Pretty good. This is a far more "serious" hacking simulator than Hacknet or Uplink, but in the end is still a simulator.

More to the point, there are a few things that nag at me with this game as an actual Linux guy who has used some of the tools for this stuff in a purely educational manner.

The most annoying by far is that each type of command requires a separate type of terminal, when in reality you could punch everything in the same terminal, normally. This might be justifiable if we assume that the OS is just a shell for commanding remote systems to do their thing (and the terminal is like an ssh session - this idea is hampered by the explanation of the exploit payloads, honestly) but overall this is very workflow-breaking in my opinion. I can't go straight from fingerprinting to searching for exploits without opening another single-command terminal, and then I need to open another window to actually run exploits.

The other nag is that autocomplete seems to be objective-based rather than history-based. In other words, tab-completing will use the relevant mission objective IP/URL/whatever instead of basing it on valid completions. Normally, this is fine - but if you accidentally close something you need to leave open, it can work against you and you'll have to slog through previous objectives to get things back to normal.

Finally, and this is more an extension of the first point, your "desktop" quickly ends up a complete mess of terminals, and the transparency is too much to tell what is stacked on what. I won't ask for tiling, but some way to more easily differentiate which of the background windows is on top would be nice.

OSCP/OSCE/GXPN-certified pentester here. This game is... shockingly accurate in many regards. Obviously you won't learn how to hack IRL, but a LOT of the methodologies (enum, fingerprint, exploit, create a C2 channel, etc) and strategies mirror life very closely, and a lot of aspects of pentesting/ethical hacking are name-dropped (MSF, Armitage, Bloodhound, etc).

Of course, in real life we don't have a slick UI like StingerOS, but despite that the game feels fairly legitimate. Several of the puzzles require some out-of-the-box thinking much like you'd use in real life pentesting. It's also a lot of fun - just wish there was a way to skip some of the starting VO. If you want to play something in the vein of Uplink and Hacknet (the game that got me into infosec/pentesting), this is very much it (also you get a couple skins if you own the games).

Highly recommended.

As an IT Auditor I can say this game is pretty damn accurate with a few exceptions, Like i was not able to use "&&" to execute multiple commands at once, which sucked, but it's okay! This game is Super Fun and I even Bought one for a friend!

One can tell lots of time and effort went into making this game so In my opinion the price is very fair!

I Would Definitely recommend this game for CySA (Cyber Security Analyst) Enthusiasts, or anyone interested in PenTesting!

Amazing Game! :)

Its hard for me to thumb this down, but as of now I certainly can't see myself giving it the thumbs-up.

It's a pretty solid hacking sim and people more educated than I say its close to reality, and those are big pros. But there are just too many cons:

1.) The console windows. You have to juggle a bunch of them and most really only have one or two commands which really don't justify the existence of unique windows. Probably the most egregious of this is the Exploit Database which services only one command. There's no reason not to just allow that command in other console windows. This seems like a minor ♥♥♥♥♥♥ but since the entirety of the gameplay consists of console windows, I should hope you make the console windows as nice as possible. Also most/all of the console windows have an entirely unnecessary load time.

2.) Rough/unfinished systems. The game keeps implying there's RPG-style ways to interact with organizations, get better software and tools, et cetera. As it stands, this never happens. At a few times in the main storyline you'll get access to new tools, which are (almost?) exclusively used to solve storyline problems. This becomes extra irritating when you start entering the Hivemind system; the Hivemind missions are player-created networks from those who purchased the $60 Network Administrator DLC. The "big reward" to completing one of these is to access their Trading Network to buy intel. Finally! The RPG system I was looking for! ...nope. I finished my first Hivemind, accessed the trading network, purchased the things available there... and it turns out they do literally nothing. They have names as though they should fit into the tools and programs I already have, but they don't. You also have reputation with a bunch of organizations, which... also does nothing? I saw a reference that maybe having a high reputation gives you greater chances of getting the rare bounty mission, which gets you... more reputation I guess? Maybe a cosmetic or two?

3.) Poor puzzle signalling. At root, hacking games are puzzles. You're supposed to match certain tools and tricks to certain problems. One of the ways very good hacking games handle this is to flood the player with options and information, leaving it to their mind to sort through things and find the right way forward. Here in Nite Team 4, this almost never happens. Take, for example, the Social Engineering Toolkit. This is a tool the game gives you (based on a very real piece of software, free and open source on GitHub) to do spear-phishing attacks, fake e-mails with viruses inside them. However, unless you're intended to use the SET, it will simply not work. When you go to build your e-mail database of your targets, you can either/both build it from a simple web crawl from the URL, or a linkdn search based on the company's name. When its not the intended solution, the tool won't be able to find ANY e-mail addresses belonging to the company... even if you're told its a major international banking company and have found e-mail addresses manually. In the same vein, there will NEVER be a WiFi network active at your target network unless accessing someone's phone via said WiFi is the intended path forwards. MITM attacks will NEVER show a target list under ARP poisoning unless you're supposed to use a MITM attack. So if you see any of these things, you know you've found the correct answer, and there are more and more examples of this.

4.) Related to above, the game's world seems... dead and silent. There's never any dead ends you can root around, you can't hack companies for sh*ts and giggles. Even your own localhost is 99% locked off from you and you can't even read the Stinger-OS readme on it.


I keep hearing "oh in the future xyz will work" but as it stands I bought the game well after full release and I kinda expect the systems to be done before full release? I really don't like being fed claims inside a game and then those just are thoroughly untrue.

Not saying its super toxic and stay away... if the game's exactly your bag then sure get it. Temper your expectations, but go ahead. Its just disappointing and falls short of what it could and should have been.

You know how we like games where the devs truly care about their game? This is one of those. You can tell the amount of research that went into making this game. It stays fun, and keeps it away from, but in the realm of "Hollywood Hacking".

Things we can do in this game:

we hacked a power station to reboot a computer, so we could hack the computer...

You get to hack an AI

Hack player built networks

Hack phones, banks, "cybersecurity" firms, power plants...its like a mini internet in the game.

And then on top of all of that, the puzzles are on point. I mean the dev went and talked to the professionals...and it shows. Even if you work in the field, this game hits all the points. Because its an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) it mixes real world information. So you might be tasked with going to a real website or Wikipedia to dig up real information. And use it to decipher something in the game, and then hack the whatever using your 'Spy Agent' OS. The OS is modeled after Kali...impressively. Another aspect showing the devs care about the gaming experience.

My most disappointing aspect is that I didn't know about it sooner...

Once you have created an account and logged in, NITE Team 4 presents a set of missions that get you up to speed on the different tasks, tools, and features used to complete objectives. Each is divided into phases, and you must finish the goals in one phase before moving to the next one, providing a well-organized introduction to what would be an overwhelming amount of information. You begin with a basic overview of the graphical user interface and work your way through each tool and technique, culminating with a full mission. This introductory assignment does a good job of showcasing the tasks and demonstrating the pacing and flow of gameplay that you can expect to find throughout.

While all of this sounds complex, and in many ways it is, NITE Team 4 does an excellent job of easing you into the way these features work and detailing what you can do with them, your handlers providing voice-over guidance along the way. Even the text-based nature of most of these tools is easier to manage than you might expect.

There are a total of four operations divided into multiple chapters, with multiple objectives or missions within each chapter. The academy and story mode missions alone provide over 25 hours of combined content.

NITE Team 4 succeeds at creating a hacking simulator that puts the player in the cyber-warfare hotseat. The story is interesting. The complex gameplay can be a handful but the experience never feels overwhelming, rewarding players with the satisfying sense of being an elite hacker.

THE GOOD
- Good storyline
- Good variety of missions and tasks
- Very good tutorial
- Realistic hacking

THE BAD
- Some features lack clear purpose
- Won't appeal to everyone

DISASTER | BAD | MEDIOCRE | OKAY | GOOD | GREAT | AMAZING | MASTERPIECE

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Reviewed on: Win10 Home 64-bit, Intel i7, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4MB GDDR5, 8MB RAM

Gra super, ale czasami nie wiadomo co zrobić dalej i trzeba sprawdzać w internecie.
Irytuje też lekko wymóg ilości otwartych okien w grze. Znacznie łatwiej by było, gdyby program z końcówki fabuły można uruchomić na stałe.

I must say that NITE Team 4 is probably the most complex and satisfying hacking game I've ever played.

At its core it's very similar to other hacking games, I think hacknet seems the most similar. The devs put a lot of effort into the game, requiring from the player to think out of the box from time to time. Bonus points for real life references to software, exploits, backdoors and all kind of terms, even though a lot of aspects were overly simplified for the game process and obviously no real tools are used in any of that.

The game has met my expectations about being a decent hacknet-like game, with enough of content to explore. I can recommend NITE to people that are into games like that, as clearly it's one of the best ones in its own category. Depending on your skills and interest, it can bring you at least a solid dozen of hours to put into.

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Absolutely brilliant it reminds me a lot of Uplink.
Some of the commands and tools are real world ones. The game gives you this vibe of being realistic but keeping the pace of videogame, like cracking passwords fast and not getting caught by the police :D.
It was a nice thing to see, specially for those who works in IT Security..

If you are into this kind of games go for it!

I would give this a neutral rating if I could.

It's a decent game but at the end of it I felt more annoyed than satisfied thus leaning negative.
The problem with the game is that while it gives you the tools (Password cracker, Web browser, File Browser, Wi-fi scanner, etc). the way you are allowed to use these tools are illogical because every mission and every step within each mission is exactly dictated by the developer how they want you to solve it.
So I always ran into things that SHOULD work, but won't because the developers didn't decide to implement the function for this mission.
Example: Say you are hacking a huge company like Walmart. Suddenly because the game decides you are not able to find any internet presence of walmart.com or any email addresses of walmart and if you found and enter emails manually that you found, the game will say does not exist just because the devs didn't intend this particular mission to be solved that way.
However it makes no logical sense. Then the next mission suddenly it works. Why? Not because of LOGIC, but because this time the dev intended you to use this tool.
So the tools never feel like a toolkit but rather an annoying checklist to go through to find out what the dev intended to be used this mission.
This leads to hilariously annoying logical fallacies. Another example is a Wifi scanner that allows you to see SSID devices and scan the wifi connection.
If the game does not intend you to solve a mission this way it will state that the Wifi on the machine you are connected to doesn't exist.
However for example sometimes I was connected to a persons phone and in the phone's setting I can CLEARLY SEE that it is connected to the WIFI of the SSID I am connected to! Like what?
These type of things lead to another issue which is becoming stuck. Always limiting your toolkit every mission to exactly fit the intended way, and never taking into account what logically SHOULD be able to be done leads that if you don't find the EXACT way to solve the step you become stuck with no way around but looking up a walkthrough.
There also is no Hint system in place. Actually no I take that back, AFTER I FINISHED the game, once no longer needed, I unlocked a -hint command! But that seems to do... absolutely nothing. I don't know if this is just a cruel joke or I am completely missing something.
Also sometimes you have to use a file explorer to visit urls, and a browser to open others, which again depends on the devs dictation and not on any logic.
And you better use the devs own syntax! Because typing "connect https://examplecompany.com" will give you an error does not exist while "connect examplecompany.com" suddenly works despite you looking up the full url with an IP lookup and confirming it to be correct.
I also found two bugs, #1 clicking withing the ingame notepad for editing/copying your own notes does not match with the cursor (you will be a few lines off, then having to manually readjust with arrow keys) #2 the game highlights currently selected window and lowlights non selected window.
I often found myself working on a window, then going to another window and the game does not light up the window until I click on the specific Header of the window.

Overall I felt disappointed by the huge limitations of the toolkit and the main story was pretty weak. For a hacking game this is one is average at best.