Hacknet

narrative puzzle game disguised as a hacker sim, but said narrative is extremely captivating. worth a playthrough if you're even slightly interested from what you've seen on the store page.

highly reminiscent of uplink, but with more emphasis on knowing command line as opposed to managing a GUI of apps. no permadeath like in uplink, and some scenarios that happen in uplink that would've resulted in your save being nuked are intentional and part of the narrative/gameplay. some commands in-game are aliased to similar real life counterparts (the port "probe" command can be executed with "nmap") which is cute.

Sound design is subtle but impactful—the ambient electronic soundtrack and occasional notification sounds create a sense of urgency and immersion without overwhelming the player.

there are some issues, such as the aforementioned aliases not working fully for other commands, tab completion not being fully implemented (cannot tab complete folder paths, just command names), folder paths from root don't start with a trailing slash, which results in strange behaviour (and makes moving files frustrating!), and from what i've seen around the forums and steam discussions for this game, there are quite a few unpatched game breaking bugs. the game is also starting to have trouble on modern systems (it is 10 years old!), so i'd say give it a playthrough before it becomes any harder to run. windows version works great, mac version freezes up after a couple minutes of gameplay on apple silicon-based macs, but theoretically should still work great on intel currently, and have not tried linux version yet myself, but know friends who had a great crash free experience on there.