HackBox

Version history

What’s new.

Version 2026.10.26 · A smoother start

Install, sign in, enter your lab.

  • The website now introduces the game, with download instructions, itch.io and upcoming mobile stores. The installed app opens on Enter Game, then sign-in.
  • Sign in with Google or a confirmed email and password. Existing GitHub accounts keep their legacy sign-in.
  • Free play ends after eight minutes of active gameplay or five seconds after closing Mara’s first campaign email, whichever comes first. No paywall on first entry.
  • What’s new appears in your room before onboarding. Faster room hints and cleaner PC entry/exit keep the terminal transition in place.
  • Privacy choices live in Settings. Analytics remains optional. Paid access and saved gameplay are preserved.
Version 2026.10.25 · Your Home Lab

A place to build your computer.

  • Explore your room, open a hardware delivery and place your computer on the workbench.
  • Fit and remove CPU, RAM and storage on the motherboard. Keep spare parts in your storage chest.
  • Look across Metro City from the window, with moving clouds and quiet town ambience.
  • Choose Glass or Terminal appearance. Adjust music and effects separately in Sound settings.
  • Paid players keep their PCs and progress after the new assembly sequence. Existing unpaid accounts restart the demo once, with eight minutes of play or until Mara’s first conversation closes.
  • Useful machine notes, shorter remote help, clearer empty directories and more reliable follow-up mail.
Version 2026.10.20 · Living Town

Follow the people. Keep the proof.

  • Named characters carry persistent computers between places on real Malaysia-time schedules.
  • The City Wire introduces the district. Mara and contract clients send clearer leads; you submit evidence, without dialogue choices.
  • Notes keeps important discoveries and quiet machine status tags. Empty investigations stay listed without a wall of steps.
  • Controlled player desktops show useful apps, a contact address and a read-only Bank balance.
  • Receive your in-game files from a controlled Terminal. Collected wallpapers can become a signature left behind.
  • Install temporary trackers or status beacons, inspect their reports and remove unwanted agents.
Initial releaseSeason 01 · Open Circuit

Welcome to HackBox.

  • A hacking puzzle game inside a pocket-sized simulated computer.
  • Explore Wi-Fi rooms, find machines, investigate weaknesses and follow the Open Circuit campaign.
  • Take contracts, collect rewards and upgrade your tools and hardware.
  • Play from your phone’s Home Screen. App Store and Google Play releases are planned.