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Hackshot

RD Interactive Developer

RD Interactive Publisher

2022-05-09 Release

Indie Simulation SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 20

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Positive (11 reviews)

Steam Store

Major Update [ Hackshot v1.93 ] drops with a 50% discount

Hackshot is featured at the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, with a huge discount as well Let's just get into what's new:

=> Master Hacker Conquests

These new challenges require using some interesting and obscure interactions in the game, they are also a new way to gain stars in the game, which grants a new alternative for a smoother progression. There will be 100+ Conquest stars in this update [previewyoutube=ZDA4Lr1Fx8w;full][/previewyoutube]

=> Critical nodes can now grant more stars

Critical nodes such as 11, 22, 33, ... are usually much more involved than normal nodes (levels), so now they can grant more stars than usual. I think this helps to match their involvement with an appropriate reward. The ones with the least stars can now grant up to 7 stars, and the highest one is much higher than that.

=> New Story Chapter

No spoilers

=> Steam Achievements and Cloud save

Finally !!! And as of now, the game will have 80 achievements on Steam, maybe at May 29th a couple more will be added as well

=> Simplified Chinese In-game Guide

By the generous effort of @OldCaptainWZJ, I have managed to add an in-game guide in Simplified Chinese

=> A ton of User Interface and Quality of Life improvements

I will just list some to make the point:

Slimmer and easier to use shot tools panel,
New score lists: Highlights your current scores easily, as well as highlighting Ascended hacks, Exploits and Maxed nodes,
Some new icons for the Mod Wheel for better readability,
Faster simulation speed as default,
New instructions to make learning about in-depth functions easier

=> Extra polish for Visuals and Audio

Shapes are now smoother but keep their sharp form, better SFX in general, and some new effects were added such as a better hit effect to sell the strength of impacts (it changes with Cyberball attributes)

=> Finally, lots of bug fixes

[ 2025-05-29 17:13:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

HackShot is a puzzle game with a mix of physics, logic and crafting

Analyze the environment, craft your solution, and hack the system!
Immerse yourself into open-ended puzzles where you breach security, destroy viruses, and battle black hats.

Analyze => Craft => Hack

Hundreds of twists, mix-ups, and interactions

> Gameplay();

Over 20 hours of puzzles
Feel like a real hacker with an optional command console and scripts
Open-ended puzzles, with multiple solutions
Craft over 7000 unique cyberballs to use
Security systems: Anti-virus, Anti-malware, Firewalls, and more
Viruses: Trojans, Ransomware, Worms, and more
Hackers will hack your solutions, so plan ahead
Annoy the developers and solve puzzles in your own way, you have all the necessary tools

> Story();

Learn hacking, meet others in the Murky web, and earn your place on the top
Meet hackers, security specialists and cyber maniacs, through a mysterious, light-hearted and fun story
Dynamic narrative: other characters dialogue and reactions are affected by your actions
View the files you hack, and uncover information and secrets

> Accessibility and game settings(still in development);

There is a quit button in the game, and a quit button in pause menu
Supports both windowed and fullscreen, and also support widescreen resolutions
Button remapping, and support for keyboard and mouse, keyboard-only, mouse-only and controllers
Full support for touch screens both in gameplay and menus
Full audio controls, and separate audio settings for main menu, gameplay and cutscenes
The ability to turn off visuals that have repeated patterns
Color blind mode
Interface size options
Color contrast control