PC (Microsoft Windows)2025

Null State

Null State is a moddable CRPG built on classic gameplay styles and themes found in cyberpunk games from the late 80s and early 90s. Inspired by classic cyberpunk stories (& other, older tales of downtrodden folk heroes), you will be tasked with helping the people in your community until you discover that your world is barely holding together — and about to be pushed over the brink.

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Steam User 3388STEAMRecommended

Once upon a time, all of the world's technologies failed all at once, in an event that came to be known as Obsidian Wednesday. In the aftermath, life became ugly, brutish, and short for all but the richest and most powerful. The world is now run by the 'verts', mega-corps whose influence and control seem insurmountable. You are a wannabe-hacker dredge coming from the ruins of California, armed with a computer and ready to stir things up. Null State is a game about building community and trust in a world that has little of both, and your key to success lies in your hacking skills. Hacking, in this game, is a sort of dungeon crawler hybrid where you infiltrate networks and fight off ICs looking to impede your progress. You fight using a command deck with some starter weapons based on your chosen character background, and your weapons are a series of block shapes that can be arranged for optimal storage, similar to a inventory storage system in other games. There's no need to pick any specific background over the other, as the enemies you face will be made of blocks themselves and are defeated by bricking all available blocks on the enemy using your selected attack patterns. However, the battle phases work off of a turn/based system and bigger attacks means more time for ICs to directly assault your rig and potentially shoot your weapons into uselessness. You can evade combat altogether but this raises an alarm system that most missions require you to keep under a certain threshold for a victory condition. Over time, you start running into more varied enemies and some that even start off invisible and have to be either shot at or attacked with a specific weapon to remove the cloak. This all sounds very complex but the skill ceiling for winning battles is relatively low - as long as you're cautious and think about what you're doing, you'll generally have a strategy for most enemies you encounter and which have to take priority in 2v1 encounters. Four distinct writers at the helm - Peter Drummond, Pip Simms, Dean Hoff, and Maitreyi Viswanathan - art by Heloisa Panuci and Robin Field, and sound design by Billy Hobson make this a real treat!

Sep 8, 2025·8h·1·Verified

Steam User 1084STEAMRecommended

My budget is really thin right now but I went out of my way to buy this because it's absolutely criminal that this game only has one total review. I found the demo for this game in the most recent Next Fest and it very quickly became one of my most anticipated titles. Stylish as hell game with a genuinely unique turn-based combat system. Excited to play more. Please give it a try if you're able.

May 2, 2025·2h·3·Verified

Steam User 7866STEAMRecommended

Best kind of grimy, pulpy fiction wrapped in a hacker sim UI. Game play is fairly smooth and the world building is great.

Apr 24, 2025·1h·5·Verified