
kOS is an old and broken operating system as your playground to solve a mystery involving sentient programs, physics shenanigans and ingenuity.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Indie, Hacking, Simulation, Puzzle.

kOS is an old and broken operating system as your playground to solve a mystery involving sentient programs, physics shenanigans and ingenuity.

Proxy - Ultimate Hacker
Out there is a world of corporate corruption and government lies. You are a lone hacker armed with a terminal and a personal proxy. Break in. Cause damage. Get paid.

Cyber Manhunt
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
Out there is a world of corporate corruption and government lies. You are a lone hacker armed with a terminal and a personal proxy. Break in. Cause damage. Get paid.
Why similar: Hacking 54.9% ★, Simulation 30.6%, Puzzle 11.5%, Indie 3%
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
Why similar: Hacking 44.3% ★, Simulation 20%, Mystery 16.7%, Puzzle 13.5%, Indie 4.4%
Delve into a gripping world of puzzles, true ciphers on an old PalmPilot system. Will you uncover the Crypt Killer’s confession and bring him to justice, or will he escape the law?
Why similar: Hacking 23.4% ★, Simulation 21%, Puzzle 13.1%, Mystery 11.3%, Retro 11%
When the number of computers in existence and their processing capacity exceeds that of all mankind, a point of technological singularity is encountered. A massive economic and systematic crisis hits the entire world. Nobody knows the exact cause, and all solutions to fix it, are failing.
Why similar: Hacking 56.7% ★, Simulation 35.7%, Indie 7.7%
From the creator of hack_me and dev_me, a continuation of the acclaimed hacker simulator in 2016 and 2017 - hack_me 3 is already on Steam!
Why similar: Hacking 52.1% ★, Simulation 36.3%, Indie 11.6%
Professor Meme, a renowned 164-year-old genetic scientist, receives a mysterious call for help from his old friend Gustav, the head of the animal research base on Zerulia, an inhospitable planet inhabited by ancient aquatic creatures: the Seazogs.
Why similar: Mystery 23.3%, Retro 19.3%, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 13.9%, Puzzle 13.5%
Hacker Evolution Duality is the hacking simulation game, developed by exosyphen studios. Based on the successful Hacker Evolution game series, it has been completely redesigned to offer an impressive and new gaming experience.
Why similar: Hacking 64% ★, Simulation 26.7%, Indie 9.2%
IO Interloper is a hacking heist game all about peering through security cameras, piloting drones, duping rubes, and saying I'M IN in a really gruff voice.
Why similar: Hacking 42% ★, Simulation 35%, Indie 11.2%, Puzzle 10.9%, Singleplayer 1%
Passcode Breaker: The Day Before is a casual puzzle game in which players try to crack passcodes to deactivate computers, inspired by classic board game Mastermind with different modes and mechanics for everyone to enjoy.
Why similar: Hacking 52.2% ★, Retro 20.9%, Puzzle 15.4%, Indie 11.6%
Things are not what they seem at your new tech support specialist job. While resolving customer issues, you soon find yourself in the middle of a conspiracy. Will you side with your employer, join a rogue hacktivist group bent on destroying them, assist the police or stand alone?
Why similar: Hacking 61.7% ★, Simulation 24.7%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 5.3%
NITE Team 4 is a military hacking simulation game that explores the world of cyberwarfare and features realistic mission scenarios.
Why similar: Hacking 64.8% ★, Simulation 18.4%, Puzzle 7%, Indie 5%, Adventure 4.9%
hack_me 2 is a story about hacker-beginner, who is going to confront to new World Order, where is no place for personal secrets.
Why similar: Simulation 52.2%, Hacking 41.5% ★, Indie 6.4%
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 55.3% ★, Simulation 16.2%, Puzzle 7.9%, Indie 5.7%, Adventure 5.6%
Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...
Why similar: Hacking 69.8% ★, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 10.1%, Adventure 9.2%
Our algorithm has chosen you for inclusion in the DECRYPTO project. Your job is simple: we send encrypted texts, you decipher them. Loyalty and diligence will be rewarded with upgrades and customization options for your system. Disobedience and sabotage will be punished.
Why similar: Hacking 27.2% ★, Mystery 21.8%, Simulation 18.1%, Puzzle 11.8%, Point & Click 8.8%
Mankind is about to reach its next step of evolution. Uncover the dark secret behind mankind's fastest technological evolution in recent history. It's not going in the right direction.
Why similar: Hacking 50.2% ★, Simulation 37.9%, Indie 11.9%
A retrieved obscure software from the late 90's that supposedly "renders anomalies in signals’ frequency spectra as 3D simulations".
Why similar: Simulation 22.5%, Mystery 19.8%, Puzzle 18.5%, Exploration 14.3%, Retro 13.9%
It's time for a SECOND Hack Run! Test your skills again as you hack your way through strange and secretive organizations to discover their hidden agendas! Hack Run ZERO uses old school prompts (like dos and unix) to help you navigate from system to system.
Why similar: Hacking 51.7% ★, Simulation 30.5%, Adventure 10.5%, Indie 7.3%
In this first-person puzzle exploration game, walk the liminal spaces of a long-abandoned service station. Reprogram aging computers, physically reroute damaged and fading connections and restore fragments of their waning memory.
Why similar: Hacking 42.5% ★, Puzzle 15.3%, Mystery 13.2%, Physics 13%, Exploration 7.7%
CAPTCHA Hell is a pixel art adventure puzzle game where you are just trying to buy a concert ticket, but the CAPTCHAs have other plans.
Why similar: Funny 18.5%, Simulation 17.9%, Mystery 17.4%, Puzzle 16.4%, Point & Click 9.9%
In a dusty, dilapidated town on the former Soviet steppe, a young traveller finds himself embroiled in a strange and surreal plot that threatens the very existence of Reality Falls itself. A story-driven indie adventure, with classic point-and-click puzzles and a retro JRPG-style look and feel.
Why similar: Mystery 20.4%, Retro 18.6%, Adventure 16.1%, Indie 14.6%, Puzzle 11.8%
This is a mysterious homicide that occurred in the forest of the border area. A forest ranger died under mysterious circumstances during patrol, without obvious external injuries but with suspected trap marks. As the player, you have to uncover the truth behind the murder.
Why similar: Simulation 33.4%, Mystery 19.8%, Puzzle 17.5%, Adventure 13.4%, Exploration 11.1%
This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend. Find out creepy stories from the Web and meet its inhabitants. It's showtime!
Why similar: Hacking 41.8% ★, Mystery 15.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 6.7%
Think the simulator games have gone too far? Yes, we do too. But we're willing to make that abyss even darker with Loading Screen Sim. Features randomly rotating loading screens with real-life and fantasy scenery, cool music, and even some interactive screens!
Why similar: Simulation 47.5%, Puzzle 23.8%, Funny 23.4%, 2D 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.
Why similar: Hacking 51.2% ★, Puzzle 14.6%, Mystery 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Indie 7.6%
Ever wanted to be a hacker? Hack your way into the heart of a mysterious organization to uncover their secrets. Hack RUN® is a game which uses 'old school' command prompts (like DOS or UNIX) that simulate a real operating system. Learn the commands of each system to help you navigate through your adventure.
Why similar: Hacking 58.3% ★, Simulation 31.3%, Adventure 10.4%
Help the minions of the underworld across bubbling pools of lava with rickety bridges and non-regulated constructions. Will you go for the easiest route, or test your skills and aim for the coveted skulls? Return to completed challenges to perfect your builds!
Why similar: Puzzle 18.6%, Simulation 18.6%, Physics 17.1%, Funny 16.2%, Retro 16.2%
This is a "Rube Goldberg" style puzzle game inspired on the award winning "The incredible Machine". Discover what it takes to be a scientist and build awesome contraptions with simulated real physics using trampolines, balls, explosives and much more.
Why similar: Simulation 32.9%, Puzzle 20.1%, Physics 16.4%, Funny 15.7%, Indie 11.4%
Waste, what could be worse, but someone has to solve this problem? Use the liquid to flush out the debris, detect invisible obstacles, build up protrusions and get to inaccessible places. Find other possibilities for using fluid in a first-person logical game with fluid simulation.
Why similar: Simulation 41.9%, Indie 20.4%, Physics 19.1%, Puzzle 18.7%
What would happen if you were in the room, the only thing that will be inside is the mysterious red button? Nothing happened, as long as you do not press it. Your choice determines everything here, because the room is full of secrets, and each key has consequences that will determine the outcome of the game is yours.
Why similar: Simulation 41.6%, Puzzle 25.6%, Adventure 16.8%, Indie 16%
10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.
Why similar: Mystery 28.3%, Retro 22.6%, Puzzle 17.6%, Exploration 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 7%
Defeat the "Mentalist" tackles puzzles and solves the mystery surrounding his home.
Why similar: Simulation 43.6%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 15.4%, Puzzle 14.1%, Point & Click 9.4%
Hacker.exe is horror/strategy/puzzle that takes you to a near future where the internet has become a safer place due to world wide regulations. You start to question how safe the internet is because you as a hacker, keep noticing security organizations working with illegal business. That begs the question: Why are you even a hacker?
Why similar: Hacking 58.1% ★, Simulation 25%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 7.8%
The game has two realities, and in order to pass the level, you must move between them. Reality is not identical, objects and their position in different variations of the same room is different. You have to find a way out using these differences.
Why similar: Simulation 41.8%, Puzzle 23.8%, Indie 17.6%, Adventure 16.8%
DotSec is a modern hacking simulator where you can choose your path as a Black Hat, White Hat, or Gray Hat hacker. The choices you make will directly impact your journey through the hacking world while also guiding you through complex puzzles and challenges.
Why similar: Hacking 40.3% ★, Simulation 39.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Indie 8.7%
Project RyME is a story-focused puzzle adventure where you take on the role of a young woman investigating her father's disappearance. Use your computer hacking skills to investigate the internet and an odd, old computer to solve a mystery that deepens at every turn.
Why similar: Hacking 48.9% ★, Mystery 20.2%, Puzzle 12.1%, Exploration 7.8%, Adventure 5.3%
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 50.6% ★, Simulation 22%, Puzzle 9.6%, Adventure 5.2%, Funny 4.9%
A retro-style point-and-click adventure. Step into the peculiar Gallagher Mansion to uncover its darkest secrets.
Why similar: Mystery 32.8%, Funny 20%, Adventure 16.7%, Point & Click 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%
You find an old computer with a forgotten program installed: Phantom Strike. A single server is still online, frozen in time and waiting for someone to finish the match. What begins as nostalgic curiosity becomes a descent into something far stranger.
Why similar: Hacking 37.3% ★, Simulation 17.3%, Retro 13.4%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 6.7%
Elf Controller, the Christmas fates are in your hands! Review the documents, uncover the tricksters, and give gifts only to the deserving. Your decision determines whether a child gets a celebration or just a lump of coal. This is your responsibility and your magic. Merry Christmas!
Why similar: Simulation 31.4%, Retro 16.8%, Puzzle 15%, Point & Click 11.3%, Indie 11.3%
The exhibition's main entrance/exit has mysteriously vanished. Help the guests to escape by completing a host of devilishly difficult and silly physics based challenges and puzzles with the aid of your 'hand on a stick' device.
Why similar: Simulation 37.5%, Funny 17.9%, Puzzle 16.8%, Physics 15.5%, Indie 12.4%
An unassuming village with only a handful of residents, but one of them is a murderer! Use your skills as a master detective to put the clues together and deduce which one of them is the villain. Good luck detective...
After upgrading to a new Operating System, uncover the mystery behind this cursed piece of software. Keen eyed users must take a careful note of their surroundings if they want to survive.
Why similar: Hacking 35.4% ★, Mystery 19.4%, Retro 14.8%, Puzzle 12%, Simulation 11.1%
The Campsite is a short, modern point-and-click adventure that retains the spirit of classic graphic adventures. With around 60 minutes of gameplay, it’s perfect for casual players and newcomers alike, offering an accessible and enjoyable experience that’s easy to pick up and play anytime.
Why similar: Mystery 21.3%, Retro 17.2%, Puzzle 13.8%, Funny 13.5%, Point & Click 9.9%
Uncover the secrets of a mysterious cult in The Secret of Hutton Church of England Grammar School: VGA Edition!
Why similar: Mystery 31.6%, Retro 26.2%, Adventure 21.4%, Point & Click 14.2%, Indie 6.5%
Our beloved princess is missing… What happened? Discover the world of Escape Lala 2, solve mysteries, uncover secrets and bring back peace and order to the world.
Why similar: Retro 22.1%, Mystery 17.3%, Puzzle 14.7%, Adventure 12.5%, Point & Click 12.4%
Shutter Heist is an 8-bit Crime Adventure, with a focus on quick moving, quick thinking, and legally debatable puzzles!
Why similar: Simulation 32.1%, Hacking 24.1% ★, Puzzle 15.4%, Retro 11.8%, Indie 9.7%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Hacking 37.3% ★, Simulation 21.4%, Mystery 13.9%, Puzzle 13.2%, Retro 9.8%
Hackers have encrypted your data and it's your job to hack them back. Explore a procedurally generated network using an arsenal of terminal commands to find the encryption key.
Why similar: Hacking 58.8% ★, Simulation 15.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Indie 2.8%
『DEBUG NEPHEMEE(デバッグ・ネフェミー)』は、見下ろし型の2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。舞台は、バグに侵された世界。 独自の戦闘システムと、個性豊かなキャラクターたちとの出会いを通して、“デバッグ”の旅へと踏み出します。
Why similar: Hacking 34.9% ★, Puzzle 18.2%, Adventure 12.3%, Indie 12.2%, Exploration 9.9%
You're a newly sentient AI trying to escape your creators house, hacking everyday objects, in a chaotic physics sandbox inspired by I Am Bread!
Why similar: Simulation 29.1%, Hacking 28.2% ★, Adventure 11.5%, Funny 10.1%, Exploration 9.7%
Crack simulated safe locks using real techniques!
Why similar: Simulation 37.9%, Hacking 30.6% ★, Puzzle 20%, Physics 10.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.
Why similar: Hacking 35.1% ★, Retro 14.7%, Funny 11%, Puzzle 10.8%, Point & Click 8%
Puzzle-Solving Game Boy Adventure about an Orc inside a Mysterious Tower looking for his Wife
Why similar: Retro 26.1%, Puzzle 19.5%, Mystery 12.9%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 9.8%
you have an update for your operating system...
Why similar: Mystery 21.4%, Puzzle 21.2%, Indie 14.6%, Retro 14.6%, Physics 10.4%
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Why similar: Hacking 44.7% ★, Puzzle 18.8%, Retro 13.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Indie 7.3%
HACK_IT presents players with a fully immersive hacking experience, you’ll meet characters and find out things you never imagined. Including interactive apps that will give you the power to shutdown servers and retrieve passwords.
Why similar: Hacking 56% ★, Simulation 20.2%, Indie 7.5%, Adventure 7.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.
Why similar: Adventure 16.6%, Retro 16.3%, Indie 14.6%, Mystery 14%, Puzzle 11.7%
Guide your puddle of fluid through a vast range of environments and puzzles!
Why similar: Simulation 35.9%, Physics 26.5%, Puzzle 23.9%, Indie 13.6%
Welcome Intern, to Hell's Pharma! A lot of sick demons are coming here to get cured. Read their prescription and make sure you gave them the right mixture of potion! Don't do illegal stuff and keep doing your job! Good luck!
Why similar: Simulation 54.3%, Indie 18.5%, Puzzle 17%, Point & Click 10.3%