Hours played
How long do people play Hacknet?
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 7 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3.5 hours and 14 hours.
First 2 h
79% recommend
2–5 h
93% recommend
5–10 h
96% recommend
10–20 h
98% recommend
20–50 h
98% recommend
50–100 h
99% recommend
100–200 h
200–500 h
500 h and up
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Amber recommends it, red does not. Counted from about 26,300 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
Does Hacknet hold up?
It holds steady: between 93% and 99% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
The refund window
Do the first two hours of Hacknet tell you?
16% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 79% of those recommend it. After the window, 96% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 48% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 1.5 hours in.
Out of every 20 thumbs-down, 10 came while a refund was still possible and 10 after the window had closed.
Seal
Hacknet holds up
Holds up
At least 92% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 100 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/hacknet#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/hacknet/seal/holds-up.png" width="160" height="160" alt="Hacknet: Holds up. At least 92% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 100 hours played."></a>Where players stop
How far do players get in Hacknet?
32% of the players who launched Hacknet hold Entropy, its first story achievement on Steam, and 9.9% hold Hacknet, its last. The steepest drop comes between Entropy (32%) and CSEC (20%).
Launched it
100%
Entropy
Be granted an account within Entropy
32% hold it
The wall · 12 of every 100 get no further
CSEC
Be granted an account within CSEC
20% hold it
Hacknet
Complete Bit's final request
9.9% hold it
One token is 1 of every 100 players who launched it, standing at the last story achievement they hold. Red stopped at the wall, amber hold the last one. Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate.
Everyone's copy
19 of 36 copies here were never launched
In 36 libraries here. 19 never launched it; the typical player who did put in 1 h.
Name 100
How well it's remembered
Named in 0.1% of Name 100 runs, about 1 in 848: people remember it when asked to name 100 games from memory.