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hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.

hackmud is a hacking, programming and massively multiplayer game developed and published by ComCODE.
Released on September 22nd 2016 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 826 reviews of which 647 were positive and 179 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.10€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified hackmud into these genres:

Hacking Programming Massively Multiplayer Simulation Indie Cyberpunk Puzzle Text-Based Memes RPG

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 10
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS 10.9
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
Linux
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM

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Dec. 2024
This game is a masterpiece that hurts my soul. And that's not a reference to the use of JavaScript (mostly). It is the game of my dreams in basically every way, honestly, but playing it once you escape the "tutorial" just slams you with this odd feeling. Genuinely not 100% sure how to explain the feeling; my best attempt is that it strikes you with a deep sense of nostalgia for experiences you never had, that never occurred. Like I can see how great the game is, and its biggest flaw is really no fault of its own: playerbase. Ultimately, the game sets out to be a mmo from the terminal, Hack.net's multiplayer cousin. But you can't have a mmo without the mm. I sat here for 3 hours looking into learning JavaScript, frustrated by the lack of resources available. I found wikis from 2017, a dead reddit, a slightly less dead discord. I couldn't understand (and still don't) how there was so little engagement for such a great product. And then, I checked the player counts. 24. At the time of writing this and as I had played previously, there were only 23 other people in game. An all time peak of 502 players. I have no idea why this is, but the game apparently was never given a shot. The game's amazing. I can't recommend it due to lack of players, but I have to recommend it due to lack of players if that even makes any sense. I was expecting a solid base of ~20,000 players and now I'm here experiencing a tragedy lol
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Dec. 2024
There's no better time to hop on the game than NOW, the game was overhauled with an all new tutorial update, definetly recommend checking it out now as it's a way better introduction to the game! ------------ Amazing game, although sadly a bit dead MMO aspect, because a lot of people moved to chatting on Discord instead of using in-games public chat. However that doesn't kill the vibe and just how much interesting exploration this game has. The tutorial at the start of the game is a bit long and tedious at times, but getting into the real thing makes it so exciting. There's a lot of different corporations to join, a lot of different places to hack, discover, try out. I wish there was a bit more to lose, like for example in Hacknet you can lose your entire system and have to find the person who hacked you and take your system back (although it's a scripted singleplayer interaction), sadly this game is more tied to your upgrades and your money, but nevertheless, it's a very interesting experience that I honestly recommend giving a try
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Nov. 2024
:::TRUST COMMUNICATION::: Unauthorized access detected. Suspending environment... I can't state enough just how much I enjoy this game. The puzzles, the programming, the community - it's all amazing. It's all a labor of love, a pursuit for education. Hackmud took what programming knowledge I had and expanded it heavily, spending my time designing systems from scratch to solve a puzzle set forth by either the developers or players. Such a large part of the game is interacting with other players' content in a fully open multiplayer sandbox (with some surprisingly minimal restriction). Players have written entire games, you can play the ever so popular word guessing game or tempt fate by choosing one of three doors. Idle games between trying to figure out how to access some content gated behind one command or another. Players have written simulators for built-in content, big and small. Players have written genius scams, but also genius and genuine tools. On top of this, even if you don't want to learn to program or don't know how to program, there's a place for you - so much content is just about the lore. The entire reason the simulated environment exists, the people behind it. The occasional event always needs someone who's willing to just sit down, read and learn. The fact that the game is an MMO where the players make their own content means there's never a lack of things to do and if you think there is, you can make things to do. I don't think I've ever seen an MMO that has potential to survive without updates, but this right here... this is it. :::TRUST COMMUNICATION::: Unauthorized connection killed. Security restored. Resuming environment. xxxx 0000 gear :::what's up mud?:::
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Oct. 2024
I thought I was going to play for an hour or two before getting bored and deciding to quit. ~10 hours in and I am craving more and more. Edit: ~20 hours in and I will probably keep messing around with it. Though sadly the game is "dead". And by "dead" I mean you will rarely encounter another player in game to talk with, the discord community is active, but the game itself doesn't seem to get much traffic sadly, from my own observations. The " [...] as you explore the abandoned internet of the future." part of the game's description is very apt. The 0000 channell is filled with various scams, automated scripts and what not from the earlier days of the game. To sum it up; if the idea of exploring a (abandoned) sandbox MUD, filled with automated scrips, NPCs, and rarely a player or two, all while using a terminal interface and javascript scripts to do so appeals to you, then you might enjoy the game as I did/am/will. If not, I don't think I could recommend the game.
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Sept. 2024
fantastic game with a steep learning curve but mindbending puzzles that make it very much worth the effort
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hackmud is currently priced at 19.10€ on Steam.

hackmud is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.10€ on Steam.

hackmud received 647 positive votes out of a total of 826 achieving a rating of 7.46.
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hackmud was developed and published by ComCODE.

hackmud is playable and fully supported on Windows.

hackmud is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

hackmud is playable and fully supported on Linux.

hackmud offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

hackmud offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There is a DLC available for hackmud. Explore additional content available for hackmud on Steam.

hackmud does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

hackmud does not support Steam Remote Play.

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hackmud
19.10€
7.5
647
179
Game modes
Multiplayer
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Online players
7
Developer
ComCODE
Publisher
ComCODE
Release 22 Sep 2016
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