Sysrunner 2026

A Cyberpunk Solo Card Game. In a dystopian near-future, you are a cyberpunk hacker known as a ‘Runner’. The evil corporation, Chisei Psitech, specialises in brain enhancements and plans to extend its corrupt hold on the city. To stop them, you must hack into their corporate server and thwart their schemes before their cyber-defences can track you down. It is a race against time, with only one winner… You begin with a deck of basic cards. On your turn, you buy and play cards to improve your deck and to hack into the corp’s network. The corp’s network is defended by Platform Active Defences (known as Pads). You must defeat the pads to access their server and win. When you run out of cards in your deck, you shuffle the discards with any cards you added to make a new deck. This way your deck gets stronger and you will be able to defeat more pads and reach the server. Meanwhile, the corp is trying to hinder you and track you down. You are protected from the corp by links in cyberspace. If the corp can trace your links, they will capture you and you lose.

—description from the designer