The future. Dark. Dirty. Dangerous. Youre loners, punks and criminals, marginalised by society through birth, choice or violence. Parasites, living symbiotic existences in the shadows cast by the arcologies, feeding from the scraps dangled by the megacorporations and then scurrying back to the shadows to avoid their dismissive, destructive gaze. Those vast multinational corporations Zaibatsus, some call them squat over everything, pulling the strings, controlling the flow of money, information, goods, and people. Governments scamper around their feet, begging for scraps. Hydrophilic lubricious polymers and automated cleaners keep their arcologies shining amidst the grey-brown urban sprawl which surrounds them. Corporate financial muscle pushes people around the city like blood. The megacorporations. Humanitys most successful artificial organism. Technology keeps changing, shifting, mutating — its adapt or die. Theres a sticky film of information smeared over everything, a networked datasphere in service to the megacorps. Buy this. Obey that. Buy more. See, the corps arent satisfied with having it all. They want more, and the only way they can get it is by eating their own. For the megacorporations, espionage, theft, kidnapping and murder are just file folders in the system architecture of success. For you though, theyre rungs on the slippery ladder out of the caustic industrial air the rest of us breathe. Play your cards right and youll be set: reputation, money, credibility. Everything you want. Freedom. But one false step and theyll take away everything. The corps dont need you. They need people like you. Screw up and youll be replaced by the next mouthy punk with too much raw talent and bloody ambition and not enough smarts. Tread carefully. Theres plenty more like you out there in The Sprawl.

The Sprawl is a game of mission-based action in a gritty neon-and-chrome Cyberpunk future. You are the extended assets of vast multinational corporations, operating in the criminal underground, and performing the tasks that those multinationals cant do — or cant be seen to do. You are deniable, professional and — ultimately — disposable.

This game contains adult themes and adult language.