Разработчик: Tendershoot
Описание
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!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: Windows 10, 11
- Processor: 1.4GHz processor or faster
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated graphics should be fine
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- OS: Windows 10, 11
- Processor: 1.4GHz processor or faster
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA or AMD dedicated graphics with 1GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Mac
- OS: Mac OS 10.7+
- Processor: Intel i5 Ivy Bridge
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel Iris Pro Graphics
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- OS: Mac OS 10.9+
- Processor: Intel i5 Haswell
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA or AMD dedicated graphics with 1GB VRAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 / SteamOS
- Processor: Intel i5 Ivy Bridge
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel Iris Pro Graphics
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 / SteamOS
- Processor: Intel i5 Haswell
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA or AMD dedicated graphics with 1GB VRAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
One of the best point and click games I've ever played, Hypnospace quietly became a home and a wayback machine to the great late 90s Internet, and it was pretty sad to let it go, I'm not gonna lie.
Plus... that ending... you just have to experience it, man.
A well-realized world with fun puzzles, knowledge-based gameplay, wonderful music and fun exploration. All in HypnoOS!
Welcome to Hypnospace, an amalgam of the the "old internet", full of music, tantalising secret pages, millions of skeleton GIFs, and so on. And your job? A volunteer moderator. Spend hours browsing random pages, or focusing just as your duty as one of the many volunteer moderators, or listening to wonderful (and sometimes grating!) music, and all of that. It comes packed with customization options, secrets to discover, and witty and moving writing.
One thing you can do which you couldn't do in the past is: turn off auto-play music on webpages.
The game comes packaged with a personal page-maker and a music maker. Some of the screen effects may be grating on your eyes, though playing it in the window helps.
It's one of my favourite games of all time. It made me reflect on the past internet, the current internet, and the future. It has a lot to say in many often-clever words.
this game has made me audibly laugh, yell, and cry. one of the most perfect and unique games ever made.
hypnospace outlaw is an insane game. trying to write a proper review is like trying to explain spongebob to someone who has never seen spongebob except that they also have no concept of sponges or other sea creatures 10/10 on the spongebob scale amazing writing, incredible page navigation action, and loads of charm
Pretty darn good
Basically Internet Rabbithole - The Game
Love the music, the story is pretty good
I saw on the developer's website that he said the game was basically just a way to get people to listen to his music and I can definitely see that. The music and the subgenres, especially all the weird alt rock ones, and the lore are all so important to the game AND SOO GOOD. Also, I love Chowderman BWL
This game is simultaneously the most unhinged experience ever and also just so real. I wasn't alive in 1999 so the nostalgia factor is close to non-existent for me, but its still just such an interesting and accurate representation of people and their Internet shenanigans. And subcultures. I just, and I am repeating myself here, love the music lore.
It's just so easy to get lost in random facets of all these people's lives.
The post game stuff is wayyy too tedious though unless I'm missing sth
I get that it's supposed to be an old Internet browser, and the clunkiness mostly does have its charm, helps the immersion, and is not too bothersome, but the clicking through everything that you've already read, just to make sure that you got it in every iteration is where it gets a bit too annoying.
I'm not a fan of 100%ing games anyway, but I do wanna find all the cool fun pages and the music (like 100 songs BWL) that I'm still missing, but its pretty hard too tell what is actually a yet unseen cool fun page and what is just page that I've already seen in this exact version but just not in year x yet.
An incredible work of art that beautifully captures the creativity, imagination and wonder that the early internet encapsulated.
The sheer depth to this game's world that the developers created for this is just insane. It is so immersive with layer and layers of mysteries waiting to be discovered in it.
I wish the main game was a bit longer and there were more cases to be solved. I also personally thought that some of the cases towards the end were a bit *too* difficult, and I had to cave in and look at a guide for some parts.
All in all, I love Tendershoot's works between this and Slayers X. They speak to early gen-z/millennials in a way that no other games out there do. Incredibly excited for the sequel to this, Dreamsettler.
Hypnospace Outlaw is a vaporware game in which you play by navigating through a 90's style Internet desktop. Your goal is to report any violations found in the cyberspace and browse through web pages in order to progress.
The game is incredibly immersive and the user interface feels so real. It manages to capture aspects of what a desktop should feel like when using it. You can download music, programs, and images in the game through a download manager. You can click on hyperlinks to navigate to different pages and even has the feature where wiggling your mouse makes stuff load faster like in the old days.
I love how well the game parodies the old Windows operating systems along with its company, Microsoft. There is a story underneath it all as you progress and you can slowly uncover each of the cyberspace users' stories while you browse their pages. The gameplay is heavily based on how well you can browse through the Internet and there is a lot of thinking involved on how to approach certain cases.
Overall, it's a pretty cool game.
Hypnospace Outlaw could have so easily been a cheap trick. It could've secretly been a horror game the whole time. It could have blindsided us with a view of the internet so desolate, so cynical that its genuine hope is for us to log off forever. It did not do these things. Instead, shockingly and beautifully, it represents a love letter to the internet, as it once was, and as it can be, given the right people. The internet is not an organism malicious in nature. It is an invention that boldly attempted, and in some ways succeeded, to solve one of humanity's biggest flaws: our lack of worldliness. It urges us to connect, and to listen, and to care. It does not require these things, as is apparent, but it wishfully whispers them to us regardless. Thank you, internet, for granting me the wealth of knowledge that makes me who I am today; and thank you, Hypnospace Outlaw, for reminding me to thank the internet.
Confusing but very fun! will probably need to look up where to go next but that's kinda charming for me Lol
also just amazing art direction, absolutely jaw-dropping
One of the most creative games I've ever played. Loved the aesthetics. 100% would 100% again.
So many wild and weird personalities appear on the internet, every page you see will fascinate, shock or make you laugh with how absurd everything can be on this game
Definitely go in blind and read as little about it to experience the best this game has to offer
this game is great. took me a while on some of the passwords you need, it was fun figuring them out. i love this game!
One of the most poignant and inventive games I've ever played. I haven't had this much fun exploring a video game world in ages. Character writing is impeccable and the soundtrack is outstanding. Go in knowing as little as possible and just have fun exploring Hypnospace and the insane amount of detail packed into absolutely everything. Cannot wait for Dreamsettler.
An excellent, extremely well put together 90's Internet simulator with an interesting story.
I thought the overarching story could have been executed better in some areas, particularly the ending, which felt very anticlimactic, but even if it had no story at all, it would still be an easy recommend.
There was a lot of thought put into every aspect of the game and its hundreds of pages that most players probably won't even see half of. The game does an outstanding job with making its lore/world and characters feel real. There's a page with paragraphs of text explaining over a dozen different fictional music genres with actual songs for every one. There's a fan page for a fictional TV show with lengthy episode and character summaries. There are numerous musicians with their own sites and entire downloadable albums and discographies that you can listen to in your fake desktop's music player.
Even if it's not your thing, I don't think anyone can dispute that the developers deserve some kind of award for the many hours of work they put into creating such a believable facsimile of the late 90's Internet.
Also, FutureRecycler is incredibly underrated and one of my favourite pages. You should definitely check it out if you play this game.
This is my new favorite game
this game is a masterpiece when i first installed this game i expected a game that would have little storyline and be purely based on the gimmick of 1990's internet but i was surely mistaken it has one of the most developing stories in any game i have played the characters having multiple reactions to different things in game done also the music is beautiful the fact it has a nearly 5 hour long sound track for such a small game in comparison to AAA games who have shorter sound tracks in incredible also the music in the game is actual awesome with multiple genres and people who. make the music in-game and the stories of the fans and the creators are just incredible the feelings you have to the character and the connections you build with them you go on a rollercoaster of emotions
i can not suggest this game more
-Tomski
Damn. One of the best from this genre of investigation games based on 90s interfaces i played. Knows how to be funny, intriguing, clever and endearing. Loved it
Dark, twisted and amazing story, well designed and very creative. I need more.
of the "observe and condemn strangers for their choices on a fake internet" games, this is one of my favorites!!! it's as close to do not feed the monkeys and the sequel as I have found, there isn't much moralizing, and there are some interesting puzzles and tidbits hidden in here!!
One of my favourite gaming experiences ever.
Visually unique. Short and sweet. Nice online moderator simulator. A throwback to an era I am too young to personally remember very well. Buy it. Play it. Enjoy it.
The game picks up insanely in the 3rd and 4th act, until then its already great but damn the game leaves a lasting impression. Never before have I played a game where I thought I already knew what was going on, only to have the truth be revealed in a way that was slightly hinted at but not also instantly guessable. Play this game blind, you won't regret it.
It captures that childhood magic of being a kid in the late 90s/early 2000s and going to an internet cafe or to a neighbour who's parents are rich and who has a PC. The internet reveals itself to you for the first time in its cheesy, endearing and clumsy early form, filled with all kinds of weird and new possibilities. When nobody you knew had seen this kind of stuff before, and even looking at an animated character on your screen was fresh and interesting.
And you pester your parents until they get you a second-hand thing that can barely run win95 and has no cd-rom, but now at least you get to play around with so many images and little games and funky 90's animations. Maybe you download some angsty '99 music and try those silly wallpaper themes and cursors that mattered back then, when customizing every little window or widget felt important and personal.
And then you get a ton of viruses.
Never written a steam review, probably never will again. I love this game, buy it.
One of the only games I have finished in one day and my only regret was that I relied so much on walkthroughs. Other than that this game is phenomenal and has so much for everyone. You know when Dankpods was reviewing the Grado headphones and said it was like he expected to watch The Skateboard Kid except he left crying. That was me with this game, what a heel turn and what a beautifully sad ending.
10/10
This is such a charming game, there's so much to find, the story is compelling, and the concepts are fascinating. It's not very long but you can spend a long time trying to find everything. 5/5 shells
One of my favorite games of all time. It's so charming and the soundtrack is amazing. Bought it here even though I already have it on my switch just to show support to the devs.
Very fun! A little overwhelming at first, but I found my bearings very quickly and had a great time. The whole game is overflowing with character, and it's so impressive how much the devs managed to convey about people you never speak to just through the way they present themself online. Definitely a game that requires patience and thoroughness, and you'll probably want a notepad too.
I hope the sequel to this game irons out all the annoying kinks. This could've been something greater, but I just don't think it stuck the landing. I was too often being sidetracked by all the little things that were meant to immerse me, but instead had the opposite effect. I often found myself wanting to tab out and return to the normal world of the normal internet, but this still in the end was gripping enough to keep me engaged for a decent chunk of time.
What I thought would just be silly nostalgia-based entertainment turned out to be a very well-written game. I recommend it to anyone who wants to remember the early days of the Internet, have fun with all the funny content, explore a fictional operating system, download lots of interesting original music "illegally", etc., and while doing all this, discover the story of characters you'll become attached to.
in the hypno space. straight up "shonking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My t-nubs.
Great story, loved looking through the pages even if it didn't bring me closer to the end goal.
A great find with the type of story that can only be experienced in video game format. A little short overall, and the various game stages never overstay their welcome. The game features mostly investigative point-and-click puzzles that are challenging without being too hard with plenty of humor, a solid story, and a great cast. Definitely sticks with you after the end too. As all the other reviews say, don't look at spoilers, it's best experienced blind!
A funny yet accurate depiction of the early internet forums, viruses, content, everything. Such a fun game for me to dive into without knowing much and so many cool things to see. I plan on getting the achievements I didn't now, and just mess around as well just because of how vast the "internet" inside the game is. The gameplay of it is pretty pleasurable, especially if you like puzzles, thinking, detective work and similar stuff. A huge recommendation from me to everyone in general!
Give it a shot if you like adventure games or stuff like yume nikki very trippy and fun and I really enjoy just chilling and surfing the web
Not only is it one of the most unique videogames, in more ways than one, that I've ever seen, but it executes these concepts flawlessly. There is so much personality, even though the only gameplay is just a simulation of browsing the web from a time that I haven't lived through. People who had used the internet in the 90s might even get nostalgic from this game.
I wasn't expecting there was going to be an overarching plot, and neither was I expecting to get this emotional from it.
My only problem is that I found it kind of hard to progress at some points, and I consulted a walkthrough a couple of times. Maybe that's kind of a me problem, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, and I kind of have to give the developer props for not insulting the players' intellignece.
Also, HOT DAD IS IN THE GAME! I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT EITHER!
It's a weird mystery game that's the perfect embodiment of pre-millennium internet. The only thing it's missing from back then is all the genitals...
So many surprise bits and bobs back then...
Anyway, try it out!
Despite the fact you never directly speak to another human or even see them (in person), Hypnospace Outlaw has one of the best cast of characters in any game I've played, as well as one of my favorite endings. It's also just in general one of the most immersive games I've ever played. One of those experiences where by the end you know it's world so well it becomes second nature (I accidently said beefbrain in real life without even thinking about it). I loved this game so much when I originally played it that I even learned basic HTML/CSS and made my own webpage, which I think speaks to it's quality and impact.
The less you know about where it goes the better, just play it.
Buy the game for the fun simulated internet, don't buy it for the puzzles.
The puzzles are SO specific, that it doesn't make sense how anyone was supposed to find out what to do. The game gives you tons of webpages, and expects you to know which specific link to click? Even with the Professor Helper part, I read from a webpage not to download it as it's a virus. Ok, I won't then. Turns out you need to in order to progress. Really?
Everything else is awesome, the soundtracks made, the webpage designs, the story, It's all awesome. If only the puzzles were too.
Dropsy was a blast, but this one is even better. I like the fact that this game doesn't mock a certain visual style, but rather recreates it quite accurately, while creating a set of characters that one thinks about after the game is over.
Story: ★★★★☆
Music: ★★★☆☆
Gameplay: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★★☆
Web design is my passion
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
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☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
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☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
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☐ Eargasm
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☐ I'm now deaf
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☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
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☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
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☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
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☐ Just press 'W'
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☑ Significant brain usage
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☐ Dark Souls
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☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
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☐ Some lore
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☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
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☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
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☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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not just some nostalgia bait gimmick game. Genuinely really funny, great music, pretty good puzzles, and so many entertaining stories between characters that you just discover through naturally digging deeper into a community to find out more and watching peoples web pages evolve. Everything about this game and all of its side content has so much creativity, personality and humor behind it, 9/10
Played very shortly after playing The Talos Principle's DLC "Road to Gehenna". I want more of this. There is something magical and humanizing to me about stories around these sorts of digital communities. I don't know how to explain it, but to say that maybe growing up on the internet lends itself to dehumanization of others and even the self. Seeing stories like this makes it feel better and more okay to be alive while also not being perfect.
Well i like the 2000 vibe, but i always search for the guide because i don't know what to do lol. Especially when i have to report something to Sam in the epilog, i don't know how to report it.
This game really captures early internet culture very well, and I loved the internet exploration gameplay. There are often multiple ways you can come across or uncover necessary content to moderate, using creativity and exploration to come across what you need as well as hidden secrets. The amount of side content not necessary to the main story is insane, and you feel rewarded every time you find a free wallpaper, song or secret file to add to your collection. Sometimes you see websites and people change overtime, adding to the lively internet feel. I loved digger deeper and deeper into underground internet territory, file sharing and hacker group stuff included. It would be best to go in this one blind, but I wouldn't hold it against you if you peeked at a guide when you are stuck after giving it a fair shot. Seriously cool game, it really is an amazing experience.
Hypnospace Outlaw is one of the most unique games I have ever played. The sheer levels of detail and content put into this product is astonishing. It can be very difficult but even me, who is pretty bad at puzzles, love this game. Definitely recommend to anyone who has an appreciation for the internet.
Amazing experience, I would highly recommend to anyone. Quite emotional with fully fledged out characters and a great atmosphere.
great game all around, very human
the ending hits pretty heavy considering the rest of the games tone
the mindcrash conspiracy that can be uncovered during the modern day epilogue is pretty interesting too since you have to dig through pages that were accessible during the whole game but not conveyed directly to the player
An ode to the internet that was.
This game replicated that feeling of being a teenager in the mid 2000's and browsing random peoples websites incredibly well, and told a very compelling narrative through the medium.
Rather fun game. Computer does a bit weird with the running of it, but that's not the fault of the game itself. A must-play for every enjoyer of 90's aesthetics (a demographic which includes me).
Hypnospace Outlaw is a perfect snapshot of a world that could've been, it perfectly emulates the utter chaos of the (then new) internet, it also perfectly emulates the greed and naivety of companies that, to this day, fuck users over for marginally higher quarterly profits.
But that's not what makes it special, the game is simply really, really well written, the characters on there are more real than anyone you've ever met on Instagram or Facebook or whatever new social media site they are using nowadays, there's happiness, whimsy, joy, and true, unfettered sorrow.
This will stick with me forever, I feel.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Tendershoot |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 30.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 83 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 97% положительных (3671) |