Basic Gameplay Overview
Monolithic megacorps and individualistic netrunners collide in a dystopian future. Set in the gritty, cyberpunk future of Android, Android: Netrunner is a two-player Living Card Game™ that rewards skill, strategy, and just the right amount of calculated risk.
“You want to be cheap, be cheap. But you want to flex your muscles? Go ahead and do it. Do it right. You’re driving one of the world’s mightiest megacorporations. You have credits like most people have red blood cells. Now, you can use it. Lock up your servers. Safe.”
"Runners think their thefts are clever. They think they can beat us at 'our game.' Such thoughts are foolish. We are not playing games. We are engineering a more efficient humanity. We are running a multi-billion credit industry, and we will defend our assets accordingly." –Director Haas
The real mission? We’re going to save the human race.” –Jack Weyland
“Money is honest. Credits may be cold, uncaring, heartless abstractions, but they offer an unavoidable truth: The more, the better.” –Iain Stirling
Control your data. Control your destiny. Data and Destiny is the fourth deluxe expansion for Android: Netrunner The Card Game, focusing on media giant NBN and three groundbreaking Runners.
“Good day, Ms. Jones. The address on the table is of a client who would like to unsubscribe. Standard cancellation. Nothing too noisy, please.” –transcript from NBN security feed
“Last month’s ice? My friend, that tech may as well be the horse and buggy, analog recording, fossil fuels, or landline telephones. It’s a sharp new world. You need the bleeding edge or nothing!” –H.E.G. Software Designs
“How do you visualize static? I see thieves prowling the net in slow-motion, their hacks disrupted, crawling down the paths we set before them. The greatest securities don’t stop these criminals and their progress but route them where we choose.” –H.O. Murakami, Jinteki network designs
Hardware and programs drive efficiency, but talent trumps them both in Humanity’s Shadow, the fifth Data Pack in the Genesis Cycle!
“The stakes have gotten higher than you might have anticipated, Mr. Santiago. We’ll continue to support you as long as this partnership remains profitable, but we strongly recommend that you watch your step.” –Mr. Li, broker
“Corporate executives have launched an internal investigation of the alleged use of illicit security software, known as ice, by several reckless and disgruntled former employees…” –NBN Live at 5
“Don’t try to anticipate every move. Just anticipate the moves that matter.” –Reina Roja
“Can a single voice still make a difference? Probably not, but that won’t stop me from trying. What GRNDL does to the environment is nothing short of criminal.” –Tallie Perrault
“We’re raising state-of-the-art facilities in close proximity to cozy residential neighborhoods, fantastic ethnic cuisine, and convenient mass transit. This renovation is going to bring high-end jobs, as well as highly skilled workers, and it’s going to improve our quality of life in this city.” –Elizabeth Mills
There are three realities in the world of Android: Netrunner. You have the meat world. There, Corps are massive conglomerations, comprised of thousands of individuals, all housed in towers of glass, steel, and plascrete, and Runners are like all other mortals, needing to eat and breathe and sleep.
“Do you want to play again – double or nothing?” –Reina Roja
“Autorun initiated.” The files were opening. There was a flurry of code running across his screen. Ones and zeroes, old binary machine code. It was beautiful.
What will come of one Runner’s hunt for the net’s legendary source protocols?
Up and Over is the fourth Data Pack in the Lunar Cycle for Android: Netrunner, and as the game continues to explore life on the moon, you’ll find a lot of the standard Runner tricks no longer work.
