Uplink Review (GurkenbauerTim)
First things first, get UplinkOS. It's a free mod that greatly overhauls the entire UI and makes it look like a modern game.
I think Uplink is a great game and I had tons of fun playing it! The reason this review is negative is because this game has perma-deaths. I’m sure there’s people out there that enjoy the 'thrill' of having hours worth of progress wiped with a singular mistake, but I’m not one of them.
For a moment you were scanning a LAN network, slowly unlocking your path to the central mainframe, logging in with a voice clone you made when calling the admin, to destroy it. In the next moment you're clicking a single button, wait, log in as admin and delete a single file. Does that sound fun?
I really wish this game would offer auto-saves to go back to, or a "New Game+" where you get a higher budget and more advanced missions from the get-go. I just don't want to have to replay these boring tutorial missions to get back to the fun stuff.
If you’re not bothered by perma-deaths (or are willing to manually back up your save file regularly) then definitely give this game a try!