Black Ice Quest
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Black Ice Quest

A gang staged the crash that killed your family and left you in a wheelchair. Now you claw your way back up — as a hacker, a talker, or a fighter. A cyberpunk action-RPG where every choice is your character.

Every locked door has a hacker's key, a talker's key, and a fighter's key. Which one you reach for is your character.

What is Black Ice Quest

The Hack
Jack into hostile networks as a glowing avatar. Spend RAM, run programs, beat the ICE before the trace flatlines you.
The Street
Walk a rain-soaked neon district. Talk, sneak, fight or hack your way through — every obstacle has more than one solution.
The World
A late-cyberpunk megacity, worn not shiny. The future already happened — and got repossessed.

Three ways to play

Hacker
Beat the lock from the inside. Jack into the network, burn the ICE, and the door opens before anyone draws a gun.
Talker
Read the room and rewrite it. The right words turn an enemy into an exit — no shot fired, no trace left.
Fighter
When talk runs out, fists, pipes and pistols finish it. Hit hard, take the hit, walk out the other side.
Faces of the city

Everyone here owes someone.

From the world

The Hack

Crack the ICE before the trace flatlines you.

The story

It was supposed to be an ordinary drive home — a young man fresh out of college, with his parents and his sister in the car. Then another car came out of nowhere. It wasn't an accident. The crash was staged. His family didn't survive. He did — with a broken back and legs that no longer answer.

He wakes at home, alone, in an old wheelchair. The city won't pay to put him back together. No neon heroics here — just rent, pain, and a debt someone wants you to owe.

Your first real choice: scrape by on the street — beg, gather coins, buy cheap prosthetics and learn to limp on your own. Or take the hand strangers offer: want to walk again? You'll owe us. One path is slow, and yours. The other is fast — with a price you can't see yet.

Because the people offering to put you back on your feet may be the very people behind the crash that took your family. Black Ice Quest is a choice-driven cyberpunk noir — every step is one you chose, and someone is keeping count of what you owe.

Why "Black ICE"?

ICE = Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics — the guardian programs that defend the networks you break into.

Black ICE is the lethal kind. It fries your cyberdeck and flatlines you — your character dies for good. The most dangerous thing in the game.

The term "ICE" is classic cyberpunk — Black ICE is its killer variant.

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