Hypnospace is a wonderful simulation of early internet. The ethereal, untouchable mystery that lurks in the fog of bad html and new discovery. Almost spiritual depictions of unknown tech that people were finally able to broadcast their thoughts and hobbies widely on. Trifles of the mundane enshrined in pages along low res gifs, elevated on a marble platform jpg to mythic status.

It captures the weirder discoveries of the late 90s, early 2000s net perfectly in a way that is becoming rarer and rarer. It also has a lot of great writing and adventure game puzzles that really make you hearken back to the days where you would be doing the thing youre doing in the game: genuinely scouring pages for a specific file with not much in the way of tools to help you, peeking into others' lives on a pre-social media canvas, dodging flame pages between users. It also has an interesting plot that can be largely ignored, giving another authentic flavor to the experience that resolves in a pretty interesting way.

Aesthetically and sound design/soundtrack wise it is truly perfect.

I don't know if ill 100% the postgame but im deeply considering it considering i explored it to death and still omly viewed around 60% of pages available in hypnospace. Definitely play it if you get the chance