cyberpunkdreams

cyberpunkdreams

Released May 2021

2090s America, torn apart by war and corporate greed. A lone traveller stands outside the gates of Cincinnati, greatest of the border cities. How far will you go to make it to the top? How far will you go to fulfil your mission?

78% positive · 1,349 reviews
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Released, ongoing live service game
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Live Service
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Released, ongoing live service game
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Live Service

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

cyberpunkdreams is a free-to-play, text-based game designed from the ground up as an ever-expanding living world. The developer has been building it since 2013 and launched it on Steam on May 14, 2021. The store description explicitly promises new stories and content "each and every month," regular limited-time events, and states the game "will be updated with new content for years to come" with "no plans for slowing down." The developer's track record fully supports this. The most significant recent release was Chapter Two of the main mission on March 26, 2026 — a major update years in the making, adding new story chapters, mechanics, characters, locations, and items. An April 8, 2026 post immediately outlined what comes next: a hacking update, morgue and body-handling content, and further character story work. Feature patches have shipped consistently since then: June 11, June 30, July 24, and August 19, 2026 — meaning the developer pushed an update just eight days before today's date. On May 13, 2026, the developer marked the game's fifth anniversary on Steam with an unambiguous commitment: "things have still not slowed down at all" and "we'll be here for another five [years], and another five after that." The monetization model reinforces the live service design: credit packs are sold as DLC (with a new set added in December 2024), alongside paid story and soundtrack DLC. The action point system is explicitly described in the store page as the mechanism that enables the team to keep creating content monthly while maintaining the free-to-play model. This game is designed to never be "done" — it is an actively and rapidly evolving experience with a developer fully committed to its indefinite future.
Evidence
Feature patch shipped on August 19, 2026, eight days before today's date, adding new mechanics, artwork, and bug fixes — confirming ongoing active development.
news post · Aug 19, 2026 source development ongoing
high
Fifth anniversary post explicitly states "things have still not slowed down at all" and commits to continued development "for another five [years], and another five after that."
news post · May 13, 2026 source development ongoing
high

Content

16 of 16 released · no outstanding content
Released
Apr 2025

Media

Details

Publisher
Late Night Games
Achievements
92
Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

The city is spread before you, horizon to horizon, a vast sore squatting on the world. 24 million people, most of it lawless slum and favela. The last outpost of civilisation on the edge of the badlands. One of the most relevant, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Is it any wonder you ended up here?

cyberpunkdreams is an evolving text-based life-sim with countless opportunities and endless chances for creation and destruction. Take on the role of a lone wanderer sent to the gates of 2090s Cincinnati. The dirt and grit from the badlands coats your clothes -- with your memories torn from you, all you have is a weapon across your back and a mission to complete.

Enter a living, growing world, with over 3.1 million words of content and over 3,000 unique pieces of hand-drawn artwork, Experience new stories and other content each and every month, plus regular limited time events. You’ll always find new surprises waiting for you in Cinci's dark and dirty alleys.

Who will you become in this cesspool of a city? Will you play the games and climb to the top, or be forgotten amongst the march of time and tyranny?

Every action counts

cyberpunkdreams is designed to be played in short bursts over the long term. You have a limited number of Action Points to use every real life day, and any number of ways you can use them. Draw from your decks and risk reward or injury. Stick to safer places to rest, recuperate and work on your skills, or work with your inventory to prepare for the next hustle. Events can unfold over days, weeks or even months. You can also store Action Points for later use, using breathers, hit the binge button for extended play sessions and discover new ways to hack and manipulate the system.

The Action Point system establishes pacing in an brutal setting where any mistake could cost your life, as well as enabling the development team to keep creating stories every month, maintaining the game as free-to-play and always giving you more to discover. cyberpunkdreams has been in continuous development since 2013, with no plans for slowing down.

So ease yourself in for one long, wild ride. cyberpunkdreams is a living game that will be updated with new content for years to come.

Uncompromising cyberpunk narrative

Enter a future grounded in reality: a world distorted by corporations and dominated by poverty. This is down to the bone cyberpunk, as raw as it gets: violent, gritty and sexual... if you want it to be. Experience a world just a turn of a corner away from our own. Be ready for hard, bitter choices. Be ready to carve out your niche with whatever it takes, be it blood, love and everything in between.

Learn who you are through your actions & choices

Your abilities are intrinsically tied to your successes and failures. There are a multitude of ways to solve each problem you’ll encounter – what you choose impacts not only your chances of making it out alive, but also how your character grows and experiences the world.

Who needs romance when you have hard banging?

cyberpunkdreams offers everything from long term partnerships to dirty alleyway hook-ups. Experience the sleaze of slums sex work, the buzz of Interstate or the dark pleasures of the Projects. Be in charge or be under someone's heel. The choices are endless – including to opt out completely, if that's your preference.

Probably the most gender-friendly game of all time

What would cyberpunk be without the ability to transform your body to match who you really are? To be who you really are? cyberpunkdreams features many ways to modify your physical form, as well as an incredibly detailed gender system. You've got you physical sex, then your true gender, including a wide range of choices such as demigender or flexible, then what you're currently presenting as, then what you're most commonly known as in each location in the game, all of which can evolve over time. And all these choices matter. The  people around you will react to you differently depending on who you are.

Choices have consequences, and the city remembers

Your choices aren’t detached from the lives of the people around you. Richly detailed NPCs will evolve on their own, remember and react to the alliances you create, the mercy you give and the morals you stand by. If you’re looking for a true lesson of consequence, you’ve come to the right city. Be ready for people who don't care about you, or care about you too much. People who will revel in your choices, or hate them.

Embrace yourself, flaws and all

cyberpunkdreams offers highly customisable character creation that continues throughout your entire time in Cincinnati. Become who you want to be. Occupy your skin in any way you choose. Gender, sexuality, cybernetics, mutations, clothing and equipment all combine to create a fluid system with any number of possibilities. Choose not just what you do but why you do it. Respond to the things that happen to you with glee or bitter remorse, and choose which of these inner feelings to share with the NPCs who are close to you.

Screen reader compatibility

cyberpunkdreams is an illustrated text-based game, and as such fully screen reader compatible. There is an active community of screen reader users on our Discord.

Last evaluated Aug 27, 2026
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