You know, you’d think that in a city overflowing with cyberpsychos, corpo-rats, and the constant threat of your own brain-busting hardware malfunctioning, your biggest worry would be, like, survival. But a new mod for Cyberpunk 2077 has decided that what the game was really missing was the existential horror of paying rent. Because escaping reality is for cowards, I guess. 🙃 Say less, because modder DarkFortuneTeller has dropped the mod, and it’s here to give your V some authentic financial anxiety. This isn’t just a little tweak; it’s a full-blown overhaul of the housing system that turns your cozy apartment into a recurring bill.
Welcome to Your Worst Nightmare: Rent
Let's break down this fresh hell. In the vanilla game, buying an apartment was a one-and-done deal. You dropped a fat stack of eddies, and the place was yours forever. It was giving major rich kid energy. But "Eviction Notice" drags you back to reality. Once you own a place, you’re on the hook for regular rent payments. If you don’t pay up? You get evicted. Straight up. All your stuff, out on the curb. Okay, maybe not literally, but you lose access. Brutal.
Honestly, we didn’t expect a mod to go so hard on making us feel poor. It adds a layer of consequence that was definitely missing. Suddenly, you have to actually budget in Night City. What a concept.
Your Landlord Is an AI Who Sends Selfies 💀
This is where it goes from a simple gameplay mechanic to high-key terrifying. The mod introduces interactive landlords for each apartment. These aren’t just faceless corporations; they can be actual people, corps, or even AIs. And they will slide into your DMs uninvited.
Players have reported getting threatening texts and payment reminders that are genuinely unnerving. And in a move that is truly chaotic, some landlords will even send you SELFIES. Not me actually screaming at the thought of a Megacorp AI sending a glamor shot with a message like, "Hey bestie, rent is due! xoxo." The creator calls it "lightweight quest content," but we're calling it psychological warfare. And we're kinda living for it.
This mod has been getting a ton of love from the community, with players praising it for turning Cyberpunk into the life-sim they secretly always wanted. It’s part of a whole wave of mods adding things like hunger and thirst mechanics, making Night City feel less like a playground and more like a place you could actually, terrifyingly, live in. For more info, you can check out the mod's page on Nexus Mods.
So, if you’re looking to trade the fear of flatlining for the fear of your landlord's next text message, this mod is for you. DarkFortuneTeller understood the assignment: make Night City’s capitalist nightmare hit just a little closer to home. And honestly? They ate that.
