60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Programming, Simulation, Hacking, Singleplayer.
A cellular automaton-like MMO game based on text terminals. Players will write unique cell reproduction logic and place cells in the vast cell world to grow, reproduce, compete, cooperate with other players' cells, and write their own species history.
Bitburner
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
Grey Hack
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Hacking 22.6% ★, Automation 15.4%, Text-Based 10.1%, Idler 8.1%
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
Why similar: Hacking 39.1% ★, Programming 30% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.2%, Typing 6% ★, Simulation 4.6%
Command line crafting game with procedurally generated crafting trees and programming-like automation.
Why similar: Programming 27.8% ★, Typing 16.8% ★, Automation 16.5%, Hacking 16.4% ★, Text-Based 13.7%
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
Why similar: Programming 34.5% ★, Automation 19.3%, Typing 16.5% ★, Text-Based 11.2%, Idler 9%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Programming 30.1% ★, Automation 18.9%, Word Game 17.5%, Typing 13.7% ★, Abstract 7.7%
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
Why similar: Programming 34.8% ★, Hacking 28.2% ★, Automation 19%, Text-Based 13.2%, Simulation 3.6%
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
Why similar: Programming 23.1% ★, Hacking 18.8% ★, Automation 13.9%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.8%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 37.3% ★, Programming 36.1% ★, Typing 21.2% ★, Simulation 5.3%
GODBOX is a coding god-sim where you program life, grow your power by unlocking divine domains, and compete against rival deities. Help your devoted Folk survive while you harness their faith to fuel your divine ascension.
Why similar: Programming 28.3% ★, God Game 19.9% ★, Colony Sim 13.4%, Automation 12.8%, Artificial Intelligence 9.7%
hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.
Why similar: Programming 35.6% ★, Hacking 33.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.7%, Text-Based 9.9%, Simulation 4.3%
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts. Rewrite them. Hack servers by writing actual code in a custom scripting language - probe ports, crack passwords, steal data, and get out before the trace completes. Better code = better hacker.
Why similar: Programming 30.5% ★, Hacking 30.2% ★, Typing 17.9% ★, Text-Based 9.5%, Simulation 5.1%
Incremental hacker about faking productivity while stealing from your employer. Sell intel for credits or keep it and raise suspicion. One bad audit and you’re back to Intern.
Why similar: Programming 27.7% ★, Hacking 26.7% ★, Automation 15.6%, Text-Based 10.5%, Idler 9%
In Void Future: Hacking Protocol, you play as a hacker in a cyberpunk world ruled by corporations. Hack, solve puzzles, and uncover a global conspiracy. Hunted by a system that never sleeps, you’ll need to stay hidden, outsmart surveillance, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Hacking 31.2% ★, Programming 19% ★, Typing 18.1% ★, Text-Based 11.4%, Minimalist 8.3%
Make a Snake AI using simple visual commands. Develop a strategy, let the computer do the hard work, sit back and watch it play the game for you.
Why similar: Programming 31.4% ★, Hacking 25.9% ★, Automation 17.7%, Artificial Intelligence 10.3%, Minimalist 6.9%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 41.6% ★, Hacking 26% ★, Typing 15% ★, Text-Based 9.4%, Simulation 7.1%
You've awoken deep within a research facility in a new, programmable robot body. You have holes in your memories. At least you no longer have that hole in your head...
Why similar: Programming 44% ★, Hacking 28.5% ★, Automation 22.1%, Simulation 5.4%
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Programming 35.2% ★, Hacking 22.5% ★, Automation 20.4%, Abstract 11.2%, Simulation 4.9%
Hacking Into Erebus is a terminal-based sci-fi hacking game where you remotely hack systems, manipulate the crew and uncover their secrets. Use every tool to your advantage. Extract what you need, complete the missions and uncover what’s in the Compartment Zero. Will you succeed ?
Why similar: Hacking 32.3% ★, Programming 30.8% ★, Typing 18% ★, Artificial Intelligence 8.4%, Simulation 6.2%
Code your territory's AI to make it prosper! Manage production and processing, strengthen your adventurers and let them explore! Can you prevent enemy invasion and win the war? This is a hex-based 2D game in which coded Lua scripts are registered with NPCs to run a territory.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, God Game 28.9% ★, Programming 17.1% ★, Idler 11.5%, Simulation 9.3%
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
Why similar: Programming 37.4% ★, Hacking 20.5% ★, Automation 13%, Typing 10.8% ★, Text-Based 5.9%
Solve programming puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication and unique limitations. Competitively optimize to compete on leaderboards against friends and the global community.
Why similar: Programming 43.6% ★, Hacking 22.5% ★, Automation 13.3%, Text-Based 7.7%, 1980s 5.3%
A story-rich hacking simulation set inside a full Linux desktop environment. Use real terminal commands, crack passwords, intercept traffic, and expose a secret autonomous AI program.. before it exposes you.
Why similar: Hacking 33.5% ★, Programming 32.5% ★, Typing 15.5% ★, Text-Based 9.8%, Simulation 7.2%
Are you ready to build your own torrent empire? Crack software, manage servers, dive into shady deals, and outsmart the authorities—all in the shadow of the 2000s. Balance risk and reward in this terminal-based strategy sim. Become a digital legend or lose it all!
Why similar: Programming 32.4% ★, Hacking 30.8% ★, Typing 19.5% ★, Text-Based 7.6%, Simulation 5.2%
HELLO HACKER features a realistic terminal. Use real Linux commands, network scanning, password cracking, and cryptography to infiltrate 10 interconnected servers and expose a deadly government surveillance program. Your colleague is missing. You're next. Are you ready to be a hacker?
Why similar: Hacking 32.8% ★, Typing 21% ★, Programming 18.8% ★, Text-Based 13.6%, Minimalist 7.3%
SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security! Optimize your programs to rise to the top of the leaderboards! SIC Systems thanks you for your hard work! Now please return to your desk.
Why similar: Programming 36.3% ★, Automation 15.5%, Hacking 13% ★, Text-Based 12.5%, Minimalist 9.9%
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
Why similar: Programming 48.1% ★, Hacking 30.7% ★, Automation 17.8%, Simulation 3.4%
In this tactical mash between Typing game and Tower Defense: Scan and Hack enemy defenses by typing fast, deploy your sentries, think fast to help your crew survive the AI assault all behind the screens.
Why similar: Programming 23% ★, Hacking 22.6% ★, Typing 18% ★, Word Game 14.6%, Artificial Intelligence 10%
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Why similar: Programming 42.4% ★, Automation 19.1%, Text-Based 11%, Idler 8.4%, Artificial Intelligence 7.7%
Become a Robotic Exploration Systems Programmer (RESP). Get sent to the corners of the galaxy and program robots like if your life depended on it, because it does.
Why similar: Programming 38.5% ★, Hacking 29.3% ★, Automation 19.6%, 1980s 6.6%, Simulation 5.3%
functional is a puzzle game about math and abstraction.
Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Text-Based 18.2%, Automation 17.2%, Minimalist 13.7%, Simulation 10.6%
Text Idle Game
Why similar: Word Game 29.5%, Automation 23.8%, Text-Based 19.7%, Idler 15.9%, Minimalist 6.2%
Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!
Why similar: Programming 38.1% ★, Hacking 22% ★, Word Game 16.3%, Text-Based 8.8%, Simulation 6.6%
《修炼成仙》是一款极简主义的文字挂机游戏。创建人物，踏上仙途，自动战斗，获取战利品，修炼功法，装备法宝，一步一步登上仙途，获得永生轮回。游戏永无止境，无需焦虑通关限制，即开即挂，随缘随心，修炼成仙。
Why similar: Word Game 30.3%, Text-Based 18.1%, God Game 17.3% ★, Idler 15.4%, Simulation 7.5%
You are Vigilantus, a genius hacker and former member of Runyan. Immerse yourself in a world run by corrupt corporations, politicians, and greedy pharmaceutical companies. Uncover dark political secrets. Battle systemic injustice. Redistribute wealth to the poor. Destroy entire corporations.
Why similar: Programming 28.4% ★, Hacking 25.7% ★, God Game 17.4% ★, Typing 11.1% ★, Artificial Intelligence 10.6%
You are a secret Agent who begins work for the Airem as Hacker. Hacking servers of global corporations for profit, stealing data, manipulate the stock market, modify peoples academic or criminal records, laundering money, erasing evidence, framing innocent people. Do not trust anyone.
Why similar: Hacking 39.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 21.4%, Typing 20.2% ★, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 5.3%
Hacker's Life is a game where you take the seat of a hacker, infect devices all over the world with malware, and join a hacker group to pull off bigger attacks. See your malware take control of the world and become famous for your hacking skills, but be careful not to get busted.
Why similar: Programming 37.1% ★, Hacking 34.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16.7% ★, Simulation 5.7%, Strategy 5.1%
This is a game that simulates farm management through programming. Players need to develop their economy, upgrade technology, unlock more advanced commands and resources, and deal with various uncertain destructive events. The game simplifies the complexity and extracts the automation elements.
Why similar: Programming 37.8% ★, 4X 24.1% ★, Automation 22.9%, Idler 4.7%, Text-Based 4.5%
Build production chains from words, optimize sprawling hex-grid systems, and harness the endless combinatorial depth of language.
Why similar: Word Game 26.3%, Automation 22.4%, Idler 13%, Text-Based 12.4%, Abstract 8.4%
ZIRQUITZ is a chill yet deep graph-building game. Build and optimize an evolving graph of nodes to produce “Work,” your resource for upgrades and expansion. Discover synergy, power up your network, and unlock endless potential!
Why similar: Hacking 23.3% ★, Programming 20.8% ★, Automation 19.8%, Abstract 17.4%, Minimalist 10.3%
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Why similar: Programming 44% ★, Automation 24.7%, Text-Based 8.8%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 5.9%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Programming 31.9% ★, Automation 28.7%, Hacking 17.8% ★, Idler 13.4%, Simulation 7.2%
Void Future: Prologue is a standalone free experience set in the universe of Void Future. Play as a hacker in a cyberpunk world ruled by corporations and complete a single, fully designed mission. Hack systems, solve puzzles,and uncover secrets — while staying hidden from a system that never sleeps.
Why similar: Typing 24.5% ★, Hacking 17.2% ★, Programming 13.5% ★, Text-Based 13.1%, Artificial Intelligence 10.2%
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Automation 21.7%, God Game 13.1% ★, Idler 11.4%, Text-Based 9.2%
cr4ckr is a puzzle game about cracking passwords.
Why similar: Hacking 37.7% ★, Typing 30% ★, Text-Based 16.4%, Minimalist 7.2%, Simulation 6.3%
这是一款文字挂机类修仙聊天小游戏，主打的就是上班摸鱼聊天挂机修仙。（注：这是一个多人在线的文字网游，非单机游戏!）
Why similar: Word Game 33.7%, Massively Multiplayer 22.7%, Idler 13.6%, Text-Based 10%, Simulation 9.6%
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Automation 22.3%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.9%, Idler 7.9%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Automation 21.5%, Abstract 20.9%, Simulation 6%, 2D 1.3%
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck. Learn its rules, solve clever challenges, and even run your code in an external terminal.
Why similar: Programming 53% ★, Automation 22.5%, Typing 13.6% ★, Text-Based 10.9%
You're a computer engineer with a terrible secret. Someone is blackmailing you and now, you have to hack some servers and get secret files for him. Would you succeed in achieving their missions or would you find them and revenge?
Why similar: Hacking 32.1% ★, Programming 28.2% ★, Typing 14.7% ★, Text-Based 9.5%, Simulation 6.9%
Program your team of AIs to infiltrate corporation servers and find your brother Hermann. This game is about the fun of coding and optimization. There is always something to improve.
Why similar: Programming 39.5% ★, Hacking 24.5% ★, Automation 18.3%, Abstract 11.3%, Minimalist 6%
No flashy visuals, just pure mental gymnastics. Actively search, cross-reference, and unravel the truth from a complex database. In this hardcore text-based deduction game, the devil is always in the details. Detective, are you ready?
Why similar: Hacking 30.9% ★, Word Game 23.6%, Typing 18.3% ★, Text-Based 16.7%, Strategy 4.3%
Hifuu OS: Immersive hacking simulator based on the Touhou Project. Play as Renko Usami, learn and use authentic terminal commands to hack into the Great Hakurei Barrier. Unravel the truth behind Maribel Hearn's mysterious coma as you search through Gensokyo's secret and private documents.
Why similar: Hacking 33.4% ★, Programming 21.8% ★, Typing 15.9% ★, Text-Based 15.7%, Minimalist 7.6%
HACKERGAME is a 2D terminal-based arcade hacking game and is currently in the early days of development.
Why similar: Hacking 34% ★, Programming 31.9% ★, Typing 18.5% ★, Text-Based 11.4%, Simulation 2.8%
After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.
Why similar: Hacking 51.5% ★, Programming 24.1% ★, Typing 17.2% ★, Simulation 7.2%
CTRL+ESC is a hacker-themed idle clicker where you exploit systems, crack encryptions, and build an unstoppable network of automated exploits. Click to hack, solve captchas and minigames to boost production, and unlock powerful upgrades as you progress through increasingly complex systems.
Why similar: Programming 19.9% ★, Hacking 19.5% ★, Text-Based 17.1%, Automation 15%, Idler 14.7%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Colony Sim 23.9%, Automation 18.4%, Minimalist 9.9%, Simulation 8%
Cyber Warrior is a hacking simulator where you play as an ex retired bureau agent recruited back to take on a powerful criminal organization. Explore dozens of interactive desktops, navigate 200+ in-game websites, solve puzzles, customize your setup and make decisions that will shape a new cyber age
Why similar: Programming 35.9% ★, Hacking 34.7% ★, Typing 21.5% ★, Simulation 3.9%, Strategy 3.2%
A programming puzzle game about helping a wizard reach his goal. Learn to use the rules to your advantage. Build contraptions. Optimize your solution.
Why similar: Programming 50.1% ★, Automation 30.3%, Minimalist 10.9%, Simulation 6.4%, 2D 2.2%
Reveal company secrets while hacking and exploring their quantum simulation networks. Fights for control with other players, coop with your faction, gather best tools, build most secure servers, write scripts and webs, or choose to be solo hacker who makes the right choices to change the world.
Why similar: Hacking 31.4% ★, Programming 28.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 18.6%, Text-Based 11%, Simulation 4.8%
A single player graphics-coding puzzle game for creative coders and coding creatives. Built for people who like their graphics coding low level and retro styled.
Why similar: Programming 50.5% ★, Hacking 36.6% ★, Simulation 7.8%, 1980s 5.2%
