Planned Release Date: October 2026

About This Game

JACK IN

NIGHTWIRE is a dark, tactile incremental about building a data-theft operation from a single machine in a dark room — and about the person you become while doing it.

You wire up a living rig: harvesters that pull stolen data, processors that refine it, and fences that sell it. You route it all by hand on a grid, watch the light flow down the wires, and turn a trickle of dirty bytes into an empire.

THE BLACK MARKET BREATHES

Prices on the underground Exchange move on their own. Hold your loot for a spike, dump it before a crash, and read the market like a trader who can't afford to be caught. Every sale leaves a trail.

HEAT IS THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING

Every byte you move raises your Trace. Pack your rig too tight and it cooks; buy VPNs, Tor relays and Heat Sinks and you can bleed it off — but you can never buy your way out entirely. Push too hard and the raids come.

CLIMB, THEN BURN IT DOWN

• Climb 20 ranks of the netrunner underworld, unlocking new machines, tools and a branching ARPG-style skill tree.

• Run crew and jobs, take down rival organizations, and manage the risk of every score.

• When the heat gets unbearable, take a New Identity — burn everything, keep your mastery, and come back stronger.

THE REVENANT

Every identity you burn, the system keeps. One of them didn't stop running.

A third of the way in, a ghost of a self you discarded reaches into your wire — and it knows exactly how you think, because it is you, sharpened. It hunts you across five escalating confrontations, from cryptic messages to full multi-stage boss battles fought on your own rig: survive its assault, out-muscle it in a will-clash, crack its core, and land the finishing blow — while it taunts, adapts, and fights back.

Beat it and the story ends four different ways. Then burn another identity, and find out what the net makes of you next.

FEATURES

• A rig that feels alive — hand-wired node graphs, flowing data, a breathing circuit-board world.

• A living market you have to read, not just click.

• Trace vs. throughput — a real spatial puzzle where greed and safety pull against each other.

• A full narrative boss arc with real-time combat, set-piece minigames, and four endings.

• Prestige that re-arms the story — the cycle never truly ends.

• No fluff — a self-contained game that respects your time and your attention.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

NIGHTWIRE uses generative AI as a writing assistant during development. Portions of the in-game text — including narrative and story dialogue — and some store-page copy were drafted with AI assistance and then reviewed, edited, and finalized by the developer. All content in the game is human-directed and human-approved.

The game's audio is procedurally generated through code (real-time sound synthesis), not produced by generative AI. The game's visuals are not AI-generated. NIGHTWIRE does not use any generative AI while you play — the game is fully self-contained, and no AI content is generated at runtime.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

NIGHTWIRE is set in a fictional cyber-underworld and is built around stylized cybercrime: you build a data-theft operation, launder stolen data on an illegal black market, and evade law enforcement. This criminal activity is core to the game's fantasy and is presented in an abstract, systems-driven way — through nodes, meters, and markets — rather than through graphic depictions.

Violence is abstract and non-graphic. Confrontations play out through on-screen integrity meters, data intrusions, and timing- and logic-based minigames. There is no blood, gore, or depiction of physical injury.

The story carries a dark, tense, psychological tone. Its central arc involves confronting a hostile "ghost" of a discarded version of yourself, and it explores themes of identity, memory, loss, and self-erasure — including story choices and endings about deleting, merging with, or letting go of that other self. Some players may find these existential, identity-related themes intense.

NIGHTWIRE does not contain sexual content or nudity, sexual assault or non-consensual content, or depictions of self-harm, suicide, or drug or alcohol abuse.