Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
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Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the corporatocracy sleeps, outlaws are out there committing terrible transgressions all across our beloved Hypnospace, and these virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
Hypnospace Outlaw is a '90s internet simulator in which you scour Hypnospace's wide variety of weird and wonderful websites to hunt down wrongdoers, while also keeping an eye on your inbox, avoiding viruses and adware, and downloading a plethora of apps that may or may not be useful.
As part of your job as a Hypnospace Enforcer, you'll be watching out for copyright infringement, internet bullying and more, with reports and rewards coming direct from the Hypnospace Patrol Department to your inbox. In your spare time, you can customize your HypnOS desktop however you see fit, with a variety of downloads, wallpapers, screen savers and helper bots to keep you company.
So slip on your Hypnospace Headband™, and keep these key directives in mind:
Crawl through Cyberspace: Scour the darkest corners of the Web for scumbag users who violate Hypnospace law!
Dangers and delights: Download groovy GIFS and MIDI files, but watch out for adware, toolbars and hackers!
Treasure hunting: Do your job to earn Hypnocoins, or ignore your inbox and go hunting for hidden pages, downloads and secrets!
Relive your childhood: Equip obnoxious screensavers and skins for your desktop, and wiggle your mouse pointer around to make pages load faster!
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 5.6Kreviews | 97% | — | $3.2M |
| $19.99 | 152ratings | 93% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
I loved this experience, I love the whole "vaporwave" nostalgia, old computer vibe. I like the story as well. Just upset 100%ing this game is so hard
If you're feeling any sort of nostalgia for the early days of the internet and love puzzle games, this is for you! It's a love letter to 90s internet. The layout of the game is customizable, down to the sound effects when you click. I love the color schemes, the skins on the music player, and the different wallpapers the most! Story wise, I loved the midpoint so much I replayed it three times. I did miss a few things on my initial play that I had to go back and try to find, and there were some points I did have to look up a walkthrough. This didn't really detract how much I was enjoying the game because I enjoyed the feeling of it so much. I would have to closely look at each page to find the right keywords to search, and sometimes I was going a little too fast and I didn't mentally connect some of the story points together, but I feel like that's more of a Me thing. There are plenty of low spoiler walkthroughs out there, which I appreciated! There's some screen distortion effects that trigger if you click on certain things, and they won't go away until you find the right thing to get rid of it (though I think there is a way around it, some walkthroughs do mention this). Just a heads up if you're sensitive to those sort of things! There is reading involved because of the old internet/forum/GeoCities layout; that's the whole point of the game. I loved peeking into the lives of the different main characters through their updates to their pages. It's a LOT that you can dig into at your own pace. You can go as slow as you want while digging into everything, but there are parts of the story you're not able to go back to later. I definitely recommend taking your time looking through it all. Overall, the feel and layout of the game is very nostalgic and immersive. The story pulled me right in too, especially when emails popped into my inbox! It's got plenty of humor, it has it's fair share of emotional moments where I really felt for the characters, and there's some tense moments that had me going "oh sh*t!". I 100%ed the game because I felt like a kid again browsing the old internet. PLEASE play this game!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 844 reviews with recorded playtime.
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i love this game SO much!!! please consider getting this game if you haven't already.
Fun game, especially for those who enjoy online detective style searching. I loved how the game didn't hold my hand! Also, I appreciate the 90's vibe <3
//SPOILERRRRR ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DYLANNNNNNNNNNNNNN
my god, what a beautifully made game. is it such a joy to explore and read everyone's webpages, which only highlights the quality of writing and graphics. on top of that, the music is superb. the fact that they conceptualize a whole history of music and it's evolution with ACCOMPANYING MUSIC is a feat in of itself. i need the glamocastor album and i need dirthaze to be even more real (someone reccommend me more shoegaze, i beg of you). i played this game twice. once to play it blind, another to 100% the achievements, and yet i still come back to it missing it. missing it for an era i've never experienced, but feel nostelgia for nonetheless.
hell yeah
My eyes can't take it anymore Good game, shame the sequel's cancelled
Thought it was just a 90's internet-themed funpost game and oh boy how naive and wrong I was to think that way...
[h1] TLDR: please play this game. it's good. especially if you like silly puzzles that make you feel smart 🤗 [/h1] just finished this game and i'm honestly not sure what to say. i write a whole lot about media i love but i never really write things like steam reviews, i never really thought to do so. but this time i felt like i had to, especially after finding out the creator (jay tholen) had made another game that i really love, dropsy. i'll try to make this as spoiler free as possible, so sorry if i let a little detail loose or something. this game is super unique! i don't recall ever playing a game where you get to browse the internet (or rather a version of it) like this, it was super fun playing detective with all the silly little pages. i even liked the viruses, it was a super nice touch that made things feel a little more real. i love all the silly music, the stickers you can collect, the little minigames. i loved going through every page and learning about the users. chowderman is my favorite character. i don't care if it's annoying, that shaving song is good as hell despite everything. i will die before slandering chowderman!! (you can skip this paragraph if you want it's really just me yapping) i didn't expect this game to make me cry, but the ending left me [spoiler] feeling crazy as hell. i didn't really like dylan from the start, but the way he handled things made me so angry. despite how much he worked, and how it did feel like, i don't know, one of the few ways he could've apologized, it felt almost... mocking. seeing the tags of the victims was shocking enough, but to see them fly upwards with the log saying that they have "ascended", i felt sick to my stomach. reading the text files at the end made it even worse. [/spoiler] what a character, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. on the characters in general, i didn't expect to get attached, to [i] any [/i] of them, but man, i really did. i've never written a steam review before so i feel like some of this is improper, or like i'm writing a "review" wrong. but after finishing it i really wanted to share my feelings, especially to the people who worked on this game. plenty of games stick with me, but this one was really special. like i said before it felt unique, and surprisingly made me feel a lot of emotions. it was more than just a "silly old web" type thing. i felt sad some times, i felt angry, even disgusted. and of course video games are going to make you feel things, but i genuinely didn't expect things to go the way they did. but i'm glad, i'm glad i was able to play this. i wanted to say thank you to the developers, and to jay tholen especially for yet another game that will stay close to my heart. dropsy means a lot to me, so it was a pleasant surprise to find out he made this one too! :) thanks for reading my silly little review. ヾ(￣▽￣) p.s thank you for introducing me to hot dad
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