From VPG:
It is the dawn of the Super-Massive Computer (SMC) Age, when an increasingly amoral society in rapid decline created an SMC named Mother to understand this wane in morality. A series of city-wide neural implant programs, dubbed “the harvests,” enabled data gathering directly from a person’s cerebral cortex. Becoming increasingly empowered by the collective thoughts of a city, Mother soon became her own master, not just reading minds, but controlling them.
Only the few that avoided the harvests remained untouched by Mother’s influence. Among those hardened criminals and frightened refugees, the “Renegades” fight back.
Renegade is a solo/co-operative cyberpunk deck-building game for 1 to 5 players. You hack into a server network operated by one of four SMCs. Each has their own AI with increasing complexity to defeat. You must puzzle through and survive their Countermeasures before the network is overrun by the SMC’s Spark and Guardian defenses. Employing informational, destructive, deceptive, and cognitive attacks in your hacker’s toolbox, you and your team must outsmart “the system” and take down the SMC to save humanity!
- Play as one of five Renegade hackers, each with unique abilities.
- Construct and improve your hand of Command cards by purchasing new ones from the Hack Shack.
- Each SMC provides different challenges and increasing difficulty.
- Cooperative gameplay really requires you out-thinking (the SMC) together to win!
Examine the Renegade Rulebook here!
NOTE: This is a beta version! The actual Rulebook is complete, but layout, proofing, and other corrections are still being finalized.
