It nails the setting and aesthetic needed to sell itself as a cyberpunk setting in a way that makes me instantly want to start a game of it. Don't know how to praise a game better than that :)

So much fun to run with a lighthearted group of friends. Keep it goofy, and brutal. The world building in this game awesome, and the community is great to boot!

Like MÖRK BORG before it, this cybernetic outing is primarily a visual artifact. While the underlying system is solid, it’s nothing revolutionary, but the visuals in the book, coupled with evocative flavor text, elevate the game—the aesthetic works. Fan support is also excellent, with many gems.

This is a fast, furious and fun rpg that really captures the dark, dystopian mood of a cyberpunk universe. The mechanics are simple and clean. They really steer the game towards having the characters stir up some shit and cause trouble. For example, the player in my game that was running a "burned hacker" had a great time using his "Boom Boom" app to blow up appliances and vending machines to terrible effect for those nearby.

I ran the two the adventures it comes with- Lucky Flight Takedown and Reaper Repo. Both were a really fun and easy to run. I like how they organize their adventures. They were both short (we got trough each one in a single session), but they were both lot of fun to run and play.

I'm looking forward to playing more Cy_Borg in the coming months/years.

Cyberpunk MORK BORG, what else do you need to know? Fantastic game

Great cyberpunk RPG. Slim and fast rules worh no barriers to fun. Friends love it and we've had barrels of laughs from the shennanigans they've gotten up to. Would reccomend to anyone interested in cyberpunk as a genre.

Another slick easy-to-learn and fun game from StockholmCartel. Aesthetically beautiful and significantly easier to navigate than thealso-rad MörkBorg book.

As a long time fan of Cyberpunk RPGs, this book really hits the mark. You get all the bombastic fun of running around a near-future city with a pink mohawk - but none of the rulesbloat. Running this game is truly a delight taking very little to time to prep or create characters. A wonderful experience to play.

Welcom to cyberpunk hell - a Mephisto review

The cover shows it right away: Those who prefer the cyberpunk genre to classic sword & sorcery fantasy no longer have to wait for a role-playing game in the style of Mörk Borg. With CY_BORG, a cyberpunk adaptation has been released that sticks to the core aspects of Mörk Borg: simple old-school rules, gritty setting, and extreme presentation. The world of CY_BORG is a dystopia that turns out to be even bleaker than most other role-playing games in the genre because it is not just corrupt and rotten but definitely on the brink of ruin. On the one hand, there are super-rich corporations, and on the other, brutal gangs and mutants. Drugs, contamination, violence, and corruption characterize life in the city of Cy. After introducing the setting in short, concise text passages, a table for random events that affect the city provides dynamics within the game world – and additional hooks for the extreme setting. For example, a gigantic plant may appear overnight, all credsticks may become worthless, or an entire city district may go down in a nuclear explosion. And as with Mörk Borg, the last event ends the entire campaign...

Using the classic old-school approach, characters are created through dice rolls for five traits, possessions (some strange and limited in usefulness), style, characteristics, goals, etc. In addition to these generic characters, classes such as Shunned Nanomancer, Burned Hacker, or Discharged Corp Killer can also be selected, modifying stats and adding additional characteristics. Like in Mörk Borg, character creation takes only a few moments (which is thus guaranteed to be at least slightly shorter than the life expectancy of the game characters). Starting weapons (determined by the roll of dice) are generic and differ only in damage (and, if applicable, the fact that they have the auto-fire option). Finally, one thing applies to all characters: they are in debt to someone who wants his money back or else...

As with Mörk Borg, everything about equipment in CY_BORG is provided in tables: special ammunition, drugs, cybertech or apps. And here, too, the spectrum fluctuates wildly between useful, bizarre, and absurd.

With the apps, there is a simple approach to hacking. Additionally, nanopowers provide special abilities for the characters through nanobots, but these can also lead to infestations, which mean bizarre physical changes.

After all, characters also get bonus markers called glitches, which they can spend on rerolls or maximum damage etc. Characters can also improve between missions – but only at the gamemaster's discretion, and also based on random dice rolls.

For the gamemaster, there are many profiles and descriptions for enemies up to mechs. A mission generator can be used for rolling out adventures, and there are tables for corporations, cults, and events. The book also features a sample adventure, Lucky Flight Takedown, in which player characters get to take apart a casino....

Mörk Borg goes cyberpunk – even though this idea raised my interest and the system and setting were also consistently implemented here without any compromises, CY_BORG did not captivate me in the end. What works flawlessly for Mörk Borg – the brutally simplified and badass OSR rules and the sickeningly depressing Dark Fantasy setting – does not fit cyberpunk: there are no gray areas here, as I would have expected for the genre. The world is so corrupt and broken that the players' actions will not make any sense or difference. The arsenal of random tables, which fits perfectly to a dungeon crawler, does not sit well with the genre for me – though I am probably biased by my own earlier cyberpunk role-playing days in this case.

CY_BORG, like Mörk Borg, is an extreme yet consistent implementation from content to design that also contains exciting ideas. However, this game requires players willing to suffer (or there is a risk that they will just follow the setting and run entirely amok), so I personally find it more or less unplayable – even if it was fun to read the utterly over-the-top dystopia in the completely extreme layout.

(Björn Lippold)

The rule set is a ton of fun and leaves a lot of room to change and do what you want. Highly recommend this game.

After the dissapointment with other big names in the Cyberpunk genre, Cy_Borg became my new favorite game. The style, the ideas, the light rules. It's oozing with possibilities and it's a pleasure to read for the sake of reading it. It is an OSR style game with a rule system focused on improvization, randomess and player creativity. Most rolls fall on players hands (for example, you don't roll to attack, instead players roll to evade) which frees you as a GM to focus more on what happens and the history. Played with my usual group and even my kids, and it always surprised me where the game takes you.

Mörk Borg was awesome because it was unlike anything else I had seen before. CY_BORG is astounding because it's like something I've seen before, but expanded upon and improved and made very very extra. The optional classes drip with style and have the potential for a lot of fun times at the table, and the snippets of lore about the city of Cy give you just enough detail to spark inspiration while still being scant enough to give you full freedom to develop the city the way you want to. The true goldmine is in the tables-- especially the mission generator. I anticipate many years of play with just the core book alone. Highly, highly recommended.

Every image, every description, every table enhances the world, the setting, the rules and the gameplay. Even if it looks like a wonderful, artful, beautiful mess out of a lost future - Nothing is wasted.

This is a really really cool system. It has a bit more crunch compared to something like Mork Borg (my favorite system) but remains very light on rules without sacraficing depth. Can't wait to see some published adventures for it.