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Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
Hacknet is a hacking, simulation and programming game
developed by Team Fractal Alligator
and published by Fellow Traveller.
Released on August 12th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Turkish.
It has received 25,115 reviews of which 23,511 were positive and 1,604 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified Hacknet into these genres:
System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
- Storage: 500 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: OSX 13.04
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 13.4 LTS
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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BUY THIS GAME!!! YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!!! BUY THIS *AND* THE LABYRINTHS DLC!!! I would hardly call this a game as it is more of an experience and a ABSOLUTELY AMAZING ONE at that! Listen... you are going to start out knowing NOTHING. Over time, you will learn how to navigate systems and implement your tools to get into systems. But there is SO MUCH MORE to this game than that! You start to intuit how things work and what to do, even when no one is holding your hand and spoon-feeding you directions. You will make discoveries and piece together stories and relationships. You start digging on your own with NO ONE telling you to. There are moments where you are going to be STRESSED OUT! LOL It's absolutely wonderful how immersed you get in this work of art. Remember in Skyrim, where if you read the books that you find, even if they don't trigger a quest, they actually HAVE quests in them? Remember how awesome it felt to figure it out all on your own and reap the rewards of your mental efforts? THIS GAME is like that ALL THE TIME!!! I will admit... there were parts of this game where my eyes teared up, partly because I realized what was going on, partly because I realized what I was capable of, and partly because there wasn't more when I beat the game... but there IS more: Extensions. HackNet Extensions allows YOU, the player, to design and build your OWN missions/quests and share them! Now YOU can be the one to create experiences for OTHERS to have. This game... is one of the COOLEST games I have EVER played. If you don't buy it, you are robbing yourself and missing out on something AWESOME. [ TO THE CREATOR/MAKERS OF THE GAME: I want to say: Thank you SO much for this experience. I am very appreciative and amazed at your work. I also want to apologize for not getting my hands on your work sooner. I am REALLY looking forward to crafting my OWN HackNet Extension; I think I have some pretty cool ideas. :D I don't know if I have the skills, yet I would love the opportunity to become a "Fellow Traveler." ] run TraceKill.exe
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☑ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☑ Very Long - with Labyrinths ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Note: I am biased because of the nature of my job. While not related to IT Security, it involves technical troubleshooting / problem solving and all kind of investigations. Basically, less fun version of Hacknet. Accurate Hacking Simulator? I was not exposed to a lot of hacking in games, maybe just a bit in Sleeping Dogs, or Cyberpunk 2077. While other games focus purely on hacking vibes, those tend to ignore the actual process. And Hacknet pays much more attention to the realistic aspect of the game. Of course, to me it looks like huge oversimplification, but that was made as a game, right? It was made to be simple, fun and accessible. And it never felt like I am working, it felt like I am playing a game and having a good time. So while not being accurate, it nails the realistic hacking experience to enough extent. Handholding or Exploration? The first 60% to 70% percent of the game felt like a tutorial. Fun, with a lot of stories and action, but with a huge sense that I am playing in a sandbox. Everything is pretty safe, and you get what you need to do right from the email, so you need to execute specific steps without much investigation. Yes, you need to look for something specific, but it is usually very algorithmic and follows the same steps. So, this feels like handholding to me, and having to "detective" part to it, where you just don't know where to look at and have to think and explore. But! There are endgame quests, such as the main story line or Project Junebug quest. Those actually did things perfectly as I have wanted. There is more to reading, investigating, searching and connecting pieces of information together. This was perfect. Example: usually it would be "find a (file / password / IP) or edit / remove something. Here is the server.". That is straightforward. Project Junebug: Here is the name of the person. Kill him. You see what I mean? That is perfect example of what I wanted this game to be. And it eventually has things that appeal to me! So, overall, great experience. Right? A bit of so-so moments Just one. The game has netMap, a graph that displays the machines you have connected to. And the graph grows, and there is less and less space, it all becomes cluttered at some point. And there is no way to clean it up, resize, organize or alter. And this is sad a bit, because the missions that I liked involve a lot of research, but the research progress was hevily impacted by overall messy navigation system. But it's a minor thing. What else? The Easter Eggs and Secrets While the big part of the game feels like a tutorial, it has a lot of things to explore. Jokes and memes, hidden quests with high rewards - it's all there. So if you want, you can take much more from the game than it offers at a first sight. Like in some RPGs you can even get overpowered pretty early - if you follow some clues in the game, you can get CLOCK.EXE, which makes game itself hacked. Things that are hidden and require exploration definitely cool here. The Music I pay a lot of attention to game OSTs, it makes me love the game more if the music resonates with me. And back in 2017 when I have bought the game, I learned about Hacknet from Remi (The Algorithm) - one of the musicians behind the OST, and I bought it. So, to me the OST is perfectly fitting the game. Just very neat, I thought. Until the final mission. I have three examples of getting goosebumps from the music in the game: 1. One optional boss fight in Baldur's Gate 3 2. Expedition 33 in various places. And... Yeah, the final mission of Hacknet! Putting Carpenter Brut's Roller Mobster , one of my favorite synthwave / darksynth tracks ever made me freeze for a minute in awe. And then realize that time is ticking and I need to do everything fast. Perfect sense of adrenaline. Great choice for OST! Really solid hacking-lite experience Overall, I liked this game. Relatively short, but never gets dull. And I have not even touched the DLC yet - and it has 97% positive rating! So, while the main game is over for me, I will get to Labyrinths in future to feel this enjoyment again.
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A hacker named Bit is dead. His computer had an automated script which sends a random person a set of instructions. YOU are the one selected to follow out his last will. The game is a good hacking simulation, with a good command line system, a well-designed UI for those who aren't quite used to the command line yet, and a very well-designed web of connections. IP addresses, names, and quests are randomized each time so everyone's experience is slightly different. They even have some funny conversations in text files on some PCs. All the scripts you need to complete the game are easily accessible, whether you get them from hidden locations or you find them in organization databases. There are even some interesting things you can do with the command line and some interesting moments where it pays to have a bit of extra knowledge going in. And easter eggs. MANY easter eggs. Seriously, when you think you've found it all, something new catches your eye. Through my playthroughs I did not check if there was a way to create automated scripts for some of these things. If it was possible, I completely missed it, and if it wasn't, it is something I would fault this game for at least slightly. However, it not being there does not detract from the rest of the game, as hacking tools are abundant. The story is really good, and all of the design moments know just how to kick your brain into overdrive. Overall, I'd give it a 10/10. This is one of my favorite games to date. If you are willing to learn the command line, generally good practices, and pay close attention to everything you find, this game will be a blast. I HIGHLY recommend learning how to use the command line instead of relying on the UI, as there are some things that will definitely be much better if you do so. A second or third playthrough also still hits pretty good, as you can look back at when things were introduced, catch things you wouldn't have caught before, and overall experience it in a completely different way. After you've played the DLC and the game itself once or twice though, the replayability goes down heavily, but there is a TON of mods in the community if you want to see what others have made. Go out there and leave no trace behind.
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By far the best hacking game I have seen here with some "meta" elements added to it. This game is just as fun even if you don't have a background in cyber security. 10/5 stars
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Hacknet is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.
Hacknet is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.
Hacknet received 23,511 positive votes out of a total of 25,115 achieving an impressive rating of 9.15.
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Hacknet was developed by Team Fractal Alligator and published by Fellow Traveller.
Hacknet is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Hacknet is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Hacknet is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Hacknet is a single-player game.
There are 3 DLCs available for Hacknet. Explore additional content available for Hacknet on Steam.
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Hacknet does not support Steam Remote Play.
Hacknet is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Team Fractal Alligator
Publisher
Fellow Traveller
Release
12 Aug 2015
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