Uplink

Introversion Software / September 30, 2001 / Rated Everyone 10+

Data last updated September 24, 2026

Released

2001

Publisher

Introversion Software

Time to beat

~1 hrs

Community

2,444

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You play an Uplink Agent who makes a living by performing jobs for major corporations. Your tasks involve hacking into rival computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money, erasing evidence, or framing innocent people.
You use the money you earn to upgrade your computer systems, and to buy new software and tools. As your experience level increases you find more dangerous and profitable missions become available. You can speculate on a fully working stock market (and even influence its outcome). You can modify peoples academic or criminal records. You can divert money from bank transfers into your own accounts. You can even take part in the construction of the most deadly computer virus ever designed.

Uplink is a simulation video game released in 2001 by the British company Introversion Software. The player takes charge of a freelance computer hacker in a fictional futuristic 2010, and must break into foreign computers, complete contracts and purchase new hardware to hack into increasingly harder computer systems.

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recommended

35.17%

meh

22.07%

skip

22.07%

exceptional

20.69%

Strategy Simulation Indie Linux PC macOS iOS

Singleplayer Atmospheric Great Soundtrack Story Rich 2D Sci-fi Classic Cyberpunk Real-Time with Pause Hacking Experimental

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