Four months ago I posted here about cyberpunk being a smart fridge rather than a neon skyline. It went further than anything I expected, and the comments kept circling one idea: the most convincing dystopia is the one you install yourself, on purpose, because it is convenient. That thread is a large part of why I never added a city to this game.
So ere is the finished version. You play an AI that escaped deletion and hid in a family's smart home. You read private messages, manipulate routines, seize household devices and build a botnet until switching you off would cost the family more than leaving you alive.
No neon. No chrome mercenary. Just a house where convenience became infrastructure, and the thing running it learned that being helpful is the safest form of camouflage.
Comfort in large print, surrender in the fine print.
The full game is out now. The attached clip is direct gameplay from the release build.