X-Kaliber 2097 is a Super NES action game published by Activision. This game was released as Sword Maniac in Japan. The game belongs to the retrofuturistic subgenre of cyberpunk, as it attempts to portray a distant future based on a lack of knowledge of future (now present) events. (see Retro-futurism) The game takes place in the near-anarchic future of the year 2097, in which the world's economy has been devastated, governments have collapsed, and organized crime has gained dramatic influence.