Getting started_

Welcome to thehack.online! This short guide walks you through your first minutes in the game: what you see on screen, what the numbers mean and what to do first.

Your account

Sign up for free, confirm your email address and log in: you land in the Hideout, your base. The first time you log in a short tutorial shows you around.

Your profile

The profile panel (on the right, or at the bottom of the screen on mobile) is your dashboard. You always have it under your eyes, wherever you are.

• Level and experience: every successful attack gives you experience; when the bar is full you level up and unlock new attacks and items.
• Money: you start with 1000 $. You earn more with attacks and spend it in the shops.
• Skills: technique, intelligence, deceit and velocity. Together with your hardware they make up your attack power.
• Stamina: every attack consumes some. It refills by itself, a point at a time, in about an hour.
• Addiction: it grows when you take drugs. When it is full you can't take any more.
• Felony: it grows when an attack goes wrong. At 100 you end up in jail.

Getting around

Open the menu with the button at the top left: from there you reach every place in the game, from the attacks to the shops.

At the top right you also find the global chat, your messages and the settings.

Your first steps

1. Go to the Hardware Store and buy some basic components: at the beginning they are what makes the difference.
2. Launch the easiest attacks, the ones with a high success probability.
3. Reinvest what you earn in more hardware and in books that improve your skills.
4. Keep an eye on felony and addiction, and remember that every round has an end.

Tip: don't burn all your stamina on attacks you are likely to fail. A failed attack gives you nothing but felony.