UNSIGHTED is the Cyberpunk Game I’ve Been Looking For

Falling in love with Studio Pixel Punk’s robot apocalypse

Brandon R. Chinn
SUPERJUMP
Published in
7 min readOct 23, 2021

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The end of the world often encourages a division of perspective. We are used to dystopia. We are used to shopping malls full of zombies and suspicious survivors and lonely treks across the globe. Our modern dystopia is both dull and aggravating, one seeded by a bodily virus as well as a virus of misinformation. When we hear the word dystopia, we think of paths worn muddy, forays into fictional worlds lacking a life beyond capitalism, beyond humans.

Utopias — both their necessity and defense — are more difficult to imagine.

A well-constructed utopia requires the mind of an unassailable futurist — it is a place built of comradery and support, where the survivors spend more time planting seeds than building bunkers. Utopias, whether they contain many humans or none at all, are achievable only by the interlinked grace of those who wish to fight for their future, even if it isn’t the future they imagined.

In Studio Pixel Punk’s indie masterpiece UNSIGHTED, we are fighting for one such utopia. It’s an elysian hub built of glass, one that might shatter under a glare, its denizens facing their final days by an unfair clock that’s bleeding them of physical time. This world, immediately, is…

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Brandon R. Chinn
SUPERJUMP

Author of the Kognition Cycle. Works featured in Hawk & Cleaver, Twist in Time, Selene Quarterly. For inquiries contact brandonrchinn@gmail.com.