Cloudpunk

Cloudpunk PC is a story-driven cyberpunk adventure built around courier work in the vertical metropolis of Nivalis. The current Steam and GOG listings still use the original name, with no verified rebrand or replacement edition. You play as Rania, a new driver for the semi-legal Cloudpunk delivery service, moving through neon traffic, landing at scattered parking points, and meeting residents whose problems gradually connect into a larger conspiracy.

This is not a combat-heavy open-world RPG. Its appeal comes from hover-car exploration, voiced conversations, environmental discovery, and the routine of working a dangerous night shift in a city divided by wealth, altitude, and corporate power.

How the delivery loop works

The central loop is straightforward: accept a job, travel to the pickup point, carry the package or passenger across Nivalis, and reach the destination while managing your vehicle along the way. Deliveries introduce new characters and locations rather than functioning as disposable errands, so the work itself is the structure that moves the narrative forward.

Driving takes place in a fully vertical city filled with elevated roads, towers, advertising vehicles, suspended rail lines, and narrow spaces between buildings. Your HOVA can rise and descend through the urban layers, and collisions can damage the vehicle. Fuel and repairs add light simulation pressure, but Cloudpunk is primarily a narrative exploration game rather than a demanding driving simulator.

The vehicle supports both first-person cockpit view and third-person camera modes. The cockpit view emphasizes rain on the windshield and the scale of the surrounding traffic, while third person gives you a clearer view of the HOVA when navigating dense areas. On foot, Rania visits landing zones, investigates side paths, and reaches clients in locations that cannot be accessed directly by vehicle.

Cloudpunk does not revolve around conventional combat, weapon builds, or reflex-based enemy encounters. The meaningful decisions are usually conversational or situational, with consequences connected to the people and organizations Rania encounters during her work.

Nivalis, characters, and story systems

Nivalis is the game’s main attraction. The city stretches from the lower industrial areas of the Marrow to high corporate districts above the clouds, creating a strong sense of social and physical scale without relying on a traditional fantasy map or quest hub.

Exploration is supported by hidden places and items that unlock additional stories. Optional encounters can reveal more about androids, artificial intelligence, hackers, corporations, street gangs, and ordinary residents trying to survive under an unequal economic system.

Rania is accompanied by Camus, an AI presence that adds commentary and personality to the journey. The cast also includes detectives, executives, racers, androids, workers, and other residents whose perspectives give the city more texture than the delivery objectives alone would provide.

The narrative uses choice-driven conversations and decisions that can affect inhabitants of Nivalis. It is best approached as a character-focused adventure where the reward for exploring is context, dialogue, and atmosphere rather than rare loot or an expanding combat arsenal.

Base game and City of Ghosts content

The standard purchase contains the main Cloudpunk campaign. The storefront also lists Cloudpunk - City of Ghosts as separate paid downloadable content, alongside the original and expansion soundtracks.

City of Ghosts is a substantial continuation rather than a small cosmetic pack. It returns to Nivalis with new areas, new characters, and a fully voiced campaign that follows both Rania and the new character Hayse. The stories intersect while Rania faces pressure from the delivery corporation Curzona, debt collectors, an AI-worshipping secret society, and a dangerous cyborg.

The expansion adds street races and deeper HOVA customization, giving the vehicle a more active role than it has in the base campaign. It also includes multiple endings influenced by choices made across Cloudpunk and City of Ghosts.

For players who want the complete narrative package, Steam and GOG present an Ultimate bundle containing the base game, City of Ghosts, and both soundtrack releases. The base game and expansion remain distinct products, so City of Ghosts should not be assumed to be included with the standard edition.

Who should play Cloudpunk?

Cloudpunk suits players who want a slow-burn cyberpunk story, a distinctive city to cruise through, and a game that treats ordinary employment as the lens for exploring a futuristic society. It is especially appealing if you enjoy voiced character episodes, urban atmosphere, and discovering small stories between main objectives.

It is also a good fit for players who prefer low-pressure exploration over repeated failure states. The game gives you room to look around, follow optional encounters, and absorb the setting without demanding constant precision from the player.

Players seeking deep vehicle simulation, tactical combat, extensive character builds, or a dense economy should set expectations carefully. Cloudpunk has upgrades, fuel, repairs, and vehicle progression, but these systems support the story rather than turning the game into a full driving simulator or role-playing sandbox.

Its closest appeal is the combination of unusual setting and observational exploration. For a more traditional cyberpunk detective RPG with an isometric perspective and investigation-focused structure, cyberpunk detective adventures such as Gamedec provide a useful contrast.

PC features, controls, and storefront differences

On PC, Cloudpunk supports keyboard and mouse as well as controller input. The control scheme can be customized, and the camera can be adjusted while walking or driving. The first-person cockpit update also gives PC players a more immersive way to read the city from inside the HOVA.

Steam lists the game as single-player with Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. There is no co-op, competitive multiplayer, or split-screen mode. The game is designed as a solitary narrative journey through Nivalis.

Steam is the relevant launcher for the Steam edition. GOG lists Cloudpunk as DRM-free and states that Galaxy is optional, allowing the game to be installed and played through an offline installer. No separate anti-cheat system is presented on the current storefront listings, which matches the game’s single-player design.

Language support is broad for interface and subtitles. English includes full audio, while French, Italian, German, Spanish from Spain, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Hungarian, and Turkish are listed with interface and subtitle support. Players who need English voice acting should not assume that every supported text language also includes dubbed audio.

Comparable PC games

Cloudpunk is unusual because few games combine a cyberpunk city, courier work, and freeform hover-car travel in the same way. The best comparisons therefore depend on which part of the experience matters most to you.

For a cyberpunk world built around environmental exploration and a non-human companion, atmospheric third-person adventures like Stray share Cloudpunk’s emphasis on traversing a layered futuristic city, finding contextual details, and following a compact story rather than grinding through combat.

For a more confrontational and action-focused interpretation of cyberpunk, kinetic first-person cyberpunk games such as Severed Steel show the opposite design priority: speed, gunplay, parkour, and aggressive movement instead of Cloudpunk’s conversations and delivery routes.

Cloudpunk remains the better choice when the goal is to inhabit a working driver’s routine, watch the city pass through the windshield, and uncover stories by accepting one more job in Nivalis.

Cloudpunk FAQ

Is Cloudpunk still called Cloudpunk on PC?

Yes. The current Steam and GOG storefront listings use the title Cloudpunk. City of Ghosts is presented as a separate sequel-sized DLC and as part of an Ultimate bundle, not as a rebrand of the original game.

Is Cloudpunk an RPG or a driving simulator?

It is best described as a story-driven adventure with RPG tags and light driving-simulation elements. You deliver packages and passengers, explore Nivalis by HOVA and on foot, manage fuel and repairs, and make choices, but the game does not offer the combat depth or build complexity associated with a traditional RPG.

Does Cloudpunk have combat?

Combat is not the core activity. Cloudpunk focuses on deliveries, conversations, exploration, and occasional navigation challenges. Its tension comes mainly from the situations Rania enters and the decisions she makes.

Does Cloudpunk support multiplayer or co-op?

No. The PC versions are single-player only, with no listed co-op, split-screen, or competitive multiplayer mode.

What is included in City of Ghosts?

City of Ghosts adds a separate fully voiced campaign, new locations and characters, multiple playable perspectives including Hayse, street races, extensive HOVA customization, and choice-based endings connected to both campaigns.

Can Cloudpunk be played offline?

The GOG edition is listed as DRM-free and can be played without GOG Galaxy or a permanent internet connection. The Steam edition uses the Steam client and includes Steam-specific features such as achievements and cloud saves.