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Uplink

89% positive of 1,771 Steam reviews

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To finish
3 h
To 100%
6 h
Released
2006
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam, GOG

Made by Introversion Software.

About the game

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.

Tagged by players

  • Hacking
  • Real-Time with Pause
  • Programming
  • Experimental
  • Cyberpunk
  • Typing
  • Perma Death
  • Text-Based
  • Time Management
  • Immersive Sim
  • Sci-fi
  • Strategy

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What players say

  • Recommended
    An absolute classic. Fairly dated interface so I do recommend using UplinkOS. I have put so many hours into this game over the years! I think this is the 3rd time I've bought it (original cd, sold out version and now this!)

    8.4 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Overall I do not recommend. Especially at full price. Why? If you fail and get caught, you have to start from scratch and do the same thing again. Often you don't even know why exactly you got caught. The game teaches you how to hide your tracks, but you never know how much you need to do it, until you do not do enough, get caught and have to start again. One the one hand I like that. Most of the progression in the…

    11 h played when written. 14 found it helpful.

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