But you’re also hunting down the person who leaked information about you online, and as you uncover their identity, you realize there’s something troubling afoot.ĭeveloper LuGus Studios draws on the cyberpunk genre’s hardboiled roots rather than reaching for elaborate worldbuilding, heavy-handed commentary, or retro-futuristic nostalgia. At first you’re simply trying to get back on your feet, taking small jobs from your veteran fixer Snail with some help from a young, morally conflicted partner named Clover. When you log into its slightly airspace-looking simulated computer desktop, you’ll learn that your pseudonym is Data, and you’re a master hacker who just narrowly avoided imprisonment. Midnight Protocol is noir cyber-crime by way of turn-based roleplaying games and spatial puzzles. But it’s one of the best iterations of that formula I’ve seen: mechanically elegant, narratively economical, and crafted with care. Released last month by Iceberg Interactive, it joins a glut of cyberpunk games from the past couple of years, and it doesn’t add any single standout innovation to a pretty familiar formula. Video games have taught me that hacking mainly involves two things: capturing little computer-shaped nodes and typing in a command line.
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