ECHO-NET // BLACKBOX 3161

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One terminal is still lit. Log in._

A text-driven terminal game. 2041. A research complex that has been dark for five years. No graphics card required. Only a keyboard and patience.

transmission

You wake up with no memory, in a building that was sealed five years ago. The only light in the room is a terminal screen.

The network behind it should be empty. It is not. Read carefully. Logs lie. Timestamps lie less.

"Nothing is ever truly gone."
— recovered from a backup tape

> 4 actsEach one opens new hosts and new commands.

> old hardwareTape, modem and a 2 MB terminal. Nothing else fits in there. That is the point.

> real puzzlesOld encodings, damaged records and logs that contradict each other.

> several endingsWhat you do decides which one.

known hosts

MAIN_SERVER	online	Entry point. Logs everything.
RESEARCH_LAB	online	Experiment records. Not all of them agree.
ARCHIVE_01	sealed	Someone moved files here in a hurry.
CORE-A1	locked	Still running. Nobody has logged out.

demo terminal

guest@blackbox: ~--:--:--

guest@blackbox:~$

Type help. Tab completes, ↑ ↓ walks the history. This is a demo shell, not the game.

devlog

• 2026-10Story and puzzles rebuilt from scratch. Every ending reachable in the test build.
• 2026-10Boot sequence: tape, modem and a terminal that remembers its last shutdown.
• 2026-04Development resumed from old tapes of the project.

Release: when it is ready. Leave an address and we will ping you once — no newsletters. The address is stored on our own server, used for that one message and then deleted.

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