- Small fix - 25 July 2026
Good afternoon! I just pushed an update on both the game and the demo to fix a bug that I finally have been able to reproduce 😅 Sometimes, the game would prevent you from changing language, it's now fixed! Have fun with the game, Elanis
- Regional Prices update following Steam Recommendation - 28 March 2026
Good afternoon!Like 3.5 years ago with this news: I'm updating the regional price of both my games, following the new recommendation Valve published yesterday evening. That means a change of between -20% and +20% depending on the currency. There are only 2 currency I'm manually overriding: - Euro (it stays at 4.99€, a few dozen cents under Valve recommended price) - Polish Zloty (it stays at 17.99, a few units under Valve recommended price) Otherwise, any other currency follow new Steam recommended prices for a $4.99 game. You can see price variations on SteamDB by selecting your currency: https://steamdb.info/app/1299430/ Thank you and enjoy the game :) Elanis
- Quality of Life + Improved simplified chinese version - 22 October 2025
Hello! Yeah, I know, it's only been 10 days since the 5th anniversary post and update and I already do another update?!The community has been actively playing (and contributing), so here I am with another update for the game! Changes:Updated the simplified chinese version thanks to @ScorIsAFox on Github!#1944 - Improve paste behavior (thanks to x0rld for his bug report!): pasting now happens at the cursor position#1945 - Prevent pasting non-breaking space and replace them with "standard" space character. It should prevent some issue when pasting IP Adresses while you playFix a minor issue in the demo that could create some bugs at the very end (but not sure it has ever happened!)Stopped using google fonts (why was it a thing ?), and started using a local copy of the ttf fileAdded a new file easter egg (chat003.txt)#1943 - Fix Steam cloud save preventing from using Escape or "exit" to qu…
- 5th anniversary, Quality of Life update, and all-time low price! - 12 October 2025
Good afternoon!On October 30th, 2025, Extortion will be 5 years old! What an experience it has been since. This game was supposed to be a small experiment to discover how Steam worked, learn everything from behind the scenes, sell to a few dozen people, and yet, you've been more than 1300 to buy the game and 22400 people to claim the demo over time.So I want to say: Thank you! This game, along with the other one I released (and the ones I plan to release) made me live some unbelievable moments, and I hope to live even more later! 5th anniversary updateToday, I released a small update (because there's almost nothing left in the todo-list 😅), but I want to keep updating and adding small stuff once in a while to the game. Here are the changes:Social Media links in Menu: Remove Twitter, remove Patreon, add Bluesky, update the YouTube linkSet up some dedicated pages on my Games Wiki dedicat…
- New Quality of Life update - 26 October 2024
Hello! Extortion will be 4 years old next week ! I've been working on some quality of life fixes today to change my mind from working on Manufactur'inc demo, my factory management game. Lots of things we talked about in the Steam Forum, on Discord and in early october IRL convention (my first one!). Changes: #1822 - Handle ~ and $PWD when navigating in folders / opening files Fix save delete image on small screens #1823 - When restoring a save it sometimes miss informations #1820 - SCP should handle multiple arguments and download them all #1775 - You are not able to go in the parent directory of "/" anymore #1773 - Autocompletion doesn't work with clearLogs command #1660 - User shouldn't be able to type while commands are running #1659 - When a user doesn't exist, passwordBruteForce shouldn't reply "Password found: ?" but an error #1658 - Fullscreen/Windowed modes #649 - Copy/Paste (se…
- Simplified Chinese Localization + New Translation system - 16 December 2023
Hello there! One month ago, on Github, one of you submitted a draft to translation extortion to Simplified Chinese. I am extremely happy people take this time to translate the game into their language, so I took time to (try to) review everything and improve the translation system to have a qualitative version. This update carries a stable version of this simplified Chinese version as well as the new translation system. Wait! I found a bug. How do I give feedback? On a new post in the Steam forum On Discord I also want to talk about another project I am working on. If you like industry management games where we talk about ethics, optimizations, and lots of other stuff, take a look at my next game, Manufactur'inc. There already have two DevBlog about the game, and two more are planned in the following weeks! If you're interested in the game, please wishlist and/or follow it! It would mea…
- [Beta] Simplified Chinese and new translation system - 9 December 2023
Hello there! One month ago, on Github, one of you submitted a draft to translation extortion to Simplified Chinese. I am extremely happy people take this time to translate the game into their language, so I took time to (try to) review everything and improve the translation system to have a qualitative version. I already applied this version to the Store page and achievements, but I am now here to ask players (you!) for help with the game itself. Since I had to change lots of stuff, this specific update will also impact French, English, and Swedish versions in addition to this new Simplified Chinese version. So, what am I asking? Download the beta version and launch a new game (this is important, it won't affect already done actions in-game), and play the game. If you notice any issues with the text formatting or content, I'd love to hear from you before I release this update. So, how t…
- Quality of life update - 2 October 2023
Hello there ! Here we are for a new update for Extortion ! Changelogs: Game now have multiple save slots Added new folder names (for new saves only) Added new files (for new saves only) New jokes Removed Galactae file because the game is no longer developed Added a file about Manufactur'inc Updated social networks links: Removed reddit Added mastodon Added Patreon Updated Twitter link Updated developer dependencies Don't forget you can see current open issues and future content I may add or update here: https://bugs.dysnomia.studio/projects/hacking-game/roadmap Have Fun ! Elanis
- Announcing Manufactur'inc - 28 September 2023
Hello everyone ! Almost 3 years after Extortion release and a year and a half after Alchemistry release, I'm happy to announce that I will release a new Steam Game ! Manufactur'inc is a company and industry abstract management game. That means that you will have to grow, blueprint, optimize, and control your company to reach your objectives and compete with other players. But achieving financial success won't be the sole purpose of the game since you will be able to make choices about ecological impact, worker happiness and a lot of other things as well ! You can check out Manufactur'inc on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2146380/Manufactur_inc/ If you're interested by the game, please wishlist and follow the game page ! You can also join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/c8aARey ! And of course, I will continue to update existing games with new features every few month…
- Quality of life update - 10 February 2023
Hello ! Here's a small update containing few things including a feature someone asked on Discord earlier this week. Changelogs: - Update translations (French / English), multiple typos, spelling and grammar mistakes fixed. Thanks to @Bethoth on Github - #1475 - Fix a bug preventing from scrolling into credits - #1556 - Scale game text based on a user setting Housekeeping: - Moving repositories to Github - Re-creating auto-build and deployment - Updating dependencies (tools I use, and libraries used to make this game) Don't forget you can see current open issues and future content I may add to update here: https://bugs.dysnomia.studio/projects/hacking-game/roadmap Have Fun !
- Price update following Steam Recommandation - 25 October 2022
Hello ! As you can see on Steam right now, recommanded prices have been updated by Valve for developers. Immediatly with theses recommanded prices, I adjusted price of both Dysnomia games to keep the same euro price. What does that mean ? Most prices will fluctuate between -15% and +20%: - US Dollar prices lowered by 17% to 4.99$ (-1$) - British pound prices lowered by 11% to 4.29£ (-0.5£) - Canadian dollar prices lowered by 3% to 6.49$ (-0.2$) - Russian ruble increased by 29% to 200₽ (+46₽) And so on You can see price variations on SteamDb by selecting your currency: https://steamdb.info/app/1299430/ Have fun ! Elanis
- Small improvements & bugfixes - 23 April 2022
Hi ! Here's a small update after some bug reports this week. Added: - Social network links in main menu - Translation contributors in credits Improvements: - Increase latest bank server firewall time from 10 to 12 seconds, "The Flash" achievement should be easier to be unlocked Fixes: - #1440 - Fix passwordBruteForce when target server doesn't exists - #1439 - "The flash" seems not to be able to be unlocked Have fun ! Roadmap: https://bugs.dysnomia.studio/projects/hacking-game/roadmap
- Swedish Localization - 9 April 2022
Hello ! It's been a while I have Swedish localization on my computer but I had to finish them. I worked on it today, and here we are with an update :) This update also embed some developer dependencies update. Changelogs Added: - Swedish Localization - Button in settings to open Localization Github page Improvements: - English Localization - Updated some developer dependencies Have fun ;)
- Alchemistry is taking part of Steam Next Fest - 22 February 2022
Few hours ago began Steam Next Fest, a Steam event showing upcoming games demos. I take part to this event with Alchemistry, if you are interested by my game, take a look at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730540/Alchemistry/, add it to your wishlist, follow community hub, and so one. I will also do two livestream on Tuesday 22th all day long (CEST time) and on Saturday 26th day on Steam and Twitch ( ), don't hesitate to take a look and talk a bit if you want :) Thanks, and have fun !
- 1st birthday update ! - 31 October 2021
Hello ! Yesterday was the 1st birthday of Extortion Release. I worked a bit during the last weeks to make a small update and improve game architecture to make next updates easier. There will be still updates, you can follow next update(s) roadmap at: https://bugs.dysnomia.studio/projects/hacking-game/roadmap Have fun ! ---- Full changelog: Improvements: - #1104, #1106 - Improved French texts (better wording, fix typos) - #1106 - Improved English texts (better wording, fix typos) - Improved game files support for new languages - #946 - Added more automated tests to the game (especially around autocompletion) - Updated technical dependancies to improve performances & safety - Improved console design - Improved text contrast Added: - #1023 - Narrator message when firewall goes to 0 - #1238 - Added update automation to make me easily update the game
- 1 year later - Dev Q&A / Update Steam - 30 October 2021
Join me on twitch to talk about Extortion developement, next steps and story ! https://www.twitch.tv/elanis42
- Alchemistry - 29 September 2021
Hi ! I'm glad to announce my future game, called Alchemistry ! It's a puzzle and less niche game than Extortion and I hope you'll like it. Check it out at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730540/Alchemistry/ Don't worry, Extortion is not dead, I'm planning an update in the next months, probably around the first anniversary. Have fun ! Elanis
- Jan 31st - Minor Update - 31 January 2021
Fixes: - Commands are not always stored in history Improvements: - Save icon when the game is saving Have fun !
- Nov 27th - Minor Update - 27 November 2020
Fixes: - "Day XX" achievements were broken and automatically unlocked Improvements: - Added an explanation about "bruteforce" - Improved the "Repeat the previous instructions" step - Added new UI sounds Have fun !
- Nov 6th - Minor Update - 6 November 2020
Fixes: - We should save all servers instead of only local one - "type help to" should be in color - New game after old game is completely broken - cat is sometimes broken Improvements: - Add random files in servers - New end screen Have fun !
