Buy Zly.ii: The Hacked Station PC key

Zly.ii: The Hacked Station is a first-person science-fiction adventure built around logical puzzles and exploration. You play an astronaut from Terra, summoned to the Table of the TSP (Terran Space Pirates) after a friend goes missing. She was searching for a rare Black Cube, an alien artefact with various powers.

The missing astronaut

You travel to the Catyph planetary system and use the Kunci, a kind of stargate, to reach your friend’s last presumed location. Instead, you find yourself trapped in the old Anterran space station Zly.ii, with no way back and no sign of your friend. A hostile presence seems to watch your actions as you investigate the station.

You can read your friend’s diary for clues, piece together the full story and search for the Black Cube. The game can be played without knowledge of the previous Black Cube series episodes; its narration provides the story details needed to follow it. Familiarity with the other episodes adds context, but there is no recommended order for playing the series.

Explore and solve

The station is an interactive environment with escape-game-like elements and no time limit. You explore, observe and make connections to solve logical puzzles, sometimes taking notes on paper. The game mainly uses the mouse, while the keyboard is sometimes needed to enter passwords or commands and open the menu.

Presentation and length

The game uses 360-degree panoramic views, with prerendered backgrounds and video cutscenes, in the traditional, simple style of the Black Cube series with a retro touch. Its narration includes subtitles, diary entries and other text, alongside a few CG movies. An original soundtrack is by Python Blue. A playthrough takes about 2 to 5 hours, depending on your approach, use of a walkthrough, puzzle-solving ability and powers of observation.