PC Gaming

I last played it in 2021. Steam says I have the achievement "Complete every task in the main campaign", but I seem to recall not finding this game as fun as the other Zachtronics games.

1. Yes, many Steam games use a few API calls to integrate with Steam, such as seeing your friend list, usually to invited them to a multiplayer game. Hit shift-tab to see the Steam overlay in any game to get an idea for what this API can do.

2. They are a measure of the cost of your solution. They account for things like how many total squares you touched, how many total instructions were executed, and how much parallelization you had.

Size is how many lines of code in your solution

Cycles is how long your program takes to finish

Activity is how much you had to interact with the target system.

They're measures of your solution's efficiency. A low size program fits on simpler hardware. A low cycles program can do a hack faster, and do more hacks in the same time. A low activity program is harder for security systems to detect.

Loved this game! Really liked the cyberpunk vibes and even printed out the zines into little booklets. It’s been a while since I played but what kind of questions did you have?

Haven't played it (probably in my wishlist), so I can't help directly, but I can offer this: go ahead and ask the questions. If someone else around here has, then they can jump in to comment with advice and answers at any point in time later.

One of the perks of forum-style comms like this.

Me. Love this game.
So much so sometimes when I'm bored at work I hear the Apartment theme playing in the back of my head