Hacker Evolution: Untold
Skip · Strategy · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 8.6h
- Value
- $0.58/hr
- Reviews
- 61% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible video card, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
When the number of computers in existence and their processing capacity exceeds that of all mankind, a point of technological singularity is encountered. A massive economic and systematic crisis hits the entire world. Nobody knows the exact cause, and all solutions to fix it, are failing.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.39. That was August 2023. It has been discounted 114 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 51 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Hacker Evolution ($4.99, scores 20) and Internet Cafe Simulator ($9.99, scores 32) both outscore it.
What players say
Hacker Evolution: Untold, developed and published by exosyphen studios, takes players back to the beginnings of one of the series' central figures, Brian Spencer. Designed as a narrative prequel, the game explores the circumstances that transformed a gifted software engineer into a fugitive navigating a world of digital conspiracies. Rather than presenting hacking through realistic cybersecurity practices, the title...
Beautiful & absolutely underrated game. For me as a geek that like terminals this game is awesome. I expected just mini-games with digits, but in reality it has great terminal emulation and you feel that geek vibe and elegance of using computers. And what surprised me more is that story in that game is exciting and awesome too! So guys, please, if that is just not game of your taste, don't put bad review/mark on it...
Trying to hack feels like a grandma mixing cables. Navigation is tough, and boring dialogues remind me of a university coding diploma. I need tea and patience to survive this maze!
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Hacker Evolution: Untold scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/70110/hacker-evolution-untoldThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 5, price as of Sep 24.
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