CHRONOS
An escape room played entirely through a terminal.
You are locked in an isolation chamber with one console and a 60 minute purge timer. The way out runs through real machines from fifty years of computing: a 1977 PDP-11, an Apple II BBS, Usenet in 1988, the early web, and beyond.
Every era is a hacking puzzle built from the tools of its day, and what you take from one machine is what gets you into the next. Every command you type is period accurate. If you have ever used ed in anger you will feel at home. If you have not, the machines will teach you.
No accounts, no downloads, nothing to install. Best played on a desktop with a real keyboard. Also playable at www.chronos-game.com.
60 minutes. One console. Get out.
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im really not sure what i'm doing in this. it's cool but there really needs to be more instruction. i got really stuck at the 2000 part and got one lock undone (i didn't get what i did) because I wasn't sure what to do with the information I got. it didn't seem like it fit anywhere and then you cut the man command in that part for whatever reason. i want to enjoy this and i get the simple instruction is part of the game but god damn it's an overload of information and commands and it's really hard to know when to use what or especially which time you get to.
the WNT box, it's basically a sql injection exploit, if you type anything in REGCON.EXE you can see the query in logs, the solution is in the 1988 box in the new comp.risks
Not a huge fan of the ai assistance, but this is genuinely a solid terminal game, especially for n00bs like myself
Thank you, spent a lot of time this, check out CHRONOS II if you liked it.
after a few attempts, this is VERY solid actually. I am a complete noob-sicle so I haven't beaten it just yet, I was so close just now though (the last step I completed was "found the vault.cgi injection — 1995"). The game is smooth, it has legitimate lore all over the place, cool hxr vibe all around. Dare I say, the best terminal game I've gotten to learn from and have some fun with at the same time.