It was set in the future...then for a while there it was the alternate present...and now it's in the past...
It's Cyberpunk 2020 and 'Night City' along with its various precursors and derivatives. If you want to get technical there is 2020 which is still the most famous along with the first version which took place in 2013, so those are in the past for sure, but there is the current version of the TTRPG called Cyberpunk Red which is in 2045 and the video game version that I talked about yesterday that takes place in 2077 so as to keep the main settings in the future even if it is like Max Headroom--20 minutes into the future.
In many cases the games predicted what actually came to be and may yet come around...most of the predicted technological advances are still well in development, they just aren't up to the standard/common place that the fictional year 2020 presented them as being. There are some cases in which the real-time counterpart actually surpassed the fiction. However, in all cases the settings are familiar enough to easily get invested in because they are grounded in reality while still being imaginative. This is vastly different from the typical sword and sorcery of D&D and even from the similarly themed Shadowrun which introduced fantasy elements into the cyberpunk genre. I can't get enough of it. The Cyberpunk setting is one of the few that I can watch live play throughs and though it's a few years old now, the Playstation Access crew's mini-campaign remains a favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FlU6p9KKzU&list=PLLUkxbIkknLuQJJRwEbV5z2WFt6hs9Rxy
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