Ludography
80/100
Players2 ratings
72/100
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Metacritic7 critic reviews
62/100
Metacritic usersuser score
68/100
GameFAQsJust Right
4.25/5
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87% positive289 reviews
Steam Deck
Playable
Runs on
Windows, Linux
Price
US$17.99

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2015 · Minor Key Games · Cyberpunk · Indie

Neon Struct

You are Jillian Cleary: an ex-spy on the run, framed for treason and hunted by your former agency. You must move in secret, survive off the grid, and find a way to clear your name. Old friends and new allies will lend their support; but with the eyes of the world upon you, who can you trust?

Released
20 May 2015
Platforms
LinuxWindowsmacOS
Genres
CyberpunkIndieStealth
Developers
Minor Key Games
Publishers
Minor Key Games
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
First person
Themes
ActionStealth
Country
United States
Languages
English
Time to beat
4.5hmain story11hcompletionist

About

NEON STRUCT: Die Augen der Welt (lit. 'NEON STRUCT: The Eyes of the World') is a first-person perspective stealth game developed and published by Minor Key Games for the PC Windows, macOS, and Linux/SteamOS in 2015.

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Gameplay

Neon Struct's gameplay is partially inspired by Deus Ex, with wide areas serving as a way for the player, in a first-person perspective, to complete objectives with some degree of freedom, mainly consisting of breaking into a specific place, obtaining a key item and successfully escaping without getting caught in the process. Neon Struct rewards the player more easily with the use of stealth and subterfuge rather than confrontation and brute force, making the first option more achievable.

Story

The first-person perspective is portrayed through the eyes of the protagonist, an ex-federal agent named Jillian Cleary who is being hunted down by her former agency. She, now as a fugitive must find a way to clear his name by performing some clandestine actions and counting on her allies, trustworthy or not.

Reception

The game received mixed reviews for an averaged Metacritic score of 63/100. GameSpot's Justin Clark described it as "a Super FX chip version of Deus Ex" that "is a testament to the skill involved, but it simply can't help but suffer under the weight of its own ambitions." According to James Cunningham of Hardcore Gamer, Neon Struct "isn't a perfect game, and technically its main gameplay focus of stealth is fairly simplistic," but it "makes up for this by being excellent in many other ways, most notably in the level design and world building." Simon Parkin of Eurogamer lauded this it as a game that "creeps into politically charged themes of surveillance with grace and style" for its "brooding" storyline that makes it "the best kind of science fiction thriller: one dressed in the style of the future, but engaged with the pressing issues of the present."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows3 April 2015Worldwide
Linux3 April 2015Worldwide
macOS3 April 2015Worldwide

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