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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I cautiously recommend this game. The atmosphere is great. It does capture the surreal feel of both its premise and y2k-era computing at large. However, that atmosphere does not translate over to an actual good story: without going into spoilers, the third act seems rushed, with stakes rapidly escalating and de-escalating in a way that doesn't feel fully set-up. This isn't an issue of length per se: I don't mind an adventure game like this being short, it's moreso how the nuts-and-bolts story ends up going. The result is a world that feels incredibly interesting, but a story that does not justify its own world. Nonetheless, this is a fun adventure game with an interesting setting and an addictive core loop that I think people will enjoy.
Went into this thinking it was going to be a silly game about going through the early days of the internet, and exploring through all the strange but creative web pages made by its quirky users that reside it, to literally tearing up at the end with what becomes of them in the final act. So sad dreamsettler got cancelled but i hope this type of game inspires others in the future
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 837 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Do you miss surfing GeoCities, Angelfire, Myspace and seeing what people created there? The often unreadably designed sites? Music blaring at you the moment you hit the page? Little pets floating around your screen needing constant care? I know all of that sounds bad, but that's nostalgia for you! And that's what you're going to get with Hypnospace Outlaw. The game is, in essence, navigating an entirely fictional recreation of those personal pages the internet used to be mostly made up of. As you are returning with a bit more power than most of us had in those days, your journey through Hypnospace will be more about playing detective than seeing what a simulacrum of your friends are getting up to. And there's SO MUCH to look through. The amount of music, grafix, and sheer words created for this little alternate history internet is simply mind-blowing! There's hundreds upon hundreds of pages - released a little at a time of course - along with several viruses to catch and backgrounds to download and little games to play. Not all of them are good, but that is also the point. Each are surprisingly earnest reproductions of a place and time. Which is all the stranger for a game based around the earth-shattering technology of an internet you can only surf while you sleep. Very little attention is paid to this fact... before the endgame. I would have liked more than the occasional mentions of headbands and waking up tired to place Hypnospace outside of the real world, but the concept does, finally, get a terribly satisfying look by the end.
The internet used to be so chaotic, but there was a certain charm to it. People were weird, but they were real. When I first played this game, I was expecting a silly 90's internet nostalgia simulator. And I did get that! It was a delight surfing the web and learning about all these people, from their interests to the communities they're in. In fact, the gameplay was so immersive that I sometimes forgot that I'm not actually on my desktop. There is so much customization on how you want your desktop to be that it really felt like I was on my computer. From choosing what special mouse cursor I want, to downloading almost every file I see (Internet safety? What's that?). Make no mistake, however, this game is more than just a silly simulation. Go into it completely blind. Explore and learn. That is how to enjoy the game and the story it will present to you. I felt a mix of emotions while playing. Nostalgia, excitement, sadness, and even frustration. All of which, was because of how well-crafted the characters were within the game. The ending left me feeling empty inside as I processed what I just witnessed. Overall, please give Hypnospace Outlaw a chance. It will surprise you!
Can I say this is one of my all-time favorite games? Genuinely? In the history of ever? The amount of detail is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane; Hypnospace Outlaw is one of -- if not *the* -- most intricate games I've ever had the pleasure of playing. It's a pain in the ass at times, yes, but I'd say the positives outweigh the negatives by a long shot. I didn't even know of GeoCities or anything relating to the old web before I saw this game (curse me, I'm too young!) and this game is much more than a love letter to those times, I'd say. I wish we could've got to see Dreamsettler, but this and Slayers X is more than enough for me.
It's so hard to talk about this game and really highlight everything about it. There's just so much in such a little game. I just really like sitting back and reading every little website, connecting every single character relationships, and listening to all the music made for this game. There's just nothing like this. Absolute masterpiece of a game.
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Genuinely my favourite game of all time. If I could make everyone in the world play it, I would. The characters feel so human and the world feels so thought through. I have been into this game for just about 5 years now, I think? And it introduced me to so many new and wonderful people. It is an important part of my life and a huge inspiration to me and it always will be :-)
A delightful indie game that doesn't solely rely on the "late 90's web-surfing" nostalgia
An ode to a by-gone era, truly. What a wonderful little game.
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