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As cyborg mercenary Marie, explore a vast cyberpunk Polish city and tackle missions with climbing, stealth, hacking, dialogue, or gunfire.
Released 21 Feb 2025
Scale Ruined Megastructures
Hack Security Terminals
Possess Enemy Guards
You are Marie, a cyborg mercenary dropped into the rot of a post-Soviet city of corruption and opportunity. Shoot, sneak, hack, climb or talk your way through alt-history cyberpunk Poland in an immersive sim where every problem has multiple solutions and every rooftop is reachable.
Developed by Ninth Exodus · Published by Ninth Exodus
You play as Marie, a cybernetic mercenary working through missions in a dystopian, alternate-history Poland. The city’s factions and residents offer jobs, information, and competing interests amid a wider web of conflict.
Explore sprawling, vertically built areas by climbing walls and ledges, crossing rooftops, or searching interiors and underground routes. Approach objectives through stealth, combat, hacking, or conversations, with different routes and interactions available along the way.
Manage weapons, ammunition, attachments, and other gear in an inventory where magazines and bullets are handled as physical items. Marie can also use cybernetic implants that draw on limited energy, making scavenging and resource management part of planning each mission.
Players who enjoy Peripeteia often praise its bleak cyberpunk atmosphere, art direction, and soundtrack, along with the freedom to explore its sprawling levels and find different ways through missions. Reviews also highlight its unusual movement and detailed weapons and inventory systems. These strengths are not universal: some players find the scale and lack of guidance frustrating, and many note rough or unfinished elements.
Peripeteia is a cyberpunk immersive sim set in alternate-history Poland – a first-and-third-person game mixing shooter, stealth and RPG mechanics with an unexplored setting and original ideas.
You are Marie: a cybernetic mercenary in a post-Soviet city full of corruption and opportunity, where nations, factions and ideologies clash. You will use your wits, tact, and raw violent nature to complete tasks shrouded in conspiracy and mystery. Logic, skill and ruthless cunning win the day in an interactive world – but when that fails, a loaded gun and the ability to climb virtually anywhere, will suffice.
Levels so vast they take hours to explore. Every tower, sewer, rooftop and basement is real and reachable. No quest markers. No correct path. If you can see a ledge, Marie can grab it. Forge your own routes with a sabre jammed into a wall or a well-placed crate. Get lost. Find something no one else found. That's the point.
Over 100 weapons – Cold War surplus, prototype rarities, stolen NATO hardware. Every magazine, every bullet, every attachment exists as a physical object in your inventory. Strip enemy weapons for parts. Transfer your gear between missions. Build your stash in Marie's basement. Plan your loadout or improvise when everything goes wrong.
Hack terminals. Possess enemies. Manipulate factions against each other. Sneak through the vents, talk your way past the guards, or come in loud with a stolen PKM. Every mission is a sandbox. Your choices determine who lives, who dies, and whose flag flies over the city.
Marie is living military surplus – powerful but not invincible. Manage your implants, ration your energy, scavenge what you can. The city doesn't care about you. Its factions will use you and discard you.
An unforgettable soundtrack featuring Sewerslvt, Ed Harrison (Neotokyo, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided) and a dozen other amazing artists. Drum and bass, atmospheric ambience, breakcore. Post-Soviet brutalism rendered in the grit of the early 2000s with modern lighting. Rain on concrete. Every second of this city sounds and looks exactly as dark as it should.
An immersive sim for people who think the genre never got the sequel it deserved.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
