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 21
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
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 17
This game is so unique that's hard to describe it. They sell it as an internet simulator, but It also feels like a mix of point and click adventure and puzzle.
Very well written, EXCELLENT OST, I only wish that it had more content (it's not like it DOESN'T have a lot of content already, but I would love to play more of this!).
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 12
This entire game is a bizarrely lifelike imitation of the 90s early internet era, with all the hoaxes, viruses, insecure teenagers and creative efforts that you expect with that premise. The way in which Hypnospace changes over time, as well as how it changes with your own input, feels incredibly real.
This is one of my favorite games of all time for how it captures this feeling, how unique it is in doing so and how outstandingly well executed it is. Simply outstanding
Steam User 11
One of the most human video games I've ever played, with writing that exceeds pretty much everything else. It has dozens of characters that feel like real people, with a level of insight few games I've played delve into. It truly feels like a world you are interacting with, something full and great and could be explored endlessly.