This is Decker, a freeware game from 2002 that I played an extremely large amount of. And I don't even mean like just in 2002, last time I sat down and played this was for an entire day back in 2021 lol
I kinda compare every cyberpunk hacking indie game to this subconsciously in my brian. It's primitive. It's kinda ugly. But it's weirdly engaging. You build up stats, design software upgrades, buy and build hardware upgrades, all while living rent to rent and hacking corporations to do so. Your missions can be anywhere from finding files hidden in the server, to going to a specific node and pressing a button. The servers are randomly generated, it's got a roguelike vibe to it.
There's lots of "Hacker indie games" these days, and I like the vibe of them a lot. But I will always go back to this.
