Cybermere

Cybermere is a real-time hacking game in which you take increasingly difficult contracts, earn money and upgrade your cyberdeck software. You decide how to spend or save your earnings while balancing your energy, time and resources. Your choices and actions also determine the story’s ending.

Hack ICE

You use more than a dozen upgradeable software tools to scan ICE structures and reach their Root nodes. Each tool has different abilities, letting you approach obstacles in several ways. Viruses can alter ICE structures to create openings or weaken and destroy obstacles; ICE Blaster.exe clears a path by blasting through nodes. The ICE Probe gathers information, while the Hammer can weaken security measures from a distance. Melee.exe can quickly take out an enemy drone or a node, depending on its version. You can combine tools to find different ways through a network.

Manage time and resources

Time in Cybermere advances at the same rate as in the real world. You need to sleep to advance time and regain energy, but resting leaves you less time to complete your goals. Software and equipment cost money, so you must decide how to allocate your resources as you work through contracts.

Shape the outcome

As you progress, you encounter characters and situations that call for difficult decisions. The consequences of your choices and actions determine which ending you get.