Quadrilateral Cowboy review – hacker sim takes you back to cyberpunk future

It might be too short and a bit clunky, but Blendo Games' newest effort finds joy in the weird and wonderful retro-future world of 1980s coding

In the cool summer air outside a glass-walled villa, a woman with blue hair and a headscarf sits hunched over a computer, typing in a string of programming commands. In three seconds, a suitcase will deploy a rifle, which will, in four seconds, fire through a window and deactivate a set of lasers. In five seconds, she will be inside the villa, and in six seconds she will have opened the safe behind the bookcase which holds her target. In seven seconds, everything will go catastrophically wrong at the hands of an errant semicolon, and mean mission failure.

The code will have to be debugged, the heist simulation run again.