Delivery Service<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Cloudpunk is an open-world exploration game&comma; where you spend most of your time going to different points of the game world&period; You can also freely explore if you want to&comma; which is often encouraged as talking to people can give you sidequests to do&period; But for the most part you go around completing mission objectives&period; The actual driving feels very nice&period; Since you&&num;8217&semi;re flying around in the air&comma; the controls are a bit floaty compared to how driving on the ground would feel&period; But on PC you can control your car using the mouse&comma; which gives plenty of control over the vehicle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can upgrade your car at mechanic stops as well&period; Upgrades can be increasing your speed or changing your trail color&period; The upgrades don&&num;8217&semi;t really add much to the gameplay&comma; but makes traversing the city less time consuming and easier&period; You also need to refuel&comma; so keeping an eye on the fuel gauge is a good idea&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The city is divided into multiple zones and districts&period; Since everything is above the clouds&comma; you can&&num;8217&semi;t really go between places on foot&comma; unless they are connected via catwalks&period; So you have to drive between buildings in order to get places&period; One mechanic that I felt was a bit unnecessary is the fact you can only park your vehicle in parking lots&period; It would be nice to have the option to park anywhere&comma; but I suppose Rania prefers putting her car where it makes sense&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07150853&sol;20200625190857&lowbar;1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-160441" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07150853&sol;20200625190857&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Rania" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Big City Life<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Cloudpunk&&num;8217&semi;s world is pretty large&comma; and there is plenty to do&period; You can buy stuff from vendors&comma; ranging from food to drugs and various upgrades&period; You can also collect stuff in the game world&comma; be it quest items or salvage items you can use to repair broken machinery or just sell&period; The game feels very alive&comma; with plenty of people walking around and a lot of people you can talk to&period; It seems everyone has something to talk about&comma; and a lot of people are willing to ask for help from you&period; So you do a lot more than just missions for your boss&comma; as a lot of the game can be spent just exploring the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I felt the controls were pretty intuitive and simple&period; I also love the addition of a first-person camera to the game&comma; since it increases immersion for me&period; Though I do wish some of the lifts in the game had buttons to call them&period; And the addition of a sprint button would be nice as the default run speed can be a bit slow at times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I also had a bug where the dialogue would freeze and I had to restart the game to get dialogue playing normally again&period; Though that may have already been fixed&period; Overall the game plays pretty well and has a pretty relaxing feel to it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07154102&sol;20200706220723&lowbar;1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-160442" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07154102&sol;20200706220723&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sinwave" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Voxels And Neon<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Cloudpunk&&num;8217&semi;s graphics consist almost entirely of voxels&period; Voxels are essentially 3D pixels&comma; which gives the game a very blocky look&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s an aesthetic that feels retro but in a modern sense&period; The game is far from the first to use voxels&comma; but it does help give it its own unique style&period; Even the people are made from voxels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That being said&comma; despite using voxels&comma; the game looks gorgeous visually&period; Soaked in intense neon colors and eternal rain&comma; the game intentionally brings associations to<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;blade-runner-revelations-announced-for-vr&sol;"> Blade Runner<&sol;a>&period; Which is understandable given the obvious influence on the game&period; In fact&comma; it can be argued Cloudpunk is essentially a game where you explore a Blade Runner city above the clouds&period; And it&&num;8217&semi;s done really well from a visual standpoint&period; You are always surrounded by a jungle of concrete and metal on all sides&period; And despite how dystopian the game looks&comma; it has an inviting warmth to it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07155302&sol;20200624213316&lowbar;1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-160446" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07155302&sol;20200624213316&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Cloudpunk City" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Sinwave<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The soundtrack is equally awesome and fitting the atmosphere of the game&period; Tracks range from mellow synth pieces to full-on synthwave with some pretty good beats and bass to it&period; If you like synthwave&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll feel right at home here&period; And given how the genre has become synonymous with 80s cyberpunk&comma; it feels like a natural fit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I also think the voice acting is really good for an indie title&period; Given how much dialogue is in the game&comma; I was surprised that all of it is voice acted&period; I can&&num;8217&semi;t imagine how much effort was put into recording all the dialogue&comma; but it sounds great&period; The voice actors all did a great job&period;  Usually&comma; in games like these&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s a pretty heavy reliance on text to deliver the story&period; So it&&num;8217&semi;s refreshing to have an indie title with this level of polish to it&period; I also think the overall soundscape of the game is perfect&comma; with heavily synthesized voices surrounding you as you explore the city&period; And the futuristic sound of flying cars going past you as you drive through the lanes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07160001&sol;20200624200401&lowbar;1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-160447" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;07160001&sol;20200624200401&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Walkway" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">A Unique Experience<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>All in all&comma; I find it very hard not to recommend Cloudpunk&period; Especially if you&&num;8217&semi;re into cyberpunk&period; The game might not have much to offer in terms of action&comma; but it does offer a pretty interesting story and plenty of exploration&period; And the world the game creates feels alive and breathing and beckoning for you to explore it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>My only major complaint about the game really is the lack of a manual save system&period; But that&&num;8217&semi;s a personal preference as the autosave seems to work fine&period; I just tend to never feel comfortable without a manual save&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I feel it has way more to offer beyond a distinct visual style&period; So if you&&num;8217&semi;re looking for something to hold you over until Cyberpunk 2077 arrives&comma; then you should definitely consider checking out Cloudpunk&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s available on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;746850&sol;Cloudpunk&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">PC<&sol;a>&comma; PS4&comma; Xbox One&comma; and Nintendo Switch&period; So&comma; however you choose to grab it&comma; definitely consider it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What do you think about Cloudpunk&quest; Let us know in the comments&excl; And if you want to check out another interesting cyberpunk game&comma; definitely check out the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;trese-brothers-interview-cyber-knights-flashpoint-and-star-traders&sol;">Cyber Knights Kickstarter campaign<&sol;a>&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;review&lowbar;wrap">&NewLine; <h3 class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;review&lowbar;subtitle">The Review<&sol;h3>&NewLine; <h2 class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;review&lowbar;title">&NewLine; Cloudpunk&NewLine; <&sol;h2>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"jeg&lowbar;reviewheader clearfix">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"review&lowbar;score score&lowbar;good">&NewLine; <span class&equals;"score&lowbar;value">8&period;5<&sol;span>&NewLine; <span class&equals;"score&lowbar;text">Score<&sol;span>&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"desc" style&equals;''>&NewLine; <p>A gorgeous indie game with a heavy cyberpunk atmosphere that puts more focus on its characters and story over intense action&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; 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