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As a 1990s dream-internet moderator, browse personal sites, track rule-breakers, and solve cases hidden among their pages.
Released 12 Mar 2019
Flag Copyright Violations
Trace Hidden Websites
Catch Viruses
Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
Developed by Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs Media · Published by No More Robots
In an alternate take on the late 1990s, people enter Hypnospace—a colorful online world—through headsets while they sleep. You work for the Hypnospace Patrol Department, reviewing reports of rule-breaking across its community.
Browse personal websites, follow links and search for evidence of copyright violations, harassment, malware, and other offenses. Your inbox delivers cases and updates, while the pages and posts reveal connections between users and communities.
Closing cases advances the story and earns Hypnocoins. You can also search for hidden sites and files, download music and other content, watch for viruses and adware, and customize your desktop with wallpapers, screensavers, and helper apps.
In the supplied reviews, players often enjoy getting absorbed in the many personal websites and piecing together their users’ stories through online clues and changing pages. They also praise the distinctive retro web aesthetic, music, and the satisfaction of solving cases. Some reviewers, however, found later puzzles difficult to decipher, the browsing tedious, or the ending unsatisfying.
Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the corporatocracy sleeps, outlaws are out there committing terrible transgressions all across our beloved Hypnospace, and these virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
Hypnospace Outlaw is a '90s internet simulator in which you scour Hypnospace's wide variety of weird and wonderful websites to hunt down wrongdoers, while also keeping an eye on your inbox, avoiding viruses and adware, and downloading a plethora of apps that may or may not be useful.
As part of your job as a Hypnospace Enforcer, you'll be watching out for copyright infringement, internet bullying and more, with reports and rewards coming direct from the Hypnospace Patrol Department to your inbox. In your spare time, you can customize your HypnOS desktop however you see fit, with a variety of downloads, wallpapers, screen savers and helper bots to keep you company.
So slip on your Hypnospace Headband™, and keep these key directives in mind:
Crawl through Cyberspace: Scour the darkest corners of the Web for scumbag users who violate Hypnospace law!
Dangers and delights: Download groovy GIFS and MIDI files, but watch out for adware, toolbars and hackers!
Treasure hunting: Do your job to earn Hypnocoins, or ignore your inbox and go hunting for hidden pages, downloads and secrets!
Relive your childhood: Equip obnoxious screensavers and skins for your desktop, and wiggle your mouse pointer around to make pages load faster!
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 14 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 83/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
