You will know I'm right within the 2 hour window to return it for a full refund, I assure you. If you don't believe me and this matters to you, buy the game and try it. well I just think it doesn't take an expert to realize it's about as unrealistic as you can get. But even if you have never seen either a vtty or Hackers, I feel like anyone looking at the animation for the command called "porthack", god and the command name itself, and how it works, and everything related to the actual process of hacking (kinda the core concept in the entire game). If I stated what I consider my qualifications for knowing what constitutes "Hollywood-style" hacking, nobody would believe me, so I won't. Oh, and this wouldn't bother me in the slightest - I love Hollywood-style hacking sim games! - but it clearly says this in the "Features" section in the game's Steam page description, which to me is blatant false advertisement:īased on actual UNIX commands, Hacknet focuses on real hacking, not the Hollywood-style version of it. Some tools are named the same as real ones, and you will probably learn a few real UNIX system port numbers, but that's about where the realism ends. It does it very well, and it references real hacking concepts in the game's flavor text and other areas. The first issue isn't so bad and is easily rectified: This game is the pinnacle of Hollywood-style hacking. But anyway, the game was extremely fun, looks great, the music is great, and I'm excited to keep playing and see where things take me.īut there are two issues which were severe enough that they prompted me to leave a negative review despite all this. I had already made a backup of that file just in case. Oh, the event thing that I can't discuss without giving spoilers, but well, the one where you need to get that thing back, that was super fun! (Unimportant to the review and a spoiler:) I instinctively jumped to my host and forkbombed, apparently I was supposed to kill his forkbomb instead, oh well. Despite my negative review, I don't regret this decision at all, it's a very, very fun game. So fast that I immediately bought the DLC, soundtrack, and DLC soundtrack for myself, then bought the game and DLC for both my wife and her boyfriend also. The pacing was really good, and I got hooked fast. That was cool, and I'll probably compile it later to have that tool on my PC for real (don't comment about the related real life security to this - I assure you I already know, and it's just for fun). I liked seeing the C# source code and realizing it was actual, real C# source code that would probably work if the LESS_THAN was properly changed to a "<" sign, etc (C# is my main dev language, always a plus to see it referenced in a game at all). It was fun and helpful to see some things I recognize from real life, such as the default system port numbers being accurate and the existence of a few UNIX commands (my main OS has been FreeBSD for years, and my experience with UNIX helped with the gameplay in a way that felt good). It is probably the funnest hacking-themed game I've ever played, and I've played a lot of them. There's a "TL DR" at the end if you're lazy. In contrast to my usual, I have enabled comments on this review - feel free to state your feedback, whether you agree with me or not, just please remain respectful to me, the developers, other commenters, and anyone else as applicable. I very rarely review games on Steam, and only review the ones about which I am most passionately moved, positively or negatively. This is an extremely fun game, don't get me wrong, but I have two very major issues with it (especially the second one) that have prompted me to leave a negative review.
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