Night Hacking

Night Hacking is an interactive story told through chats, files and websites. You play as F4stTurt13, a grey-hat hacker who earns a living completing bug bounties and has not left their apartment in years. When F4stTurt13 becomes caught up in a conspiracy, they set out to uncover the truth. The story takes 7–10 hours, depending on your reading speed and interest in side content, and includes decisions that affect the ending.

The world

In 2032, a large-scale natural disaster ravaged the world. After years of recovery, two large opposing “countries” formed. The story takes place in the Eastern Alliance of Democracies, which comprises Eurasia and Eastern Africa.

Government policies limit the computing power of personally owned devices to 1 GFLOP. An illegal tool called NeuralNet Jack gets around this limit by using the human brain as a “CPU.”

ShadowNet

Online content is heavily censored, so people created ShadowNet, an alternative distributed network. Using it is a crime, but 25–30% of the population accesses it daily. Members of the Neon Knights Collective are the main contributors to ShadowNet’s infrastructure and code.

Hacking and progress

The hacking process is guided and simple, with a few minigames. Saving happens only at the end of each level.