Neon Hope blends Android: Netrunner and the Arkham Horror LCG into an optimistic cyberpunk co-op card game

An upcoming card game looks to mix the cyberpunk strategy of tabletop all-timer Android: Netrunner with the cooperative narratives told in Arkham Horror: The Card Game, wrapped up in a more optimistic vision of the future. Neon Hope tasks up to four players - or just a single player in a solo mode - with averting the impending dystopia caused by behemothic technology companies. Rather than the hacker-versus-megacorp competition of Netrunner, here the players are on the same side, working together to steer the future towards a tech-filled utopia. The game’s creators at Hopeful Games outline its setting as mixing the anti-capitalist warnings of traditional cyberpunk with the positive vision of the solarpunk subgenre, which seeks to imagine a world where humankind can harness the environment in a sustainable way by utilising concepts such as renewable energy and living in harmony with nature. The game is set in a futuristic version of Berlin, offering a more European-flavoured sci-fi setting compared to the American lens of many classic cyberpunk games, which also have a spotty history with orientalist tropes. Read more