Hypnospace Outlaw Review

Is a flawless piece of historical fiction, a savage work of contemporary satire, and a genuinely tricky puzzle game.Set entirely in a late ’90s Geocities-like online hub called Hypnospace, it tasks the player with working as a community enforcer, administering a code of behavior across its user-created pages. These ugly websites are populated by a diverse cast of internet archetypes extant in the ’90s, as now.

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My job is to take down copyright infringers, virus makers, hackers, scammers, and trolls.I interact with them in ways similar to mechanics in other politically charged games, like and, gathering information through observation. I look through their websites and I decide if they are breaking the rules. I can delete stuff from their pages, and I can report them for greater punishment, such as a ban.At first, it’s a simple case of trawling a few dozen websites and handing down infringement notices. But I’m soon required to take a more investigative approach, ferreting out passwords, connections, and relationships.

My tools are basic: trial and error, lateral thinking, guesswork. Is our way of endorsing our favorite games. When we award a game the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the title is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive or fun — and worth fitting into your schedule. If you want to see the very best of the best for your platform(s) of choice, check out.Hypnospace is owned and run by a pair of brothers who epitomize a Silicon Valley-inspired credo of amorality and greed. They speak to the pre-2000 generation of manic, cynical entrepreneurs.

But they’re also powerfully reminiscent of our own era’s social media magnates.The main story tracks how Hypnospace’s management is preparing for the Y2K bug: by larding its anti-virus software with expensive features and launching a weird new game. This unfolds among a host of mini-plots centered around the individual pages of Hypnospace’s users, who gather in poisonous hubs dedicated to their own obsessions. A bad online game in Hypnospace Outlaw. Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs Media/No More RobotsWe experience these people through their sad, desperate webpages, complete with typographical horrors, ghastly animations, and execrable grammar. They present as a carnival parade of monomaniacs, loners, idealists, and criminals. Their woeful websites are a genuinely funny joke, featuring wild conspiracy theories, bad social games, and crass attempts at online villainy.But they are also human beings with their own failings and charms.

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Their tales coalesce to form a deeply engaging narrative.Even if the atmosphere and detail of the game is super 1999, the activities of these netizens are familiar to all of us, who live with social media today. Hypnospace’s users strive to persuade, coerce, bully, and bribe their way toward a disparate set of goals, including saving souls, scamming a buck, and attaining fame.They live in an internet age that we now view through the lens of cozy nostalgia. But while the fonts and memes hark back to a different world, the behavior patterns are no different from our own. The fonts and memes hark back to a different worldThis is why Hypnospace Outlaw is one of the best pieces of historical fiction that I’ve ever seen in games. It’s ferocious in its dedication to recreating the past, while never losing sight of the present.

It’s packed with great jokes, but they’re just as likely to be teasing you and me now as they are the versions of us who might have lived online in the late ’90s.As an overarching challenge, Hypnospace Outlaw has its own rhythms. The puzzles can be incredibly tough. There are times when I feel great, because I’m making progress.

And there are times when I feel like an idiot, because I’m getting nowhere. I expend a lot of effort trying out wacky solutions until I find the right one.

Like all good puzzle games, it can be frustrating and dispiriting. It can also be wonderfully fulfilling.

As I progress, the story unfolds, offering up new narrative delights, more jokes, and more nostalgia. I think it’s worth playing, even if you cheat a little and peek online at some of the more esoteric solutions.Hypnospace Outlaw is one of those games that deserves not merely to be played, but also to be treated as an opportunity to think about our digital lives, now and then. It’s a perplexing, clever piece of work. As they might have said back in the ’90s, it’s totally dope.Hypnospace Outlaw is now available on Linux, Mac, and Windows PC.

The game was reviewed on Windows using a final “retail” Steam download code provided by No More Robots. You can find additional information about Polygon’s ethics policy.