List of Cyberpunk Media
A while back I was involved in a forum for the Cyberpunk genre. One of the best threads we had there was a big list of Cyberpunk media. It was supposed to be for things that weren't completely obvious but then people mentioned blade runner and it sort of just became a plain old list. I think it's a useful list, so I'm putting it up here. Thanks to all the people who helped me build it.
Also since this is not only my own recommendations, I haven't actually seen/read/played everything here. I'll mark my recommendations in grey. A few things here probably shouldn't be, I will be removing them as I confirm that they don't fit the genre. Speaking of which, a lot of entries here are not *strictly* cyberpunk. It's a genre sitting on the blurred hazy line between the real-world and the rest of scifi, and to reduce it to a specific checklist could lead to this list being full of all the derivative works and nothing original.
Games
These certainly got a boost when the Cyberpunk 2077 hype train was in full swing. Sadly, I don't think much of the newer games, they're all a bit unoriginal.
- The Red Strings Club
- Remember Me
- Observer
- State of Mind
- VA-11 Hall-A (I couldn't get into this)
- 7th Sector
- Katana ZERO
- Protocol
- The Last Night
- RUINER
- Transistor
- Deus Ex (series)
- Cloudpunk
- 2084
- Cyberpunk 2077 (duh)
- 纪元：变异
- Hard Reset
- Ghost in the Shell (ps1)
- Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
- Perfect Dark
- Distance
- Nitronic Rush
- Neon Chrome
- Jydge
- Burncycle
- GhostRunner
- Contra: Hard Corps
- F.E.A.R. (series)
- SOMA
- Terminator: Resistance
- Glitchpunk
- Control
- Turbo Overkill
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
- Armoured Core (series)
- Duke Nukem (Sorta)
- Freedom Wars
- Spy Fiction
- System Shock 1/2/Remake
- Robocop: Rogue City
- Severed Steel
- Virtuaverse
Movies
Probably the weakest section here.
- Blade Runner
- The Matrix
- Ready Player One
- Total Recall
- eXistenZ
- A Scanner Darkly
- Dredd
- Robocop (all of them, even the remake)
- Upgrade
- THX 1138
- Videodrome
- Twelve Monkeys
- Nirvana
- Eyeborgs
- Meatball Machine
- Hardware
- Virus
- Terminator 1/2 (3 and Salvation are watchable if you absolutely must have more. The others are typical post-2000 crap)
- Hardcore Henry
- Tetsuo (series)
- In Time
- I, Robot
- Ex Machina
Books
I haven't read (m)any of these.
- Virtual Light, William Gibson
- Seveneves
- Cryptonomicon
- The Windup Girl
- Snow Crash
- The Casual Angel
- Neuromancer
- Woken Furies
- Broken Angels
- Woken Furies
- Simulacron-3
- The Quantum Thief
- Rainbow's End
- Idoru
- Altered Carbon
- Burning Chrome
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
- 人生算法
- Night Sky Mine, Mellisa Scott
- The Glass Hammer, Kevin Wayne Jeter
- Vurt, Jeff Noon
- Spares, Mitchel Marshall
- Hardwired, Walter Jon William
- I have no mouth and I must scream, Harlan Ellison
Anime
My favourite section! Be warned, some of these might be very nasty, I haven't seen all of them.
- Junk: Record of the Last Hero
- 20th Century Boys
- GUNNM
- Project ARMS
- Knights of Sidonia
- Apple Seed
- Blue Gender
- Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01
- Bio Hunter
- Angel Cop
- Midnight Eye Goku
- Memories
- Neo Tokyo
- Roujin Z
- M.D. Geist
- Steins;gate
- Baô raihôsha
- Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
- A.D. Police Files
- Psycho Pass
- Parasite Dolls
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Akira
- Armitage III
- Ghost in the Shell (everything older than Arise)
- Patlabor
- Dominion
- Cybercity OEDO 808
- Bubblegum Crisis
- Burn-Up W
- Black Magic M-66
Music
Obviously I can't list every cyberpunk themed album out there - this is a selection of the best I've found, including some that would just make a cool cyberpunk soundtrack. It's mostly/entirely synthwave.
- Drkzn3 - Selected Works Vol.1
- ALEX - Blood City
- BLACK CHALLENGER - Vigilance / Radiance
- DEADLIFE - Singularity / Bionic Chrysalis / Orphan / The Order of Chaos
- Dan Terminus - Last Call For All Passengers / The Wrath of Code
- Ed Harrison - Neotokyo NSF
- Hubrid - The Darksynth
- Mega Drive (everything)
- Perturbator (everything up to and inc. New Model)
- Maniac - 2121
- Starfounder - Tribute / Visuals
- Trevor Something - Deep Wave Data Dark Web Daemons
- STRNGR - Human Error (A)/(B)
- White Gavri'el - Vista of Chaos
- woob - Tokyo Run
- ALEX & Tokyo Rose - Akuma II (& Remixes)
- Meganeko - Nanscens / Technokinesis
- Power Glove (pretty much everything)
- Cryocon - Neuro
- Holon - Disruptive Technology
- Falcon 106
- ACCXess - komplexity
- ARGAMA