Hacking a terminal: targets, success chances, detection risk

About this game

Developer: Grid Sage Games · Publisher: Grid Sage Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

Terminal hacking in Cogmind is a menu with the odds printed on it. Every possible intrusion, stealing a lore record, querying the patrol status, seizing machine controls, is a lettered row with its success percentage set in orange, and the cost of trying is declared up front in one line: Chance of Detection: High (50%). The left panel narrates the attempt as a three-step log ('Scanning nodes... Building attack tree... Bypassing authorization...'), which turns a probability check into a procedure the player performs. The records on the list double as the game's codex: lore here is not a journal you open, it is data you break in and steal, priced by how hard the terminal fights back. Classified encyclopedia-codex because the terminal is Cogmind's records-and-lore system; the frame is the trailer's zoom into that screen, with the RESULTS panel continuing below the frame's bottom edge. Frame at about 0:32 in the Alpha Trailer (Steam; manual extraction).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

menu-list detail-panel risk-reward text-log

Components

Parts on screen.

Menu List Log Dice

Screen inventory

• three bordered panels divide the work: / HACKING / at left holds your side of the attempt, Utilities (Improved Hacking Suite, System Mapper, both tagged ACTIVE on green chips), System (Terminal vZr.10n, Familiarity: None (0), the None printed red), and Status, a live three-line log: 'Scanning nodes...', 'Building attack tree...', 'Bypassing authorization...'
• risk is a single plain line under the log: 'Chance of Detection: High (50%)', with High printed orange, the whole gamble of the screen is stated before you pick anything
• / TARGET / at right names the machine, Terminal M002 - Restricted Access, under one full-width orange bar, SECURITY LEVEL 2, the only large colour block on the screen, so the threat rating is the first thing read
• the target list is a keyboard menu, lettered a to z: records to steal (Record 'Recycling Unit' 65%, Record 'Materials' 55%, Record 'Solar System' 45%), live system queries (Alert Level 55%, Dispatch Records 45%, Security Status 30%, Patrol Status 30%, Transport Status 40%, Assault Status 30%) and interventions (Component Inventory 30%, Machine Controls 45%, Manual Command N/A), every option priced with its success chance in orange at the right edge, unavailable rows dimmed
• a third panel, / RESULTS /, opens along the bottom, still showing raw binary in this frame: output has its own permanent home on the same screen, so a hack is a conversation you watch, not a dice roll you confirm

Top 3 colors

#000000 62%#010500 17%#071f03 11%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Grid Sage Games, Cogmind screenshot: Steam trailer (Alpha Trailer), Grid Sage Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Grid Sage Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-27. verified 2026-10-27: manual extraction manual-hacking-32.png @ 32.0s in the Alpha Trailer, MD5 6c51ff1d99d83969ee01e5c3de1853c6, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (56,811,737 B, MD5 948d5564f6ea377f9cf7d30ca9622be9; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-722730-Alpha-Trailer.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the HACKING and TARGET panels, the SECURITY LEVEL 2 bar, all thirteen target rows and their percentages legible; disclosed in the study note: this is the trailer's zoom into the screen and the RESULTS panel continues below the frame's bottom edge; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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