





While a very basic programming background is recommended, it is not required to play the game!
- Write scripts in JavaScript to automate your gameplay
- Hack through a network of servers to train your abilities and earn money
- Solve real programming questions to hone your skills and earn rewards
- Improve your character with 100+ Augmentations
- Trade in the stock market and write automated trading scripts
- Interact with various gameplay mechanics to increase your stats and earn money
- Explore the world and discover different companies, locations, and factions
- Mini-games
- Unlock secret perma-upgrades
- Continuing development!
1.7.0 2022-04-01 - Giant overhaul
** Platform **
* Available on the Atari 2600 and flipphones.
** Hacking **
* Now gated by a real life subscription to Nord-west VPN
* Is now considered rude, thus lowers karma.
** PVP **
* Added PVP, you can now hack other players.
** New location **
* Added new location "Outer Space" to the travel agency. Traveling to Outer Space results in the player instantly dying, resetting your save file.
** UI **
* Upgraded to support VR
* Removed all whitespace from the UI to make room for added features
* Defaults to light theme
* UI moved up 3px to accomodate average player height
** Bladeburner **
* Bladeburner now scales off of your INT stat instead of physical stats. Stat requirements remain unchanged.
** API **
* No longer supports javascript, now supports python, befunge, and whitespace.
* Added willScriptHalt (collecting my nobel prize soon)
** Stock Market **
* The stock market now has a net worth of $25, allowing players to buy large portions of the market earlier in the game
** Hashnet **
* Hashes can no longer be spent
** Keystrokes **
* Combat stats now tied to keyboard stroke (press hard = more strength, type quickly = more agi)
** Bug Fix **
* Fixed a long-standing bug where installing augs wiped scripts on all servers except home. Now wipes home as well.
* Fixed bug where buying aug didn't cost any reputation.
** Misc **
* Updated ToS (Terms of Service): For legal reasons, we must now inform your employer if you are playing Bitburner during business hours.
* Faction rep/favour now decreases if you purchase one of their augs from another faction.
* Connections to remote servers only last 5 seconds, so you have to hack faster
* Added "Hunger" stat, must eat noodles every 8 hours to avoid hospitalization.
* Copy-pasting has been disabled to prevent players from cheating
* Gain 1 entropy virus every time a script errors.
* Can only enter a BN if the current day of the month matches the BN number.
(More BNs in progress to make it possible to play in the second half of the month)
* Players now start in BN8
* Bathroom breaks will now be timed
* Mouse support deprecated
* Scripts can be minted and sold on the Steam marketplace.
* In-game location can now be purchased by sponsors.
* Sponsored by Roids legendary shadows
* Added in-app purchases (1$ in game for 1$ IRL)
* Removed tutorial and documentation, just read the source Im tired of updating docs.
* Sleeves now go rogue when their shock reaches 0
* Added Gigabyteburner3000 inside Megabyteburner2000.
* BN12 now gives levels of QLink instead of Neuroflux.
* Gang and Corporation now drain money from the player.
* Joe from joesguns found a rocket launcher and will now hunt the player.
* Boost noodle bar
Minimum Setup
- OS: Linux
- Processor: 1.5 GHzMemory: 512 MB RAM
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: Intel Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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