Edgerunners never needed a joystick to hit. Now it doesn't need a screen either.
## The pitch No Loading Games is putting out Cyberpunk: Edgerunners – Hunted, a real-time cooperative board game for one to four players, ages 14 and up, according to ICv2 and GameRant. Players take on David, Lucy, Rebecca and Maine and run missions across Night City in roughly 30 minutes a session, working through 76 board tiles, mission cards, standees and sealed "secret envelopes" that unlock extra material mid-campaign. MSRP is $39.99, with an estimated ship date of September 30 per its pre-order listing.
## The catch worth knowing The game runs on a real-time mechanic — an hourglass, not a turn order — which means the table has to move as fast as the crew would in the show. Enemies pulled from the Maelstrom gang, the NCPD, and Adam Smasher himself stand between the squad and the objective. That's a harder sell for a casual game night than a standard turn-based crawl, and it's the reason this is getting a review, not just a pre-order link.
## Why this is the Cyberpunk beat today There's no new Edgerunners 2 anime news this week — nothing from Netflix or CD Projekt since Tuesday's clip. The standing Cyberpunk slot still needs filling, and a board game is a genuinely different way into the world: it's Night City on your kitchen table instead of your TV, built by people who license the world's characters instead of just its aesthetic.
## The read A tie-in board game is usually a formality. A real-time co-op built around the actual named cast, with an hourglass forcing bad decisions under pressure, is a studio that read the source material instead of slapping a logo on a generic dungeon crawler. Worth a look before you write it off as merch.
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## Sources - ICv2 - GameRant - PNP Games Online, pre-order listing