Bitburner, programming-based incremental game

https://bitburner-official.github.io/

by agmater • 2 months ago

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bitburner-official.github.io

agmater• 2 months ago

I've been playing this via Steam and having a lot of fun. It's very satisfying that you start simple and when you discover a new way you cleanly reset and do it better next run.

skinfaxi• 2 months ago

The only game I've ever hit all achievements in! Very fun though I felt an internal pressure to move quickly, similar to the feeling I get when my factorio base starts getting big.

wfurney• 2 months ago

Yep. It’s like Act 3 of Baldurs Gate 3, you feel the pressure from the world around you to go fast even though you could take as long as you want

chipsrafferty• 2 months ago

Doesn't work well on mobile.

burgerone• 2 months ago

Oh no

jamie_ca• 2 months ago

For anyone coming back, the 3.0 release this month changed some APIs (so you'll need to update your scripts) but also added a new Darknet mechanic.

srcreigh3• 2 months ago

This is a fantastic game, I’ve played many hours of it. If you want a programming based video game this could be really fun for you.

mwham• 2 months ago

10/10!

cautiouscat• 2 months ago

Woah! I loved this game on Steam. If anyone likes factory games (Satisfactory or Factorio) and programming this is a must try. Also got a bit of idle game in the mix. Surprisingly immersive too for a mostly text game.

srcreigh3• 2 months ago

Yep, the game has a fun offline idle mechanic as well as just leaving it running. However you should rarely need idle, if ever.

williamoforange2• 2 months ago

I see a lot of praise heaped on Factorio but I was underwhelmed when I played it, the game doesn't really capture what makes industrial engineering interesting for me, it seems more like software engineering wearing the face of traditional mech/chem/ind engineering. The way pollution is handled is also kind of insane (red overlay makes nodes mad now use gun kill...) and reflects more of the creator of the game and not any kind of objective reality for engineering.

Mond_• 2 months ago

May I ask how far you got? It's not a good representation of industrial engineering, for sure, but I do like the actual logistics management and "how do I deal with my technical debt" later in the game. I think most of this only really gets interesting once you use trains everywhere and build everything with bots.

foresterre• 2 months ago

I've played both Factorio and Bitburner extensively (both >1000h, but that's unfair wrt bitburner, because you let it run in the background sometimes), but I don't find they compare that well. Factorio can be played without any optimization and completely mechanically if you wanted (i.e. no "programming" of circuits). It's visual style also makes interfacing with the game more like most games you encounter.

In bitburner, you literally have sort of editor (or terminal), which is also the world (you can use an external editor though). The whole game is about programming your way to destroy a BitNode.

I guess they're comparable because they are both about optimization of bottlenecks. In my experience though, having played Factorio for hundreds of hours with software engineer friends, BitBurner with its text only interface is far more niche, and only the thought of playing it reminds some of them of work (so they don't try) ;).

hyperific• 2 months ago

Played the heck out of this a few years ago until I found the mother of all automation scripts...which took all the fun out of it.

jason_s• 2 months ago

oog -- I do programming for work, don't really want to delve deep into it in a game ;-(

srcreigh3• 2 months ago

There’s probably some new mechanics in there since years ago which would give some more fun.

ivanjermakov• 2 months ago

Remember playing it for 20ish hours 3 years ago. Is there enough new changes to do another run?

iamnotarobottho• 2 months ago

Such a good game, I have 1500 hours. It led me to make a benchmark on how well AI can orchestrate other AIs playing it. pretty funny to watch.

armitron• 2 months ago

Would be a lot better from every possible angle (immersion, depth, replayability) if it was sandbox multiplayer. Otherwise, I'd rather play TIS-100.

Bitburner, programming-based incremental game

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