Not quite the same but the Netrunner card game is an assymetric hacker vs corp game. It's... being revived via community support and has an active online scene I believe.
Edit: Netrunner not Nethack... oops
Edit: Netrunner not Nethack... oops
assymetric is when both buttchecks are not perfectly identical.
(Most of my own long term spelling problems are in this same format — I know there’s a double letter, butt I double the wrong letter. (Sorry))
At my job, this is something we are measured on. ( I work in a call centre, for a government complaints dept)
"The game took place in the setting for the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrunner
Yep, sounded familiar from the Cyberpunk RED game my tabletop group started recently. It's interesting to me how I just never heard of this setting for over a decade of playing TTRPGs and now it's seemingly everywhere.
> Netrunner is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) designed by Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering. It was published by Wizards of the Coast and introduced in April 1996.
CCG is a bit of a weird mention, as there isn't the typical RNG involved with buying the cards (like w/MtG) since you buy the entire set or expansion in once.
The game also has a spiritual successor: 'Android: Netrunner' [1]
Either way, I won't play physical card games anymore except those involving the basic set from A to K plus joker (whatever its name might be). Because those cards are cheaply replaced when playing with little kids. Otherwise, for multiplayer, a computer is OK. Same with tabletop RPGs.
The game lives on via a community version: https://nullsignal.games/products/system-gateway/ it's print and play or order cards, it has a core set and regular expansions. I don't know how vibrant the scene is but they seem to do regular work on it.