Hypnospace Outlaw
Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the corporatocracy sleeps, outlaws are out there committing terrible transgressions all across our beloved Hypnospace, and these virtual streets aren’t going to police themselves!
Hypnospace Outlaw is a ’90s internet simulator in which you scour Hypnospace’s wide variety of weird and wonderful websites to hunt down wrongdoers, while also keeping an eye on your inbox, avoiding viruses and adware, and downloading a plethora of apps that may or may not be useful.
As part of your job as a Hypnospace Enforcer, you’ll be watching out for copyright infringement, internet bullying and more, with reports and rewards coming direct from the Hypnospace Patrol Department to your inbox. In your spare time, you can customize your HypnOS desktop however you see fit, with a variety of downloads, wallpapers, screen savers and helper bots to keep you company.
So slip on your Hypnospace Headband™, and keep these key directives in mind:
- Crawl through Cyberspace: Scour the darkest corners of the Web for scumbag users who violate Hypnospace law!
- Dangers and delights: Download groovy GIFS and MIDI files, but watch out for adware, toolbars and hackers!
- Treasure hunting: Do your job to earn Hypnocoins, or ignore your inbox and go hunting for hidden pages, downloads and secrets!
- Relive your childhood: Equip obnoxious screensavers and skins for your desktop, and wiggle your mouse pointer around to make pages load faster!
Hypnospace Outlaw has 31 accessibility features including text to speech, one-button play and navigation clarity! Read the full accessibility report here: https://www.taminggaming.com/en-us/accessibility/Hypnospace+Outlaw
Game Discussion
Steam User 38
Hypnospace Outlaw could have so easily been a cheap trick. It could've secretly been a horror game the whole time. It could have blindsided us with a view of the internet so desolate, so cynical that its genuine hope is for us to log off forever. It did not do these things. Instead, shockingly and beautifully, it represents a love letter to the internet, as it once was, and as it can be, given the right people. The internet is not an organism malicious in nature. It is an invention that boldly attempted, and in some ways succeeded, to solve one of humanity's biggest flaws: our lack of worldliness. It urges us to connect, and to listen, and to care. It does not require these things, as is apparent, but it wishfully whispers them to us regardless. Thank you, internet, for granting me the wealth of knowledge that makes me who I am today; and thank you, Hypnospace Outlaw, for reminding me to thank the internet.
Steam User 36
One of the best puzzle games ever made, please just play it.
R.I.P dreamsettler
Steam User 28
The cancellation of the sequel makes me sad, as this game scratched an itch I didn't even know I had. I hope the developers know that I enjoyed the hell out of this game.
Steam User 17
An interesting game that makes you feel like you're back in the early days of the internet. Probably the closest Gen X or whatever will ever get to seeing what the internet was like... Until the ultra rich throw the world into this horrible dystopian future they seem dead-set on creating for all of us.
Steam User 14
What an incredible game. I had no idea what to expect when I installed this, but what a pleasant surprise. It was just so much fun discovering all of the content in this virtual late 90s internet. It really reminded me of the late 90s. And the music in this game is just fantastic. I could go on and on but I just wanted to leave a review to say "buy it", especially if you grew up during that era.
Steam User 17
What I thought would just be silly nostalgia-based entertainment turned out to be a very well-written game. I recommend it to anyone who wants to remember the early days of the Internet, have fun with all the funny content, explore a fictional operating system, download lots of interesting original music "illegally", etc., and while doing all this, discover the story of characters you'll become attached to.
Steam User 9
I both love and hate finding unique, never-been-done-before games with immensely absorbing concepts.
I love them because they prove that quirky and interesting concepts are waiting to be uncovered and brought to life.
I hate them because they're too unique and, once you finish them and suffer an itch to play something like them, you spend countless hours searching for similar games that simply do not exist.
Oh, and there's mod support.
I adore this game.