The game is fun. I am not good enough at coding to be great at the game; HOWEVER, I am good enough with ChatGPT to write prompts that create the code to be great at the game. Cheating? Depends on your viewpoint. All the laid-off programmers this year indicates I may be on to something.

Seriously though, the game is/was fun. The augmentation system makes you start over when you install them. When you start over, you get the stat increases from the augmentations. Each run you become a bit stronger until you reach the end of the BitNode.

The BitNode system was a little deflating. I knew it was coming. Just like the augmentations loop, you are expected to start a new BitNode and lose EVERYTHING. I put 240+ hours into BN-1. Hindsight being 20/20, that was waaay too much time. For some reason, I thought unlocking all the augmentations before I finished the first BitNode would have meant something. Nope, started over with nothing just the same.

It isn't enough of a letdown to down vote the game. I mean, I clearly understood the concept and what the next stage entailed. I guess I was just too underwhelmed to keep going. I restarted in BN-2, stared at the screen, looked at all my non-existent stats, and then logged out.

Give the game a shot. Don't spend too much time trying to unlock everything in the first run. It is possible, but it isn't necessary.

if you install this game you are:
a) at least 25 years old with an expansive career in IT/software development
b) a rabid trans woman whose transition goals are lain from serial experiments lain
c) both

Fun incremental coding puzzle game, set in a dystopian future where everyone writes JavaScript that take several GB of RAM for the smallest tasks.