Project: Aftershock

Project: Aftershock is a narrative-driven arcade hacking roguelite set in a dystopian future. You play as Dr. Rudolf Reinhardt Richter, once known as “The Architect,” who built the nation’s neural grid. The Regime branded him a traitor and imprisoned him, but a suspicious earthquake has shattered the prison walls. Now operating from a forgotten bunker he built 20 years ago, Richter uses a legacy terminal and analog signals to evade a Regime that hunts for digital footprints.

Breach the firewalls

You have 3 seconds to break through the Regime’s firewalls. Identify the correct data nodes, decrypt files and siphon funds while avoiding traps and aggressive AI countermeasures such as AEGIS. The Regime’s adaptive firewalls create changing puzzle variations, so no two hacks are the same.

Upgrade your hardware

You use funds stolen from the Regime to upgrade your legacy hardware in the Black Market. If you are caught, you keep your hardware upgrades and can return stronger.

Uncover the conspiracy

Decrypt logs from the Regime to learn the truth and uncover a conspiracy as you work to dissolve the system and clear your name. Your mission is to drain the Regime’s accounts and activate the “Project: Aftershock” protocol.

Retro-industrial atmosphere

The game presents its hacking through green code on a black screen, with the hum of a CRT monitor and glitchy analog sounds, rather than 3D models.