RavOaks
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So has anyone heard of this game called Hypnospace Outlaw?
If you don't know what it is, HSO is basically an alternate universe imagining of the internet at the end of the 90s and the beginning of the new millennium. The game is actually a pretty good puzzle and detective mystery, but the simulation is the best part. It is both familiar and yet really strange all at once and I love it. I have played the game through Xbox Game Pass, but I want to buy it sometime for the small modding community that has grown up around HSO.
In spite of the fact that I can not speak from experience about the accuracy of the simulated internet in Hypnospace Outlaw, the amount of work that went into it is nevertheless very impressive. The game is a love letter to the so-called wild west days of the net and I think it is something everybody should experience at least once. Special mention has to go out to work on the music and the creation of multiple fictional genres to flesh out the alternate universe, the two standout examples being Coolpunk and Haze.
If you don't know what it is, HSO is basically an alternate universe imagining of the internet at the end of the 90s and the beginning of the new millennium. The game is actually a pretty good puzzle and detective mystery, but the simulation is the best part. It is both familiar and yet really strange all at once and I love it. I have played the game through Xbox Game Pass, but I want to buy it sometime for the small modding community that has grown up around HSO.
In spite of the fact that I can not speak from experience about the accuracy of the simulated internet in Hypnospace Outlaw, the amount of work that went into it is nevertheless very impressive. The game is a love letter to the so-called wild west days of the net and I think it is something everybody should experience at least once. Special mention has to go out to work on the music and the creation of multiple fictional genres to flesh out the alternate universe, the two standout examples being Coolpunk and Haze.