Darknet

Fun unwinding title, equally chill and intense pseudo roguelite game of hacking increasingly complex networks against the time limit. You enter a mainframe, analyze the network, hack the nodes, buy more viruses to hack the root bode, get BTC to upgrade your future runs, repeat. A standard roguelite format encapsulated with mesmerizing presentation of hollywood hacking.

There's nothing not to love or at least like about this game. A total of over 7 hours in, I still happily go back for a mission or 2 and 'stick it to the man'. As often in hacking games, it narrates the hacking concept, without getting too technical. A mission drops you into a network, a network contains nodes to hack and each node is a (variations on the same) mini-puzzle to take over the node's core. The challenges themselves are easy (and with enough resources) trivial enough, but the time-limit for a mission is what makes the game challenging. All in all a well-balanced setup. I like the fact that each mission has a short description of what you're hacking into for what, and then after completing the mission, a new news-item will reflect this. Nice touch. The graphics are simple enough, but the contrast is perfect and effects are impressive. I'm pretty sure that, (since there's literally elements that are marked as not yet available and there's stuff to unlock) there's depth's in the gameplay I haven't seen yet. So I can't think of stuff I'd want to add or change. All in all: Definitely worth the money for a fun and engaging bit of cyberpunk gameplay. :)