Terminus Machina & Neofeud

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Fans of the first Deus Ex may be interested in this mod called Terminus Machina, especially if you enjoyed mods such as The Nameless Mod.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/terminus-machina

Imagine Deus Ex and Fallout had a baby, then cranked player agency and dystopia to 11, and then had a thermonuclear feature-explosion. Everything from facial-biometric scan to wireless net hacking to drone strikes & spoofs to DNA-modification and a massive crafting system?

And then there's the fact that it's free.

"The best Deus Ex mod that there ever has been and will ever be. Innovative and fun once you get the hang of it. -- Fastgamerr - Creator of Deus Ex Nihilum

"The conspiracy is updated with the latest and cranked up to eleven. You will find the bleakest extrapolation of the burst of the housing bubble and the bailout that followed, private prison industry, patent and copyright wars, Monsanto controlling our food chain, consolidation of powers in the three letter agencies, rise of hacktivist groups like Anonymous, using drones to minimize deaths of own soldiers, wars against a "principle" (terror, drugs) and the worrying blending of the state and too-big-to-fail corporations." -- Revisor007


And by the same developer they have made an Indie cyberpunk game called Neofeud that also seems pretty cool, as a point and click adventure game.


http://www.indiedb.com/games/neofeud
Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals. The art, writing, programming, music, and audio are made by one person, Christian Miller, also known as Silver Spook, with the exception of 50% of the voice acting.

Synopsis:

2033 - We create AI. Sentient robots arrive, but not as our Terminator overlords or our Singularity saviors -- conscious machines are humanity's unwanted ******* children. A few are geniuses who design flying cars, beat cancer, invent teleportation, but millions of defective prototypes roll out of factories -- mentally challenged, motivationally-challenged, criminally-inclined. Legally conscious, but unhirable, these "Defectives" are shuffled through public housing and welfare assistance, straining the already overburdened back of the meager social safety net. The robots who don't end up in prison are dumped, as a last resort, into a massive landfill known as "The Pile".

Humans engage in perfection of their species -- or at least the powerful and well-connected -- genetically engineering children with human and animal DNA. The failed eugenics experiment "Frankenpeople" are discarded into "The Pile" as well. The new dynasties, 'Neofeudal Lords', live in towering neon glass castles, shuttle around in pristine nanotech-enabled pods, minds and bodies full of cyberware, spending most of their time taking selfies and "optimizing their monetization schemes". A race of supermen concerned only with their own status, their prestige, their success. Where machines have become all too flawed and human, people have become flawless, perfect, cold machines.

Karl Carbon is an ex-cop, dishonorably discharged from Coastlandia PD for disobeying an order to shoot an unarmed sentient humanoid. Karl is exiled to "The Pile" as a lowly social worker. There he counsels gangbanging foster-kid robots and confiscates chimera-children from deadbeat half-wolf parents. Till one day a case goes horribly sideways and Karl is drawn into a sordid conspiracy that could threaten the strained fabric of Human-Robot-Hybrid civilization -- or save it.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/


If you are into Cyberpunk stuff like me and like Deus Ex you might like both these games, especially if you can look past the graphics.
 
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