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CY_BORG
A Punky Take on A Punky Genre
Designer: Christian Sahlen | Publisher: Free League
If there’s any genre born to explore the bright, bloody aesthetic of Mork Borg and its cohort of doom-laden followers, it’s cyberpunk. Anyone hungry for proof of this need look no further than Cy_Borg’s ability to use its artsy progenitor as a jumping-off point for both slick visuals and solid gameplay.
In case the name didn’t make it quite obvious enough, Cy_Borg is a cyberpunk take on Mork Borg’s own stripped-down blend of oldschool dungeon crawling and punky sensibilities. Beyond the black-andneon colour palette, this lineage reveals itself in the game’s simple rules, brutal combat, and love of random tables - used to determine everything from a character’s backstory to the details of the crew’s next job.