Uplink
Worth it · Roguelike · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.99.
- Length
- 8.4h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was November 2014. 59 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Nodebuster ($1.94, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Hacker Evolution ($4.99, scores 20).
75 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
None of the 363 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 404 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 32, 3.8 times as much.
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 11:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Still the best hacking game ever made. Also if you download the "UplinkOS" really gives the game a new life with a more modern UI
This game was way beyond it's time. It still dwarfs other games of similar genre. Just shows that simplistic, feature rich, gameplay deth is what makes this game great. Doesn't need fancy graphics to be good. That is what majority of games lack these days. 10/10 Uplink Succesful
Lots of fun as a roleplaying experience. The music is incredible and there are some really cool details in the way the simulation of the world works, and having the whole game run as if it were a desktop client is really neat. There are only so many mission types though and once you've done a mission type once you will know exactly how it goes every time. In just 9 hours I completed the "campaign" missions and did...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Uplink scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1510/uplinkReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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