The City of Newton, a decidedly cyberpunk, moody and dangerous place, has been created with the same building materials used by William Gibson to craft Chiba City and Ridley Scott to visualize his dystopian Los Angeles. It’s thus a wonderful, high-tech and quite desperate metropolis and also the perfect setting for soon to be released adventure game Technobabylon.



Now, as many adventure gamers might be aware of, Technobabylon did indeed start off as a series of small freeware point-and-clickers by Technocrat games — it was an excellent series too, though one that didn’t reach its completion before being picked up by Wadjet Eye Games and transformed into a big, polished and apparently brilliant adventure game.

Besides merely bringing the story to its conclusion, Technobabylon will come with all sorts of impressive improvements, the most obvious of which are the excellent pixel-art graphics by Ben Chandler. Graphics that help the game’s setting come alive and its atmosphere to properly sink in. Add layers upon layers of polish, a fresh soundtrack, full voice-over, all sorts of tweaks and improvements, wisely reworked puzzles, cut-scenes and hours of new stuff and you have the best Technobabylon possible; completed and shiny.



If, despite Cassandra’s classic IndieGames.com review, you never played through the freeware episodes and still do not know what to expect, well, expect a cyberpunk tale of mystery, murder, mindjackers, explosions, determined detectives, mega-corporations, crime-predicting AIs and girls addicted to Trance; Technobabylon’s futuristic take on the internet. While you are at it, do also expect some fine set pieces and a setting where the government creepily takes the time to email citizens with personalized health tips.

The gameplay bit of the game is equally intriguing and extremely well designed. You’ll get to interact with and look at a richly detailed setting, while solving some brilliant and taxing but fair puzzles. One of them actually involves entering the Trance and having a Knight-AI take on a Chef program via the cunning use of some pretty dangerous spam email attachment.

Exciting, isn’t it? You’ll be happy to know then that Technobabylon will be released on the 21th of this very May and that you can already pre-order your copy via the Wadjet Eye Games site (includes Steam key) and GOG. Pre-ordering will get you the game’s deluxe edition.