Greenlight Highlight | Grey Hack

Title: Grey Hack
Developer: Loading Home
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What type of game is it?

Multiplayer Hacking Simulator

What’s the 30 second elevator pitch?

Hack into a procedurally generated web of networks and systems around the world as a single hacker in a world of other player hackers. Do you go for the big score, work to foil it, or simply stand in the sidelines and benefit from its existence?

What do we like most about it?

Grey Hack’s dedication to being fully immersive, from the emulated OS to the various in game interfaces is admirable; it’s always great to see a game put a major focus onto emulating such things, and obviously in the Hacker section of the simulation genre it is easily done, but not easily done well.

Secondly, and I’d hope obviously, the multiplayer and how it works with the procedural networks is the major game changer. Many of us have played recent hacking titles, or the old classic Uplink, and pondered on how different the game would be with dangerous, unpredictable and adaptive AI; about how a hacker tasked to interfere with your own mission would change the game. The developers, Loading Home, have done one better by allowing multiple players into the game’s ecosystem, allowing chaotic and catastrophic changes to areas of everyone’s games to be a direct result of other player’s interference.

Finally, each of the game’s computers have a user somewhere in the gameworld, a user that can be tracked, followed by CCTV, and manipulated into giving you access. This is an unprecedented level of depth, and if this game manages to deliver in these three areas then it will be a revolutionary milestone for the genre.

When’s it due?

Grey Hack is currently expected to launch in Q3 of 2017. When it launches it will do so for Windows PC, Mac & Linux.