Datascape (2022)

ENG: It is a very unique game, but it requires patience and attention, so I recommend to play it calmly and read everything, it is worth it. Has several phases, basically we hack to get into some cubes and see the programs that are inside, so there is the hacker mini-game and then various puzzle-things you find inside, apart from unlocking parts of a message and better functions to be able to hack more difficult cubes. It's a pretty complete experience, even with voice acting for a pretty cheap price, oh it requires Joystick btw. If anyone has any questions you can ask me in the comments :) - ESP: Es un juego único, pero que requiere paciencia, así que recomiendo jugarlo con calma y leer todo, vale la pena. Básicamente hackeamos para entrar en unos cubos y ver los programas que tienen adentro, por lo que esta el minijuego de hackear y después unas especies de puzzles que te encontras dentro, aparte de vas desbloqueando partes de un mensaje y mejores funciones para poder ir hackeando cubos mas difíciles. Es una experiencia bastante completa, incluso con actuación de voz por un precio bastante barato, ah y requiere Joystick. Si alguien tiene alguna duda me puede preguntar en los come…

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If you have ever read "Neuromancer" by William Gibson or other similar sci-fi / hacking novels, this game is what I imagine the most accurate representation of cyberspace to be. While the 'hacking' might be a bit repetitive after a bit, the difficulty scaling is good enough to provide a sizeable challenge. I have to admit, the game is a bit disorienting; the tutorial only teaches you how to hack, and when entering the 'run' I was lost. At some point I had voices talking to me and I wasn't really paying too much attention to them as I really didn't know that they meant by 'here' at times. It takes a bit of getting to know the game to really get into it, but it is fun. Give it a go, it has tons of things to discover, and most of all, it is free :)

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"Datascape" is one of those hacker sim games, but this one gleefully discards any attempt at realism to go with a "Tron fan-fiction" meets "Cyberpunk fan-fiction" theme that's really off putting and unengaging. And that fits really well with the very weak gameplay, which is really off putting and unengaging. What do you do in the game? Trivial minigame stuff with various imaginary "hacker" tools at cringe level, and clicking through badly written cyberpunk fan-fiction writing. The graphics here are particularly awful, really ugly minimalist 2D nonsense, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. It's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. On the important matter of pricing and value for gamers, there's a lot going on here with monetisation, so this really shouldn't be considered a truly free product because of that. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $5 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on …