Why Hacknet Is The Best PC Game You Haven't Played

Have you played Hacknet? What other hacking games / or mechanics do you like?

Wow you laid SPOILERS all over the first minute like a flock of filthy pigeons sh@tting on a freshly washed car. WHAT AN A HOLE!

Fun fact: openCDtray was made for a cut multiplayer mode

I genuinely wish Hacknet Multiplayer came to be. Imagine there being several modes, such as Fight and simply Infiltrate, something like a faction-type thing, where the players form the best defence they can and actively work on solving potential backdoors, and the person which survives the match (I'd imagine they're something like multiple day playthroughs)

in Fight, I'd assume there'd be teams or individual, where you find people's computers, hack into them and destroy their files, or do some trolling.
It'd be a great thing to also add something like "Defence Mode", where you quick boot the system in a Defence Mode, allowing you to protect yourself by refreshing your proxies, restarting your firewalls and closing your ports, while you work on counter hacking the enemy computer

i got the game a while ago, played through it all in one sitting yesterday with some friends in a call and all i can say is: if you're even slightly intrigued by this video buy the game, it is so incredibly worth it, all the little tidbits of information scattered across seemingly random devices cluing you in to the main story and most of it's twist add to the immersiveness of this game, it truly is one of the best games i have ever played (and it gets really hectic at times in the best way possible, you feel like a hacker in the movies)

Hi.

your face has this full 3d feel to it. the way most videos do not. really well done

Played this game in 2016 and just finished it again 5 minutes ago. Aside from remembering a few specific missions and trials, the biggest thing that stood out to me was my final moment of accomplishment, hearing Bit's voice again in the end credits and being transported back 7 years, to remind myself: this game is a masterpiece.

It isn't the best story, the gameplay allows you to grow albeit is repetitive, the exploration is minimal (in the main game), the RAM limitation is frustrating and the coding is trivial, but....
the sheer fact that a text based, introductory (limited) coding adventure based coding puzzle - with one of the best soundtracks available - is able to pull at your heartstrings multiple times, just demonstrates the absolute quality, capacity and quantity of this game.
The game gets a 10/10 because of how you walk away from it - amazed by what you experienced, eager for more and wanting to share the experience with your friends.

i beat naix when he hacked me for the first time i got my x-server deleted by myself playing around

Definitely late to the party here, I've had the game for a bit and just picked it up. But it is interesting seeing that your console can get deleted - During the Naix questline, I managed to stop the hack attempt before anything was altered and had no idea there was an alternate path there! I pretty much always had a trap shell set up during hacks after that, thinking it'd happen again.

I just finished it and I feel like you just reviewed a completely different game. LOL Have to go back in now.

i tried playing it but i dont think my brain can handle it and figure it out but id really love to get into it and get good

i was thinking about whether or not to get the game and you've sold me on it,

I wouldn’t say it’s the best game. Fair enough it’s pretty cool for the first 45 minutes but then it just gets repetitive. There’s not really any variety to it. It’s just the same thing over and over.

I just got it today for 1.49€ on steam with big discount. It's hard...

This just came up for sale on Steam. A must buy!

I F*CKING AGREE I HAVE 130 HOURS PLAYTIME!!!

linux users: this is very cash money >:)

I have played it it’s really good game and the soundtrack is awesome

is hacknet that realistic, that u can say u r able to use these commands for "real" hacks? White hat ofc but i wanna learn how to and i hate reading books so im lookin for interactive stuff to practice.

Legit just finished the story today. I'm such a big hacker lover, this small game made me feel big in the hacknet world. There are so many cool details and story aspects that make this game so amazing. Right now the base game is out on steam for $3 (AUS). Had a blast, gonna pick up the dlc soon!

This game gives me A LOT of motivation to became a real hacker, Pentester. Now I'm studying it, and real hacking is AWESOME

I liked Uplink and I heard about this game, it's awesome, too bad we can't make money and upgrade our computer. you ever heard of Grey Hack??

I have played hacknet and I really liked it. Despite it being a text-based game, it was so much fun and gave me a Cypherpunk feel to it all. I though did not buy and install Labyrinths as I was nervous of what that was capable of doing. I didn’t want it fucking my computer up, but I guess it wouldn’t be on the market if it did just that, so it’s just my paranoia keeping me from trying it.

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I'm trying to learn some stuff so I can actually play this, and I've always been in love with coding so this game will be perfect for me.

I recently bought hackmud (I've played hacknet at least 8 times over), and I prefer hackmud. It allows you to write scripts in JS and its multiplayer. I also feel it's more relistic.

Thank you! Loved this!

Spoilers for new players don't watch this review.

The reviewers need to show how smart he is leads to massive spoiler and one of the funniest parts of the game.

This game is friggin phenomenal, especially the Labyrinth section. The final mission was the first time I truly panicked over a game since I was a kid. It's absolutely perfect.

I played the full game with labyrinths and THIS GAME IS F** AWESOME

I would play, but I can’t type fast.

Anyone else looking for hacking games because of Mr. Robot?

This game looks pretty deep. Anyone remember Hacker back in the 80's? I completed it on the commodore 64 in 1986 but I doubt its anywhere near as complex as Hacknet.

The best typing test game

Oh Naiox guy? After I recovered I stole all his shit deleted everything off his main and backup then got rid of all his system files from both devices and then sent him a nice fuck you

You left the ONE LOG showing your IP Address...you amazing mad lad. You let him know that this was personal...not business...ahh...such a good game.

hhhaaaaaa i have played this game

I got this game free on Humble Bundle while in school for IT and ai loved it. I never finished the game but I'd really like to return!

The game is an absolute banger, there are so many revelations behind the premise that you won't see coming but understand completely when it comes. Shit is crazy, especially the finale. And you'll get sucked right into it since the game's premise is that you type things into a computer - which you are doing in real life.
If you're worried about the prompt/how pro it looks, you're literally just opening folders and running .exes. Even if that is too intimidating, there's the GUI where you can just click to open things. I would say the prompt can be considered mostly aesthetic, but once you become used to the commands it's actually more efficient than clicking (just like real life terminals).
If you can search for folders in file explorer, you can play this game. Get it and enjoy yourself. I'd say it's unlike all other games, but the good news is that there's stuff like Uplink and other "hacker games" you can play. So go nuts.

I loved the game until I stupidly removed some important files from the “cookie clicker-game”’s pc, and now i cant progress

I thought it was going to be something like those black market hacking games like "Welcome to the game" and such. Thanks for making a vid on it!

Does this have controller support and co-op? lol

Grey Hack >

Top 5 game I've ever played

the title is really annoying, the top 10 channels that say "you may have" are way better than this title

my 100% achievement on this game disagrees with your title. I love this game. :)

When I got hacked by Naix, after recovering x-server, I actually replied to his email saying: Fuck you!. I was pleasantly surprised with his reply: "Yea, Fuck you too".
Gotta love this type of details 🤩

Matt Tribiani lol