Dreamsettler, a time capsule of the pre-Facebook internet

Hypnospace Outlaw's creative director Jay Tholen returns with a sequel that promises more tongue-in-cheek fun for people old enough to remember GeoCities

It's been five years since Hypnospace Outlaw, Tendershoot's brilliantly wacky 90s internet simulator, and this spiritual sequel was announced two years ago. In the intervening time, with tech moguls snapping up social media giants, Reddit getting monetised (and in effect, censored) against the wishes of its user base, and the ever-growing presence of AI, the millennial generation's yearning for the algorithm-free wild west days of the early internet has only become more intense. At least that's how creative director Jay Tholen feels.

I thought it was already bad then, but I didn't know how bad it could get," Tholen says on the current state of the world wide web.

Dreamsettler will (hopefully) be released in 2025, on PC and Xbox Series X.