Wire up a data-theft rig, launder stolen bytes on a live black market, and climb the netrunner underworld one burned identity at a time — until a ghost of who you used to be logs on, learns how you fight, and comes for the only chair that fits one of you.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Nightwire costs $9.99 right now.
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The lowest recorded price is $8.99. It's 11% higher right now. It has gone on sale 1 time in the past year. The next big Steam sale, the Steam Winter Sale, starts in 34 days. This is for reference, based on past price records, and doesn't guarantee future prices.
Recommended: Graphics card Modern integrated (Intel Iris Xe) or any dedicated GPU, Processor Quad-core, 2.5 GHz (Intel Core i5 8th-gen / AMD Ryzen 5 or better), Memory 8 GB RAM. Minimum: Graphics card Integrated graphics with hardware acceleration (Intel HD Graphics 4000 or equivalent), Processor Dual-core 2.0 GHz (Intel Core i3 ~ 2015 / AMD equivalent), Memory 4 GB RAM. Save your PC specs on Wish9 to compare them with this game instantly.
