Upload Labs - Computer Manager

EnigmaDev Studios

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Welcome to the Labs! In Upload Labs you are tasked to save the universe from the inevitable heat death. Use your ingenuity and power to build optimized systems using a node-based system. These nodes are window-like interfaces representing components and processes within your computer. You will connect nodes from output to input to control resource flow and data pipelines

Research: Scan files to unlock powerful new technologies via the research tree. There you will find game-changing nodes, innovative systems, and scientific milestones, all critical for achieving your ultimate goal.

Hack: Strategically engage in breaches of organizations through hacking. This provides access to critical intel, enables the disruption of opposing systems, and secures resources vital for your mission.

Code: Get contributors by committing important code, Implement custom solutions for your system by crafting code optimizations, developing custom applications, and programming essential drivers. These tools allow for precise tuning and automation, ensuring optimal performance.

AI Development: Cultivate and evolve an Artificial Intelligence by feeding it downloaded files for processing and learning. As the AI progresses, it will generate improved files, greatly boosting your income. Guide its development to ultimately achieve Artificial General Intelligence, a pivotal step in overcoming the universal crisis.

Ratings and reviews

Great fun game, really nice way to reward play and not make it just a "do three things then wait for offline progress" game. I do sometimes have trouble lining up connections exactly (especially when I have a lot of nodes) - with sight issues and big fingers it can be a little fiddly. as it's a brand new game, I'm sure these things will be resolved quickly though!

I gave it a go for like 15-20 minutes, and even by then I had no clue what I was doing. I mean I got the main idea, first Network was working fine and had made decent amount of money and upgrades. Then came the processor and all other stuff I absolutely had no idea what to do with. Poor tutorial, poor explanation for what might be a good game. But I am just not willing to read all the "?" stuff just to get te basic going. That's why it is 3/5. Too confusing or I am just lazy and dumb.

Paid microtransactions for various upgrades means the game is designed by the dev to steer people towards those microtransactions. This has to be true, otherwise the monetisation model doesn't work (and if it doesn't work, why is the dev using it). I will continue to skip every game that uses poor monetisation practices like this, and if players want to stop seeing this monetization model, they need to do the same thing. Imagine a world where a developer developed a game and I paid them.

What’s new

Increased minimum and maximum UI Scale
Increased minimum and maximum camera zoom
Current camera zoom is now saved between screen transitions
Camera movement caused by dragging nodes and connections now inversely scales with camera zoom
Added a save backup system
Fixed negative Trojan production
Fixed Expose Weakness keeping its Vulnerability value despite having 0 Hack Power
Fixed file size in file description displaying standard prefix notation instead of metric