CyberPunk "Card" Game

This title was not what I thought it would be. I had recently been playing on the Switch more at work and was deep in my love affair with Cyber Punk. I had just beaten Dex, purchased Anno: Total Mutation, and found a title called Infinite Corp. I saw two of my favorite niches combined when I found it in the marketplace. Cyberpunk AND a card game? Yes, please! What I installed, however, was a business simulator that has you swiping screens like so many cliche shows and movies.

When you start the game, you are hired by your typically amoral conglomerate and ordered to delegate on their behalf. You will be faced with choices ranging from allowing the security team run simulations in abandoned warehouses to paying gangs to help keep other gangs in check. You are presented with 3-6 scenarios a day before moving on to the next. Your choices will also affect your relationships with the citizens, media, security, syndicate, and of course, your elite overlords. Each has its own approval bar, and the game is over if one stays low for too long.

As you continue to play, you will collect cards representing the characters and abilities that will assist you in climbing the shadowy corporate ladder. These can vary from being a faceless drone in a sea of lackeys to hiring a bodyguard to protect you from specific bad encounters, just to name a few. And for a title that seems to only have enough scenes to count, on the one hand, there is a bit more depth than I initially thought.

Speaking of first impressions, my first play of this title infuriated me. I was expecting a card game, and while I wasn't expecting Yu-Gi-Oh or Shadowverse, I would not call Infinite Corp a card game. Their idea of a card game is having a card present you with a problem and swiping left or right to answer. Suppose the programmers had taken advantage of the Nintendo Switch's touch screen. In that case, it could have had a novelty factor in its favor, but sadly that is not the case. In truth, I probably would have never given this title a second chance if it wasn't for the fact that I enjoy business sim games. In conclusion, while this game was deceptive, I would suggest it to fans of titles like the first Ghostbuster on the Sega Master System or a Sports Manager game.