Boots for Beatdown

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Neuromancer

Gibson invented the word "cyberspace" — the founding text of the genre

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All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

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The Big Sleep

Chandler's Marlowe stories invented the hard-boiled detective — every noir owes a debt

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Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players

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Disco Elysium

The greatest detective RPG — your brain is the crime scene

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Cyberpunk 2077

The most immersive cyberpunk world in games

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Blade Runner 2049

Villeneuve's sequel expands the philosophical questions of the original

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness

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True Detective

McConaughey and Harrelson in the Louisiana dark — philosophical noir at its peak