Yolo Space Hacker
This is an excellent way for people to get familiar with information security concepts through a Linux platform. Many concepts are expanded upon, the tools are open to be used in far more extensive way than completing the game’s challenges require, and real-world links are given to sources with more information about topics than the game requires the user to understand.
An important note: This game approaches the art of hacking from a red teamer’s perspective. That means pay attention to boundaries (or at least understanding where they are), and knowing the difference between testing to complete the customer’s objective and wandering off the mark. That doesn’t mean the game requires you to do this, but it tries to make you understand it.
– Real player with 70.8 hrs in game
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I played the beta (and also helped the team with language review and debugging), and I really recommend the game. It’s a great introduction into computer security. It’s based on actual hacking tools, using an encapsulated VM so you can do everything in a safe environment. Challenges start easy and get tough really really fast, so expect some hardship making it to the end if you don’t have much IT skills, but it feels so rewarding when you finally manage to pass a test.
Just don’t expect it to be easy :-)
– Real player with 33.5 hrs in game
Markov Alg
Very cool puzzler and an amazing value. As previous reviewers said, it is somewhat reminiscent of Rogue Bit, but I found the format of individual self-contained puzzles, to be much more enjoyable. It is a game that requires logic and planning.
The puzzles start off easy taking less than a minute to solve, to some very interesting head-scratchers that take maybe 30 minutes. So it’s nice when you don’t have a lot of time for a long gaming session; you can get into the game complete a few levels (or in case of the later levels, just one), then quit with a sense of accomplishment and also not having to remember too much from one gaming session to the next.
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
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Very fun game! Some levels are absolute stumpers until you realize that one specific little thing…
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
MAYBE I CAN
Hacker olma yolunda ilerliyorsanız bu oyun tam size göre. Çok zor şifrelenmiş metinleri çözerek banka hesaplarını hackleyip para kazanabiliyorsunuz ayrıca geceleri gerilim düzeyi artıyor elimizde bir silah var ve ne ile karşılaşacağımızı bilmiyoruz. oldukça diken üstünde oturup bir yandan bilgisayarımızla haşır neşir olabileceğimiz farklı bir oyun.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Hardwork Simulator
That didn’t work for me. I got caught and got fired for it. They put a younger, prettier assistant in my place. But I doubt she types as fast as I do. They were the ones who lost
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
On the one hand, I really want to give the game a thumbs up for a creative and somewhat neat idea for a really cheap price.
On the other hand, though, I really must give it a thumbs down for not offering much at all, even at this price level plus thirty percent off; because in the end, cheap does just not justify bland.
I do enjoy any just semi-rewarding grinding game for a while, but looking at the short time invested here, I had rather counted cars drive by my window - even if the game had been for free. Where the game mechanics in any way challenging or rewarding, it would be a different story. However, it is random key bashing in it’s dullest form.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
World Wide Hack
World Wide Hack is an MMO simulation game about realistic hacking and cybersecurity for the Web, PC, and Mac. You hack into the leaked system of QuanTech company and, with other hackers, reveal their secrets while exploring experimental open-world networks.
Manipulate corporations' and inhabitants' lives by hacking their computers, observe the consequences of your actions and decide if you want to protect or exploit this world.
Collect the most effective sets of hacking and security tools, gather assets, and improve your computer to hack others, control parts of the network, or create the best websites and tools which will help other hackers and make you rich! Work with others to make your experimental activities useful for your faction and lead with them the world in the right direction.
Find out how easily some can manipulate many and how powerful but dangerous control over the information can be…
The game is in early access, so please be aware that the game still requires lots of bug fixing, polishing, and content and mechanics of the game can change.
Key Features
FUN YET AUTHENTIC HACKING
Real-life hacking and security tools which are authentic yet modified to be fun and created with several options to strategize
DECISIONS AND CONSEQUENCES
Use your power to manipulate the life of the game characters and corporates, which have various problems and stories and, in the end, affect the world balance.
RICH DYNAMIC STORY WITH REPLAYABILITY
Engaging main story and mini-stories in quests bring the player new perspectives on world problems. Discover different views of two factions, finding unique pieces with every gameplay.
REALISTIC ATMOSPHERE
From the first contact with the QuanTech application, you are pulled into a realistic atmosphere of the corporate environment and their secret quantum experiments, where nothing breaks your immersion.
COOPERATE, COMPETE OR GO SOLO
Full of puzzles in competitive and cooperative quests, playable in both multiplayer and solo-like gameplay with your decision of involving in PvP and area control fights
LEARN ABOUT CYBERSECURITY
Experience living futuristic IT context emphasizing the importance of cybersecurity. Find yourself surrounded by other players passionate about technological progress and innovations, learning about the impact of technology on modern society.
Join our Discord community here: https://discord.gg/Mpy9hbR
Analogue: A Hate Story
As VNs go I feel really conflicted about Analogue. There were a handful of elements I was really impressed by, but ultimately I don’t recommend it. It’s frustration incarnate; more time invested in it brings the opposite of a sense of reward.
Analogue is a VN showcase of interesting ideas that are never seen through to their full potential. The setting is barebones, any mystery of the events on the lost colony ship doesn’t have any real contrast with the experience of the player’s blank slate agent; indeed throughout the game I felt the real mystery was finding out what was normality outside of the ship.
– Real player with 17.6 hrs in game
There’s no doubt that Steam has been flooded, for better or worse, by visual novels as of late.
Now, don’t get me wrong, Indie titles are great, but amidst the endless stream of “waifu”-bait visual novels (VNs) you’ll see here on Steam, I think you’ll be hard-pressed to find many decent stories with an intriguing plot that aren’t about getting in a girl’s pants for an affordable price. That’s par for the course when discussing visual novels, but that’s also why I tend to trust VNs from well-known studios/devs, because at least you know you’ll get plot while playing VNs of acclaim like Clannad, the Grisaia Trilogy, or The Devil on G-String in exchange for their premium price.
– Real player with 12.7 hrs in game
Code.Breaker()
Code.Breaker() is a cyberpunk visual novel about technology, crime, and trying to survive in a world ruled by corporations.
Setting
2083, Free City-State of Seattle. Augmentations are commonplace, most people at least having a brain-computer interface chipped in. Sentient Androids live amongst the population, together with genetically modified humans and cybernetically enhanced people.
The corporations fight with other corporations over their bottom line, both figuratively and literally, making it a hotspot for so-called “Ronin”. These “Ronin” are modern-day mercenaries doing the dirty work for anyone who can pay them, most of the time corporations.
Story
You take the role of a hacker working for Akiyama CyberTech as a “Network Security Expert”. Your job is to keep the Seattle branch office safe from outside intrusion and the network security of the building in shape. It’s a mostly ceremonial position to fulfill legally required human quotas, which you only got through nepotism.
In truth you were born without citizenship in the slums of Redmond and honed your skills in the underground hacking scene.
One day, you get an email from an anonymous sender who knows your secret, threatening the life you’ve built up.
Now it’s up to you to take back control!
Gameplay
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Talk to colleagues and make decisions that matter
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Point and click on background items to get more information about your environment
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Hack into systems by quickly solving puzzles
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Play through a thrilling office story where you defend yourself from the shadows of your past
Project DeepWeb
bit of a brain teaser and im stuck, but im sufficiently intrigued to try and figure it out
update: i finished the game, would definitely recommend
– Real player with 18.1 hrs in game
Very good game, full of difficult puzzles.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
HACK_IT
i think the most positive thing i can say about this game is that i don’t have to play it anymore. ever. if you wanted to build a prison where you’d want to exclusively punish hackers for their crimes, i would put this game there and make them play it for an hour every day for like…a day…because honestly…anything more would be against the geneva convention..if you had to complete this game before you could receive bitcoin cybercrime would end tomorrow..
i wonder what dan, the credited developer of this game, was thinking when he built this. honestly, i was thinking about the various boring sequences and what it would be like to “test” this game..did he have some “speed” mode? did he maybe write a whole scripted subsystem that dynamically generates this game so he doesn’t have to actually run it ever?
– Real player with 39.7 hrs in game
This game does not give an accurate picture of the skills that are required to hack.
I myself am a Hacker, and not once did I see a Ping, DDOS or Kracker accuratly carry out an attack.
Hacking can be broken down in to three catigories;
Black Hat Hackers
Grey Hat Hackers (me)
White Hat Hacker
Black Hat Hackers hack in to computer systems for illegal purposes, aka, to steal money.
Grey Hat Hackers are freelance, we hack in to websites to expose security threats, and report them to the website administrator. We also offer to help resolve security threats that we find.
– Real player with 33.4 hrs in game
Nothing To Remember
First off, don’t look at the hours on record, I may have left the game open between streams. Overall a decent visual novelish game. The main story events were good, the relationships were mediocre and made me wish I could ban Dick’s number so I could skip that part of the story. There is a critical choice later in the game that isn’t worded correctly and should be fixed, they either meant to add “don’t” at the beginning of the sentence or were was meant to be “weren’t” which I assumed and made that my choice.
– Real player with 96.8 hrs in game
Plot is very well written and character development is exquisite. More of a visual novel with major choices. It took me about 20 hours for an ending.
– Real player with 40.1 hrs in game