Cheese Runner

Cheese Runner is a retro ASCII-art cyberpunk crime trading game. You play as an underground trader of illicit cheese in a dystopia where a mysterious virus has eliminated most of Earth’s livestock and corporations control synthetic food, leaving much of humanity dependent on them. Cheese is banned under the guise of public safety because food labs cannot synthesize casein, a key component of milk needed to make it.

Smuggling cheese

Ranchers in the Underground raise “cowntraband” to produce cheese, and you distribute it as a Cheese Runner. You have taken out a loan to enter the smuggling business and must make good on it within 30 days or face the grinder. Evade killbots and sniffcopters searching for cowntraband as you try to sell your cheese.

A corporate dystopia

Corporate control is enforced by a violent police state, which a small segment of the population resists. Your trading operation takes place within this struggle over food and survival.