An innovative tech demo, powered by Unreal Engine 5.5.3, immerses players in a futuristic cyberpunk city. Created by artist Sciontidesign, this project draws inspiration from the Samaritan UE3 demo, Blade Runner, and the visual style of Cyberpunk 2077. Showcased on high-end hardware—an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU, AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM (6000MHz)—the demo highlights Unreal Engine 5's capabilities.

This technical demonstration relies entirely on dynamic lighting, showcasing Nanite with Distance Field Meshes and Ambient Occlusion, combined with Screen Space Reflections. Significantly, it omits advanced features like Lumen, Path Tracing, RTX, DLSS, and baked lighting, demonstrating UE5's potential even without its most sophisticated tools.

The rain effect, while somewhat artificial, features impressively detailed wet surfaces, enhancing the urban environment's realism. However, frequent invisible walls disrupt immersion. While Unreal Engine 5 tech demos consistently deliver stunning visuals, games built using the engine often face performance challenges in real-world applications.