WELCOME TO ROOTLINE

ROOTLINE is a multiplayer hacking and systems simulator set inside a collection of persistent, connected networks for you to explore, exploit and control.

The machines inside those networks have users, files and software running on them. Find a target, work out how it is configured, discover a way in and decide what to do once you have access.

START WITH THE TERMINAL

Learn your way around a Linux-inspired environment and use the same tools for everything from basic navigation to full network attacks.

ROOTLINE gives you tools and systems and lets you come up with the solutions.

TAKE THE JOB

Contracts give you a target and an objective. How you reach it is up to you.

Deface a website. Recover a file. Steal credentials. Compromise a machine. Investigate a network.

Jobs arrive through the same in-game systems you use everywhere else. Read the brief, investigate the target, complete the objective and submit the result to get paid.

Use your earnings to expand what you're capable of and take on increasingly difficult targets.

A PERSISTENT SHARED WORLD

ROOTLINE takes place in an online world shared with other players.

Machines, networks and services form part of a larger simulated internet and the world continues running when you disconnect.

The machine you find today may become infrastructure, a target or an opportunity tomorrow.

LEARN THE SYSTEM. THEN ABUSE IT.

Software in ROOTLINE is built from libraries that can contain vulnerabilities. Different versions expose different weaknesses and discovering one is only the beginning.

Resolve domains, scan ports, investigate running services and inspect process memory to identify vulnerable software, then piece together what you discover until you find a way inside.

As the world evolves, so does the attack surface.

MAKE YOUR OWN TOOLS

All of the software you will come across or use in ROOTLINE is built within ROOTLINE. 

Find the source and modify it, or write your own software, automate repetitive work and build tools around the systems available to you.

What begins as a command you type manually can become part of your own toolkit.

The more you understand ROOTLINE's systems, the more you can make them work for you.

THERE IS ALWAYS ANOTHER MACHINE

Take contracts, explore the network, follow strange domains and investigate unfamiliar services. Sometimes the most interesting targets are the ones nobody sent you looking for.

ROOTLINE gives you a simulated internet and the tools to pull it apart.