[Review] Midnight Protocol hacks into the sweet spot between storytelling and strategy

I’d like to thank Tom for solving my save problem. Unfortunately, no such luck.

Thanks, anyway.

When you load the saved game, you don’t see the missions for Bridge and Encryption in the [A]ddress section? Those seem to be the missing factors from your saved game.

Could I trouble you to send me your saved game? Maybe I might notice something you didn’t?

-Tom

P.S. Ah, it looks like the folks at Lugus have gotten involved on Steam and they’re reading this thread. We’ll get you fixed up one way or another, Mr. TGB!

Thanks @tomchick for bringing this game to light - especially when it is part of Humble Choice. I was going to pause, but grabbed it for this game and it hasn’t disappointed. I’ve played a couple hacking games before, like Hacknet which I did not like at all. This game is awesome.

Very easy to understand, makes you think about your moves but not crazy difficult, at least so far. And it feels like I’m hacking. Sometimes I get drawn into games I ultimately don’t like because when you like something, your enthusiasm in your writing makes it sound awesome (hmmm Conquest of Elysium). We are on the same page about this one.

Mr. TGB is his father. Call him Son.

The only hacking game I played for any good amount of time was Uplink. It was neat but definitely got repetitive and I never got very far in the story even after I successfully robbed a bank.

Even if you are behind 7 proxies and scrub your IPs from the logs they still get you unless you follow this tricky guide that feels like an exploit.

That’s not true if you route through InterNIC and delete your logs is it? Unless you mean the active trace, in which case 7 proxies is nothing. Every time I find a new server it gets added to the chain.

Tom’s save file fixed my problem, so thanks again

he should get a raise, totally underpaid support staffer.

I find it kind of funny that the game’s marketing uses the image of a young woman’s face that vaguely resembles that of Angelina Jolie, whom we all know was in Hackers at the tender age of 18. Was she ever in another movie where she played a hacker?

Anyway, I started to play this and it seems pretty cool, so I’ll keep it up. Seems a bit more approachable than Hacknet (although that game’s OST is pretty bangin).

Wishlisted!

I failed at Japanese (had to drop 2 years in due to work and paternity) and marathon running (21km is plenty, thx). But the recent translations of War and Peace are surprisingly brisk reads, and the novel is amazing (I read the Briggs translation, and it is among my favorite books). You can do it!

Just got this on Eneba for less than 1/2 of 1 Euro. Activated fine on Steam.