The game powered by your life. Complete real tasks, synergize your hardware and wetware, defeat the oligarchs. Give the corporate dystopia and your life a Hard Reset.
Hard Reset - The Game Powered by Your Life
This isn't gamified productivity. It's not badges for brushing your teeth. Hard Reset is a full cyberpunk roguelike deckbuilder that happens to be powered by your real-world accomplishments.
Your Life Fuels the Fight
Every real task you complete earns Action Points (AP). Use them to move through the city, attach new hardware, mod your cyborg body, and unleash devastating combos against the oligarchs and their henchmen controlling a dystopian city.
Deep Roguelike Gameplay
- Procedurally generated runs ensure every attempt feels fresh
- Build synergistic decks from cybernetic hardware and wetware insights
- Permanent meta-progression unlocks new cards, abilities, and story paths
- Three acts culminating in a final Act IV boss fight
A Narrative That Matters
You're a cyborg resistance fighter battling through a corrupt city to free the people from the Oligarch's rule. Each death brings resurrection via recloning. A cast of animated characters with their own agendas and stories unfolds as you make friends and enemies. Nothing is as it seems in this twisting story.
Based on Behavioral Science
Designed using principles from contingency management therapy, Hard Reset transforms task completion into genuine gameplay. This isn't a checklist with RPG elements bolted on—it's a complete game that harnesses your real-world momentum.
Features:
Strategic deckbuilding with meaningful choices
A checklist which supports basically every possible task/routine type
Animated cyberpunk art for all major characters and most cards
No ads, no manipulative monetization
Created by a solo developer obsessed with checklists
Wow. Just wow. Truly an amazing app that will help you tackle any to do list while having fun. I always felt like there should be a more fun way to approach to do lists and building habits, and this is it! There are other apps that try to gamify growth and productivity (e.g., habitica), but they aren’t actually that fun or truly game-like. Hard reset is a legitimately fun standalone game, and I found it to be genuinely fun and motivating. Well done devs! Can’t wait to keep using this.
Great solo dev effort
GROGPOD Roguelike Podcast
Making games is hard, doubly so if you’re the only on the team. I’ve been following developments this for a long time and it’s really grown on me. Striking, unique art, interesting gameplay decisions, fun enemy designs, it’s all here! The combination design of productivity app plus Slay the Spire-like mechanics makes for a fun and unique experience, too. Lots of cool stuff on the horizon for this one!
Absolutely Incredble
Yacapo21
Probably the coolest app I’ve ever come across. Very motivational and very fun with a cyberpunk vibe I’m in love with. Love the cards, the character building and the progression.
- Insights auto-learned; no brain slots
- Elite/Boss rewards: pick Chrome or Insights
- New card: Grit (wetware, grants block)
- 50 Cred trade-in when replacing hardware
- Starter hardware rebalanced; Neosteel Jaws improved
- Various UI & bug fixes
Version 0.3.18
The developer, William Thaddeus Wright, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Contact Info
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