
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
Revenue comes from in-game items and microtransactions, which our price-based model doesn't estimate. The player count below is how many people own it, not what they spent.
About
After 5 years of development, contributions from hundreds of developers, the critically acclaimed open source programming hacking sim is available on Steam.
Inspired by games like Else Heart.break(), Hacknet, Uplink, and Deus Ex, Bitburner is a programming-based idle incremental RPG where you, the player, take the role of an unknown hacker in a dark, dystopian world. The game provides a variety of mechanics and systems that can be changed through coding and solved or automated in whatever way you find suitable.
While a very basic programming background is recommended, it is not required to play the game!
Write scripts in JavaScript to automate your gameplay
Hack through a network of servers to train your abilities and earn money
Solve real programming questions to hone your skills and earn rewards
Improve your character with 100+ Augmentations
Trade in the stock market and write automated trading scripts
Interact with various gameplay mechanics to increase your stats and earn money
Explore the world and discover different companies, locations, and factions
Mini-games
Unlock secret perma-upgrades
Continuing development!
You can play the web version at
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Languages: English
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i am amazed this game is free; it's a lot of fun. I imagine it would be hard for non-technical people years ago, but you can ask ai for help if you get lost. It's like being a hacker and it even keeps working while offline
Очень интересная и необычная игра! Понравилось, что здесь нужно не просто нажимать кнопки, а реально разбираться в программировании, серверах и автоматизации. Сначала кажется сложно, но постепенно начинаешь понимать механику. Затягивает надолго!
Good game if you know little coding you will just fine there so many things to do
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Best programming game on here. Maybe the only programming game on here that actually feels like programming. You do not take on each problem in order and write the canonical solution before moving on to the next one. You prioritize different problems based on how important they are to your run. The game lets you pick what you want to focus on, although at certain points it offers some guidance. Sometimes you will build a naive or greedy solution and then throw money at it to scale it up; sometimes you will write the bare minimum to automate a mechanic and get a little bit of benefit; sometimes you will micro-optimize to shave off as much memory complexity as possible; sometimes you will architect and build a big project with several design patterns. If you're not familiar with JavaScript, many documentation pages have tutorials and example code you can copy. There are also a few public GitHub repos with game scripts, and the Discord has lots and lots of scripts and code examples. And it's an incremental game, so you won't get "stuck" if your scripts aren't optimal.
Wonderful game. It's fun spending time programming a new hacking setup then sitting back and watching the money roll in.
It's pretty fun. I like how it incorporates the command line, actual scripting and programming, figuring out how to automate everything of the sort. Admittedly, I'm rusty with my programming skills, and the game doesn't really handhold you much regarding coding either, so it's either or positive or negative, depending on how lazy or challenging you like things. The grind of the game, while I can't say it's due to skill issue or not, does feel fairly grindy, and you'll be spending a lot of time before you break free and go onto the next ascension mechanic. A lot of time. But it's an idle game, and you literally can log out, delete the game, and if your game is saved to the cloud, you can come back several years later and find out that you're rich. Though, you're never going to be THAT rich with the increasing costs of augments and everything to spend your money on, and the real gains are reputation points while completely gone from the game while doing work in the background. It's definitely worth trying out and playing at least once.
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kinda teaches you some coding stuff so thats good but it does have a lot of stuff u gotta remember
Great game. Practically a piece of art. Even if you don't know how to code, you will if you get hooked :-P
I liked the game, but the game loop it's overwhelming, and, sometimes, frustrating.
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