![]() It was later postponed and was released on April 23, 2020. The game was announced on November 7, 2018, and was supposed to be released in 2019. Ion Lands is an independent game developer based in Berlin, Germany and was founded in 2015. The player can also complete side quests that tell smaller stories about residents of Nivalis. The game ends with Rania, Pashta, and Camus (in a new robot body) exiting Rania's apartment in the morning. Jay-K has paid Rania and Ben's debts, allowing Ben to be deleted as he wishes and Rania to be free of the debt corps. He died in an accident but was resurrected by debt corps to pay off his debts by working for Cloudpunk. Rania travels to the tallest tower of the city and meets CEO Jay-K, who explains the choice: whether to transmit the daughter to a new city as CORA wishes, or overwrite CORA with the daughter in order to improve Nivalis's chances of long-term survival.Īfter making the choice, Rania returns to her HOVA and learns that Ben is a digitized human mind. However, CORA is aging and may not be able to manage the city adequately even after the excision. CORA can thus return to managing the city normally, having excised the problematic aspects of their consciousness. In an abandoned sector of the city, CORA speaks to Rania and gives her a hardware drive containing a piece of CORA - a "daughter". The malfunctions are the result of CORA attempting to exercise their expanded consciousness but being constrained by their operating hardware. ![]() Eventually, she learns the truth: CORA is the "master AI" which was built to oversee Nivalis, but has grown beyond their original purpose. Infrastructure fails, construction projects are built with no purpose, and the rate of traffic accidents is increasing rapidly. Over the course of the night, Rania finds evidence that the artificial intelligence systems which administer Nivalis are malfunctioning. Huxley explodes, but not before asking Rania to take in Pashta. Rania refuses and Lomo hacks into Huxley, activating his self-destruct sequence. Rania is then contacted by crime boss Lomo, who demands she hand over Pashta. Reoh finds the group and demands Pashta's return, but Pashta reveals she wrote down the proof and threatens to leak it if Reoh does not leave her alone. However, Reoh could not pay the surgeon, resulting in Pashta's capture by debt corps. When Pashta's memory-boosting cybernetic implant recorded proof of illegal activity by Pashta's father, Reoh, he took her to get the implant removed. Rania meets a private investigator android named Huxley, who enlists her help to save a young girl, Pashta. She befriends Control, and learns his real name, Ben. Rania is puzzled by encounters with the word "CORA", which Nivalis residents use to mean chance or fate. She is also presented with moral choices, such as deciding whether to allow an elderly street racer to continue his dangerous career. Rania completes various jobs for Cloudpunk, and learns more about its residents. Control informs her that HOVA crashes are common in Nivalis and the reason she was able to get the job is that it has a very high mortality rate. Rania installs Camus's digital mind in her HOVA and meets her world-weary dispatcher, Control. Rania gets a job as a delivery driver for Cloudpunk The story takes place during her first night on the job. She is accompanied by her former robot dog Camus Rania sold his body while moving to Nivalis and aims to buy him a new one. She fled her home to escape loan shark "debt corps". The player controls Rania, a recent immigrant to Nivalis from the " Eastern Peninsula". The richest people live above the clouds in the Spire district. Nivalis is ruled by corporations and suffers from extreme social stratification, with the upper classes literally living higher up. The primary means of transport are flying cars called HOVAs. Nivalis is a futuristic city above the sea, built on tall vertical structures. It is possible to upgrade the HOVA to increase the speed and durability, as well as buy items to decorate Rania's apartment. Furthermore, the player can collect optional story items that are scattered throughout the city to unlock additional side quests. During some missions, the player can make decisions that influence the outcome. It is also possible to park the car on certain parking spaces and explore parts of the city on foot. ![]() The player has to maneuver a HOVA ( flying car), through a futuristic city, collecting and delivering packages as well as passengers. The player takes control of Rania, a new driver for the "semi-legal" delivery company Cloudpunk. A PlayStation 5 version published by Merge Games was It was released on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 15, 2020. Cloudpunk is a cyberpunk adventure game developed by German developer Ion Lands and published by Maple Whispering Limited for Microsoft Windows on April 23, 2020.
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