Someone posted a photo to the Melbourne subreddit this week that stopped me mid-scroll. It was taken just as power was being restored to the CBD after an outage, and it looks, genuinely, like concept art for a game that hasn’t been made yet.

Wet streets. Neon reflecting off everything. That particular quality of light you only get when half the city is dark and the other half is suddenly, violently bright again. A few people in the comments said “Cyberpunk 2077 vibes” and they’re not wrong, but it’s more specific than that. It looked like the moment in a story-driven RPG where you emerge from a sewer into the city for the first time and the game engine is showing off a bit. You half expect a quest marker to appear.