The Lonely Hacker

The game is definitely different. it's interesting. It caught my attention, and the developer is always working on it, which is great. The game is fun. I have one really massive complaint and one minor complaint. Massive: All files are massively oversized. An 8GB Word doc is a ridiculous number of pages. Speed up transfers, please. Minor: Can the icons for data, web, and mail servers be differentiated, please? Otherwise, it's a fun game. I'm looking forward to more updates and more content.

Overall, a pretty decent game; and in a way is both fun and educational. It looks complex on the outside, but the handwritten tutorials and descriptions make it easy enough for anyone to understand. Money making isn't too tough and progression feels satisfying. As it stands, the game feels fairly limited; there are many features yet to be implemented that could expand the game as a whole. However, I do understand that game development is a tough and enduring process, so this is to be expected.

Neat concept, but very unintuitive and the UI is terrible. The graphics don't seem to fit on my display (first gen Pixel), with buttons and text cutting off. Also, many things don't scroll far enough. I spent about for five minutes with the game, couldn't really figure anything out to the point where I was enjoying myself, and uninstalled it. Sure to it being so unintuitive, there really needs to be a tutorial it something. I'm generally not a big fan of games holding your hand too much but in this case I would want just that, at least for a little bit. UPDATE 3/28/19: The dev responded to my comment any positive communication is worth an extra star. It still doesn't fill my screen (I now have an S9+), but at least I can see. The controls are still shaky, and it's hard to get started, but once you figure out the controls it's not bad. There are a lot of things that don't work, though, such as the automatic selling feature that the game tells you about. The button to turn it on straight up doesn't do anything. Also, some actions take too long to be fun, and you can't do anything but watch it do nothing. Cracking a WPA2 network literally took 40 minutes of real time.