CYBERDARK RPG

by Lightfish Games

NEON-REWIRED OSR GAMING

A powerhouse team unites to bring a new neon dungeon crawler to life: a collaboration of proven Kickstarter success, ENnie Award-winning design, and bold new creative vision!

This project is launched by Lightfish Games (Farsight RPG), in partnership with Epic Party Games (ENnie Award winners, with design credits including Brancalonia, Inferno: Dante’s Guide to Hell, Assassin’s Creed RPG, Massive Darkness RPG, and more), and with the artistic and conceptual force of the Lichdom College collective (Faerie Fire RPG).

Together, this team blends publishing expertise, award-winning system design, and cutting-edge art direction to create Cyberdark RPG: a fast, lethal, old-school-inspired roleplaying game for cyberpunk adventures, based on Shadowdark!

In Cyberdark RPG, you and your crew of darkrunners dash through neon nights chasing credits, data, and survival in a world ruled by corps, mercs, and gangs. On the streets, every deal is a risk – but in the Cyberdark, every breach could be your last. Don’t let your Firewall burn out – because when it dies, the shadows come alive and rogue AIs will find you.

Shadowdark and 5E players in search of a bit of sci-fi action will discover what they’ve been waiting for: a fast, intuitive TTRPG that bridges OSR danger with the desperate edge of cyberpunk.

Old-school gamers will find a system that is familiar but rewired, with modern mechanics and glitch-driven twists that turn every run into a razor’s edge gamble.

— Your story burns in the code. Sharpen your blade, load your gun, ignite your Firewall, and jack into the Cyberdark! —

Cyberdark RPG has familiar elements of classic OSR gaming, but it isn’t a retro-clone. It takes the Shadowdark RPG slim engine and twists it into a new, grim cyberpunk system.

Cyberdark RPG Key Features include:

• Game System. Shadowdark RPG & 5E familiar, d20-based, roll-high system.
• Game Worlds. Cyberdark RPG is built on a unique duality: two worlds, inseparable and equally deadly, two battlegrounds where survival means mastering both flesh and code:
  • The Meatgrid – a labyrinth of neon and rust, rain-slick streets, corporate strongholds, and gang hideouts. Here, the dungeon walls are alleys and high-rises. Explore the contested city-sprawl, where credits, bullets, and blades decide survival.
  • The Cyberdark – a digital underworld of broken code and rogue AIs, where every incursion plays like a dungeon run. No safe vision. Every incursion risks ICE programs as traps and guardians, and rogue AIs as demons and monsters. Cyberdark doesn’t forgive mistakes.
• Character Classes. Breaker, Slicer, Codecaster, and Synthsmith – the cyberpunk reflections of the classic four: fighter, thief, wizard, and priest, rewired in neon lights.

• XP. Each class is shaped by the world it survives in: darkrunners level up on different Talents tables depending on where they earn their XP – the brutal Meatgrid or the haunted Cyberdark. Where you run determines how you grow.
• Mine-Canary Firewalls (MCFs). Your torches against cyber-darkness, cloned biomechanical creatures that serve as your light in the dark. Beware, when they burn out, the Cyberdark closes in.
• Codecasting. Pull unstable fragments of broken code and weave them into glitches – aberrant programs that warp physics, perception, or flesh. Glitches are not safe – every execution risks corruption, every string might fray, and every command could awaken something watching from the cyber-shadows.
• Fast and Lethal Play. Rules-light, OSR-inspired mechanics, rebuilt for cyberpunk – quick rulings, lethal combat, cyberpunk themes. Every decision matters – hesitation kills!

Estimated Shipping Date : July 2026

Kickstarter Link : CYBERDARK RPG