DARKNODE

INITIATION

A line-of-sight puzzle. Find the dark nodes before they find you.

A sparse, no-guess take on the Minesweeper formula. Every board is a Vector — hand-verified to be solvable by pure deduction. Read the hints, trace the lines of sight, and neutralise every node on the grid.

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Out now · Android · Free

One Vector, start to secured

Same board, three moments. Read the hints, trace the lines of sight, mark every dark node — no guessing required.

Opening of a Vector: a sparse cyber grid with a few revealed hint cells and walls
Open the grid
Mid-solve: more cells revealed and several dark nodes marked with neutralise icons
Trace the lines, mark the nodes
Secured board: every safe cell revealed and all dark nodes neutralised
Vector secured

More of the system

Dark Node boot/uplink splash screen
Boot up
Home screen showing the current Vector and Scan Log progress
Your current Vector
Scan Log view listing Vectors with secured/locked states
Work through a Scan Log

What makes it tick

No guessing, ever

Every Vector is verified solvable by deduction alone. Stuck means you missed a clue — never that the board cheated.

Line-of-sight hints

Beyond plain adjacency: hints that see down rows and diagonals, count clusters, and track runs. A deeper deduction space than classic sweeping.

Scan Logs & Vectors

Hand-tuned packs of levels that ramp from cold-boot basics to knotty multi-hint boards. Clear one to unlock the next.

A toolkit, not luck

Surge Guard, Cue, and Threat Map — limited-charge helpers for the tight spots when a board turns hostile.

Built for the phone

Portrait, one-handed, tap to reveal and long-press to mark. Boards cap at a comfortable size so nothing gets unplayable.

A story in the signal

Story panels break between Vectors — a handler on the line, a breach that wasn't in the test plan. The grid is the mission; the plot is why.

Out now · Android

Download now

Dark Node: Initiation is out now on Google Play — free. Install and jack in, Operator.

Get it on Google Play

“No romance, cadet. Just raw deduction. Let’s see what you can do.” — Vance