Recent reviews by Jed

Great concept, but way too little content.

The game starts in the "vLAN", a tutorial zone where you're alone with NPCs and some features are locked (like scripting), until you complete the main quest, which lasts for about 2 hours (there are some nice shortcuts and secrets to find, so it can last a little longer, but it gets repetitive quite fast).

After that, you're released into the wild, free to interact with other players.
However once you've reached this point, you've pretty much exhausted the content the game has to offer.
You don't get quests like in the tutorial anymore. You can interact with others players, but you can't really hack them directly (although you can try to trick people into running a script you made to send your their cash or upgrades).

The main game seems to revolve around hacking NPCs, but the process is currently *very* repetitive, and almost impossible for new players (all resources are usually acquired a few minutes/hours after spawn, which happens only once per day).

The ability to create and share scripts is interesting, but without a goal most scripts end up being either crackers to automate the few tasks required to hack NPCs, small games or scams... (And is not accessible to new players, as some resources are required to start, which cannot be acquired, as all NPCs are grinded by a few players as soon as they spawn).

Currently, it feels more like a BBS/IRC channel mixed-up with a few user-made tricks than a game.

Which is a shame, because hackmud has a lot of potential, and could be a great game if it offered players something to do...
I'll definitely keep an eye on hackmud though.