Lizstar

Gay Murr Girl

Liz, Goblin, Part-Time Shark, VTuber, retired speedrunner, author, GDQ staff, Sega fan, "Yuri Sommelier", Walking Encyclopedia of All Things Useless, Twitch partner, general menace. Says "Murr" a lot. This is not a place of honor, views my own, etc. Avatar art by me.


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.


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I miss windows games that didn’t hide the fact that they were windows apps, from like the mid 90’s-early 2000’s. Like the interface is very “we’re using the same widgets as Microsoft word over here”

Ahh, Decker! That was such a fun game, nothing has ever quite scratched the itch the same since. The Shadowrun TBS games, like Dragonfall, have mimicked the feel in some ways in their decking simulations, but it's not the same for sure (and obviously those are story-based RPGs, though there is a freeform mod).