Neon Struct Is The Best Cyberpunk Immersive Sim You've Never Played

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You've probably never heard of Neon Struct, which is fair enough. It's a small indie game by a relatively unknown solo developer, and it launched a day after The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Not exactly a recipe for a chart-conquering smash hit, but you really should consider playing this stylish, elegant, neon-lit stealth adventure—especially if you're a fan of the Deus Ex series.

Neon Struct: Die Augen der Welt, to give it its full name, wears its influences proudly on the sleeve of its cool leather trench coat. Its hero is Jillian Cleary—y'know, as in JC—and the first door code you encounter is 0451. On a deeper level, the game's systems-driven stealth, gadgets, hacking, and multi-path levels owe a lot to Ion Storm's masterpiece.

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Cleary is a government agent who has been framed for treason, and is now on the run from her former paymasters. This is a dark, pessimistic vision of a dystopian surveillance state so out of control that every person in America has been secretly implanted with a tracking chip. It's your job to expose this sinister plot, clear your name, and like any good cyberpunk, smash the system.

Neon Struct strips the immersive sim down to its purest essence. While JC Denton has access to silenced pistols, electric prods, and other high-tech weaponry, Cleary is limited to sneaking up on enemies and knocking them out—or just avoiding them altogether. It's a pacifist game at heart, which forces you to play carefully, quietly, and methodically at all times.

But what Cleary lacks in firepower, she makes up for with a collection of neat gadgets. They let you scramble cameras, turn briefly invisible, silence your footsteps, or