About This Demo

NODE: PROTOCOL - A fully immersive hacking sim based on real exploits and C2 tools. Choose missions or pure free-roam. The world adapts to your every move, and strikes back.

You don't need real-world cyber experience; the game teaches you every tool and tactic from the ground up.

The demo

The NODE: PROTOCOL demo gives you 80 targets to hack and missions to run until you reach Trust 5. Real terminal, real tools, real techniques.

Description:
The demo puts you in front of a working terminal with 80 targets to break into and contracts to run up to Trust 5. You scan networks, find and exploit vulnerabilities, crack passwords, and move from one machine to the next using the actual tools and commands. No fake hacking minigames. You type it yourself.

• 80 hackable gateways ( more on lan ) 

• Tutorial to get started

• Missions up to Trust 5

• A real linux command-line terminal 

• Advanced help features and explanations 

• Real tools and techniques: scanning, exploitation, password cracking

Key gameplay (FULLGAME)

• Realistic terminal hacking pipeline; research. 95+ commands. More than 85 authentic exploits including rootkits. 

• Physics-Driven Hardware - Real-time thermal simulation, power draw, GPU load, noise, and throttling. Overheat mid-hack and your rig literally slows down.

• Living Trace & Heat System. Every action leaves dual-track logs (network + filesystem). Heat builds, trace speeds up, LTE burner failover, VPN phone-home risk, and full Fed Raid consequences that strip progress but never end the game.

• Economy & Crypto - volatile in-game crypto economy., tainted wallets, multi-tier tumbling, blockchain forensics missions, and on-the-fly mining on compromised servers.

• 250 Domains,  2,250+ Persistent targets, containing over 2,000 LAN nodes. Every server is real. High variety of OS layers, including vlans and security devices.

Advanced systems: 

• SIGINT & Phone Warfare - Signal Decoupler app: IMSI catching, SS7 exploits, Pegasus zero-click iPhone chains, MFA interception, evil_twin and live waterfall spectrogram.

• Cobalt Strike C2 + Postal Delivery - Deploy beacons, run phishing campaigns, and physically deliver BadUSB/Rubber Ducky payloads via courier with customs risk and tracking logs.

• 5 Ruthless Rival Hackers, reach high trust and they start harassing you - eliminate them permanently or get hunted.

• Dynamic Botnet & DDoS - Infect servers with bots or automate this with worms, launch city-wide attacks, and manage CSI detection index.

Multiplayer & Social Layer

• Full Co-op Crew Mode (up to 4 players) Shared exploits, proxy chains, crew operations (root entire LANs together), real-time MeshLink chat + voice, host-authoritative sync, and crew leaderboards.

• CTF, (Wargames) with up to two teams competing for the same target network. Can be played 2vs2, 3vs3, 4vs4. With leaderboards. 3 different matches, Sprint, Standard and Endurance. 

• Property Empire. Own 15 safehouses with unique bonuses, trace reduction, hash rate boost, EMP shield, raid protection. 

Mission & World Design

Targets real persistent infrastructure with massive variety in outcomes. Missions include;

• 33 Mission Types, that are replayable with variety in targets and outcome. Hack banks, government agency's, internet providers or shady underground forums.  

• Every mission triggers real world chaos, rivals react, corporations seek revenge, news spreads, and the entire game adapts. Play both sides of the conflict and watch how it ends. 

In collaboration with cyber.info

Every mission hits real infrastructure.

Every failure leaves a trace.

Every success makes you the most wanted hacker alive.

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“Uplink was the beginning. This is the endgame.”

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The fictional characters in the game are AI created images