Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
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Worth it · Roguelike · 2006
BUY IT.
Yes, worth it at $3.59.
about 8.4h$3.59 (~)
Better value than 84% of Roguelike games
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Uplink scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/1510/uplink<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/1510/uplink"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/1510" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/1510/uplink)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 3h ago.
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PricePrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in November 2014. It has been discounted 59 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 11 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Prison Architect ($29.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Scanner Sombre ($6.99, scores 59).