NeoRunners makes you read a valve wheel like a spreadsheet, and I mean that kindly
A cyberpunk deckbuilder where every relationship has a discount rate and every decision screen has a cost you can actually see.
By Priya Raman, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
NeoRunners wants you to look at a pipe and think about economics, and the screenshot of that decision screen explains more than most opening cutscenes manage. A figure stands at a valve wheel on a huge rusted pipe, the prompt above asks where scarce heat should go, and the three answers underneath are not flavour text. Warm the Homes gives you a random common card and respect with one faction, at the cost of a Heat Hazard next fight. Feed the Illegal Forge trades credits for a different faction's regard and a free mod. Turn It On Corpsec is the one worth reading twice: forty credits and fou...