Hypnospace Outlaw

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Hypnospace Outlaw is a 1990's, simulation and point & click game developed by Tendershoot, Michael Lasch and ThatWhichIs Media and published by No More Robots.
Released on March 12th 2019 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 4,623 reviews of which 4,489 were positive and 134 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Hypnospace Outlaw into these genres:

1990's Simulation Point & Click Surreal Retro Alternate History Detective Great Soundtrack Indie Singleplayer Story Rich Funny Atmospheric Puzzle Psychedelic Interactive Fiction Mystery Adventure Psychological Fantasy

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows 10, 11
Processor: 1.4GHz processor or faster
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Integrated graphics should be fine
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS 10.7+
Processor: Intel i5 Ivy Bridge
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel Iris Pro Graphics
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 / SteamOS
Processor: Intel i5 Ivy Bridge
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel Iris Pro Graphics
Storage: 1 GB available space

Reviews

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June 2024

Everything loads faster if you wiggle the mouse. 10/10 masterpiece It's quite special. It really is a display of love for a past era. It's all there, the way you could customize the appearance of your apps in crazy and ugly ways, the viruses and hoaxes, the little flash game. the little forums dedicated to niche subjects and filled with weirdos. It's a lot of chill reading, it's up to you to investigate and connect the dots in the vast series of tubes of the early internet. I wonder what younger people think of this game if they have no nostalgia for the birth of the internet

March 2024

I remember the Internet like this. Hell, it was even crazier back in the days. Sketchy .EXEs, flashy pages without JS or even CSS, invite-only communities, etc. This game may not look exactly like web 1.0, but it gives an honest try to revive the spirit The core gameplay and the story is... Well, who gives a damn?! The most fun thing to do in Hypnospace Outlaw is just to open random pages and follow link after link after link filling yourself with useless trivia and facts about other's personal life. If you just follow the story and get on to cases you're assigned right away, this game is nothing special, really. But the first time I launched Hypnospace Outlaw, I woke up 3 hours in not even remembering what my objective was. Browsing was just too fun to stop! If you're here for a detective game or a technological thriller, you'd better give this a second thought. But if you're interested in the old Internet culture and all of peculiarities of web 1.0, I'd recommend this as an immediate purchase.

Feb. 2024

if you are concerned about the homogenization of the internet and digital preservation, this game will hit you like a truck

Feb. 2024

An offbeat mash-up of 90s pastiche and puzzle-box, Hypnospace Outlaw offers a solid few hours of nostalgic sleuthing through a snapshot of the early internet. Whether it will hold the same appeal for those who didn’t live through this era of hideous pastels, dodgy 3D art and migrainous fonts, I can’t say, but Hypnospace’s pitch-perfect visual and audio work certainly unlocked a few core memories from my childhood. Playing as an “Enforcer” in an alternate-reality sleep-based internet, the player is free to browse detailed and expansive user-created webpages in the style of early blogs and pre-Facebook social media. Barred from normal interaction by your role, your primary task is to complete “cases” of deleting copyrighted material, online harassment and other infringements. Doing so takes you on a tour of absurd flame wars, patriotic harrumphing, geeky online RPGs, and more. There’s a surprisingly enormous amount of music available to listen to; much of it awful, some of it quite good, all of it quintessentially 90s. Completing the campaign will require some light puzzle-solving, with plenty of optional arcana hidden away to tantalise completionists. Hypnospace Outlaw is a great idea with a compact runtime. It doesn’t outstay its welcome, though for me it rather stumbled to the finish line with an oblique final puzzle and an anti-climactic coda. Its evocative theme is well-executed, and while I never Burst With Laughter, much of the writing raised a smile, and a few anecdotes were quite touching. Hypnospace Outlaw succeeds in both ribbing and longing for a more optimistic time when it seemed that cyberspace would become “the new home of Mind,” rather than a hyperactive engagement-mill. It doesn’t miss an opportunity to take potshots at the avarice and incompetence of corporations seeking to monetise digital spaces, but embodies an earnestness rarely seen online nowadays. For all that this is a unique and well-realised singleplayer experience, Hypnospace offers a reminder of an online experience built from the bottom up by mostly well-meaning people to speak, be heard and find companionship. For that, perhaps more than any gameplay, writing or musical excellence, I’m happy to recommend it. If you enjoy Hypnospace, definitely check out Papers, Please if you haven't already; which is similarly thought-provoking and evocative, but an even finer example of ludo-narrative brilliance.

Feb. 2024

Played this for the aesthetic and nostalgia bait, ended up with the dark story line about corporation killing creativity and ignoring safety for profit.... Just like in real life

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16.79€

9.3

4,489

134

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Developer

Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs Media

Publisher

No More Robots

Release 12 Mar 2019

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