60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Hacking, Simulation, Espionage, 2D.
Have you always wanted to break into IT but never had the chance? Well… now you do. Take on the role of a professional and prove that you can balance deadlines, personal life, and your own mental well-being.
How To Hack In?
A systems-driven, real-time hacking sandbox in a living, procedurally generated world. Profile people, infiltrate companies, exploit networks from your terminal, automate complex attacks, erase the evidence, trade stocks and crypto, and buy or sell intelligence on an underground marketplace.
Hacker vs IT
A game to show how really a fight between a Hacker and a IT worker works and how hackers operate. Old MS-DOS game.
A systems-driven, real-time hacking sandbox in a living, procedurally generated world. Profile people, infiltrate companies, exploit networks from your terminal, automate complex attacks, erase the evidence, trade stocks and crypto, and buy or sell intelligence on an underground marketplace.
Why similar: Espionage 25.4% ★, Hacking 22.3% ★, Programming 20.2% ★, Crime 14.4%, Investigation 6.8%
A game to show how really a fight between a Hacker and a IT worker works and how hackers operate. Old MS-DOS game.
Why similar: Espionage 31% ★, Hacking 28.7% ★, Programming 18.6% ★, Life Sim 5.8%, Investigation 5.7%
Desktop hacking and social engineering in a moral thriller. Write viruses, hide them in game builds, crack other people's PCs — to get to the former friend who stole your life and built a new success on its ruins.
Why similar: Espionage 38.4% ★, Hacking 29.7% ★, Programming 22.1% ★, Adventure 3.2%, Investigation 2.5%
Become a young programmer diving into the dangerous world of cybercrime. When the elite hacking collective Dark Shadows challenges you with a series of ruthless trials, you must push your genius to the limit. Will you prove your worth or become another digital casualty?
Why similar: Espionage 26.2% ★, Hacking 25.9% ★, Programming 24.2% ★, Crime 17.3%, Investigation 5.4%
A hacking themed turn-based strategy game. Write scripts to move your agent. Eliminate or make use of virus and anti-virus to take over your target's device. Then hop around the network until you find your target.
Why similar: Espionage 35.1% ★, Programming 29% ★, Hacking 26.1% ★, Investigation 6.4%, Top-Down 2.5%
A mysterious hacker has stolen the NSA's cyber arsenal and is threatening to sell it to the highest bidder. You have been pulled from your day job and assigned to hunt the hacker. Triage alerts, search through logs, piece together the clues, and find The Shadow Brokers before they leak everything.
Why similar: Espionage 53.9% ★, Hacking 25.3% ★, Investigation 13.1%, Choices Matter 3.9%, Multiple Endings 3.8%
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: Hacking 32.1% ★, Programming 29.8% ★, Crime 18.3%, Life Sim 14.9%, 2D 2.6%
A career-sim roguelite about surviving the software industry. Take the job, inherit someone else's legacy monolith, ship commits, fix the bugs you planted, then outrun the tech debt that compounds while you sleep. Rent's due, burnout's real, and your bank balance and your nerves are both stats.
Why similar: Programming 30.7% ★, Hacking 30.1% ★, Life Sim 19.3%, Multiple Endings 5.5%, Choices Matter 5.4%
A hacking sandbox with its own scripting language. Break into a network of thousands of machines, take what you find and sell it and write scripts to do the work for you. Every move leaves a trace, so stay unseen or clean up after yourself.
Why similar: Hacking 35.2% ★, Espionage 29.1% ★, Programming 27.7% ★, Crime 6.1%, 2D 1.9%
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 33% ★, Programming 25.6% ★, Espionage 22.8% ★, Conspiracy 8.2% ★, Adventure 6.4%
Master cybersecurity by doing inside a living virtual OS. Complete hands on modules, then enter a safe fictional Dark Net where virtual operators infiltrate rivals, defend their own systems, hunt traces and compete for reputation. More modules are coming.
Why similar: Hacking 29.7% ★, Espionage 29.6% ★, Programming 27.7% ★, Investigation 9.9%, 2D 3%
Oleander-X is a stealth action game about classified missions, buried evidence, and a cure that should never have existed. Infiltrate guarded facilities, gather proof, plant explosives, and escape before the truth turns against you.
Why similar: Espionage 58.5% ★, Adventure 13.7%, Action-Adventure 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%, 2D 5.4%
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Why similar: Programming 46.3% ★, Hacking 36.1% ★, Adventure 8.7%, Conspiracy 6.5% ★, Atmospheric 2.3%
A story-rich visual novel about romance, mystery, and conspiracy. Shape relationships, make difficult choices, and uncover the secrets hidden beneath the city of San Viero.
Why similar: Espionage 48.2% ★, Crime 13.6%, Adventure 11.2%, Conspiracy 9% ★, Investigation 7.4%
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
Why similar: Espionage 66.3% ★, Investigation 20%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Hacking 2.9% ★, Multiple Endings 0.5%
A story-rich hacking sim played inside a real Linux desktop. Recon networks, break web apps, crack crypto, and extract hidden data with tools that behave like the real thing, while an autonomous AI watches the network, learns, and hacks back. The commands are real. So are the consequences.
Why similar: Hacking 39.4% ★, Programming 33.7% ★, Crime 14%, Conspiracy 9.3% ★, 2D 3.5%
Investigate the sprawling pharmaceutical mega-facility, STRATA, where every choice matters. Uncover hidden secrets, forge alliances, solve complex puzzles, and fight your way through a cyberpunk conspiracy in a true immersive sim where no two playthroughs are ever the same.
Why similar: Espionage 46.2% ★, Hacking 29.7% ★, Investigation 12.3%, Choices Matter 5.1%, Multiple Endings 5%
Freelancer Life Simulator: Prologue - a free game that contains events before Freelancer Life Simulator. In this story, you play as the uncle of the protagonist. You will find out why uncle left the city.
Why similar: Hacking 34.7% ★, Programming 31.2% ★, Life Sim 20.9%, Adventure 8.2%, Atmospheric 2.6%
A top-down survival horror game where genetic experiments escape containment. Run, hide, solve mazes to prove you are human, collect keycards, uncover the truth behind a corporation favoring profits over ethical experimentation, and discover why O.M.E.N. is making mysterious use of his new powers.
Why similar: Espionage 56.1% ★, Adventure 12.3%, Top-Down 9.9%, Action-Adventure 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%
You're broke, in debt, and one month from the street. And to top it off, you pawned your father's watch. So get to work: the "thrilling" job of running a godforsaken pawnshop is all yours.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.2%, Crime 16.4%, Investigation 13.8%, Capitalism 11.5%, Top-Down 8.8%
A terminal-style hacking puzzle game where every command matters. Investigate logs, decode secrets, avoid traps, and uncover the rogue system watching from behind the screen.
Why similar: Hacking 37.9% ★, Programming 31.5% ★, Espionage 19.1% ★, Investigation 7.5%, Adventure 2.7%
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
Why similar: Hacking 45.7% ★, Programming 25.5% ★, Crime 21.3%, Adventure 4.9%, Atmospheric 2.5%
Conduct a high-stakes espionage operation at the height of the Cold War. Intercept and decipher classified intelligence to uncover a hidden threat. Break codes, cover your tracks, and escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Espionage 44.5% ★, Hacking 22.2% ★, Investigation 15.5%, Conspiracy 6.2% ★, 2D 4.1%
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 52.7% ★, Programming 36.2% ★, Crime 7.9%, Adventure 1.8%, 2D 1.4%
Take a team of hackers under your strict guidance and become known to the whole world. Expand your hideout and hack various companies around the world. Become the most famous group in the world!
Why similar: Hacking 33.8% ★, Programming 28.6% ★, Life Sim 21.8%, Economy 8.8%, Top-Down 7%
BOUND is a psychological thriller where you search through private conversations, hidden files, and recordings on devices that aren't your own. Manipulate others, uncover dark secrets, and shape the outcome through the choices you make.
Why similar: Espionage 33.8% ★, Hacking 21.5% ★, Investigation 14.9%, Crime 11.9%, Choices Matter 7.4%
You're a Secret Agent during a dangerous time, Evil-doers are plotting to destroy the world. Complete missions, manage your agents & use Intel to narrow down the plot & save the Earth. Play a real-life VR obstacle course using every inch of your room - you will run, roll, sneak & hack to victory!
Why similar: Espionage 42.6% ★, Hacking 22.1% ★, Conspiracy 10.9% ★, Investigation 9.2%, Adventure 6.4%
VSCS-II is a retro-styled narrative game about privacy and security. Using an upgraded '80s operating system, navigate an underground network to make connections, unearth conspiracies, and ultimately decide the fate of the dark web.
Why similar: Hacking 29.7% ★, Programming 21.4% ★, Crime 19.9%, Investigation 11.4%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Espionage 49.9% ★, Hacking 24.4% ★, Investigation 6.9%, Choices Matter 6.6%, Adventure 5.4%
CRACKME.EXE is a hard hacking puzzle game where you use real tools to mess with the game's files and programs. You'll have to leave the game window to work out what's stopping you, then find a way around it.
Why similar: Hacking 48.3% ★, Programming 32.3% ★, Investigation 16.2%, 2D 3.2%
Hacker’s Journey is a realistic hacking simulation game built around scenarios written by cybersecurity experts. No Hollywood hacking. Learn the tools, techniques, and tradecraft used in the wild.
Why similar: Hacking 37.4% ★, Programming 33.9% ★, Crime 28.7%
Experience the wild internet of 1999: buy darknet databases, validate stolen cards, manage risk, gamble dirty money, and upgrade your hardware. Earn enough to vanish forever. A Windows 98‑style scammer sim.
Why similar: Hacking 40.7% ★, Crime 25.8%, Capitalism 14.4%, Life Sim 13.9%, Atmospheric 2.9%
Suneil starts his new night job at a gas station on the outskirts of Highwayton, Colorado. The customers keep coming but few of them leave. Something in the dark keeps asking for them.
Why similar: Crime 32.4%, Life Sim 27%, Investigation 18.2%, Action-Adventure 6.4%, Choices Matter 5.4%
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
Why similar: Hacking 35% ★, Programming 33.9% ★, Investigation 9.7%, Adventure 6.2%, 2D 4.7%
The AI writes all the code. Confidently. Wrong. You are the last human reviewer. Interrogate the swarm, run the code, catch the lie. Fix it, or ship it anyway. Next comes a problem, a recall, a funeral, or the end of the world. Plays fully on a controller, and the code is real when you want it.
Why similar: Programming 32.2% ★, Hacking 28.8% ★, Capitalism 13.7%, Investigation 11.6%, Multiple Endings 5%
Build your digital empire from a cramped room to a high-tech penthouse. Code, hack, mine crypto, and manipulate the dark web in this deep 3D economic sandbox simulator. Stay in the shadows, manage your hardware, and don't get caught by the police!
Why similar: Hacking 40.8% ★, Crime 26.2%, Life Sim 16.4%, Economy 10.2%, Capitalism 6.5%
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to 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. The better your code, the better you hack.
Why similar: Hacking 40.5% ★, Programming 35.6% ★, Crime 14%, Conspiracy 7.4% ★, Atmospheric 2.4%
Hack ‘n’ Slash is a puzzle action game about hacking -- reprogram object properties, hijack global variables, hack creature behavior, and even rewrite the game’s code. The only way to win is not to play...by the rules!
Why similar: Hacking 49.8% ★, Programming 36.2% ★, Adventure 12.4%, 2D 1.6%
Netghost is a Crime Drama visual novel with a mystery-driven story full of intrigue, twists and turns. The story follows Ian Newfield, a cyber security engineer who transforms into a cold-blooded criminal in his struggle to protect the company he works for and aid his ailing sister.
Why similar: Hacking 30.4% ★, Programming 29.5% ★, Crime 19.7%, Conspiracy 10.3% ★, Investigation 7.7%
Backdoor is a hacking simulation set in the early days of the Internet. You enter the underground world as a freelance hacker. Build your reputation, upgrade your tools, and take jobs from small clients or large corporations.
Why similar: Hacking 46.6% ★, Crime 30.2%, Adventure 10.3%, Programming 8.4% ★, 2D 2.9%
In Web Host Simulator, you'll start your web hosting company in your small apartment, aiming to become the world's leading provider. But to do so, you must win clients, outperform competitors, and deal with cyber threats, disruptions, and challenges from an datacenter!
Why similar: Hacking 31.6% ★, Programming 30.8% ★, Life Sim 22.2%, Economy 10.1%, Choices Matter 5.3%
Big dreams, empty pockets. Play as Sneaky the mouse in this top-down stealth game, sneak into your wealthy relative's manor at night, stuff your pockets with valuables, load up the van, and conquer the music world with your friends. But only if you can pay the rent first!
Why similar: Hacking 43% ★, Crime 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Adventure 10.7%, Action-Adventure 6.7%
Embark on an insane journey with Comer Sintra through MMOs, hacking, the financial markets, love, and a philosophical understanding of how absolutely everything works.
Why similar: Hacking 30.6% ★, Philosophical 15.8%, Capitalism 14.9%, Crime 11.6%, Economy 9.8%
Venture into the dreams of a programmer, haunted by his past. Battle with traumas using choices and turn based combat, learn hacking using realistic technology and uncover the man's true purpose.
Why similar: Hacking 34.2% ★, Programming 32.9% ★, Philosophical 15.3%, Life Sim 10%, Adventure 7.5%
A prequel set in the SYS.POST-FUTURE universe: a cyberpunk interface simulation where your decisions permanently shape the main game. As a covert operations director, dispatch agents, manage cyber defenses, and write the official canon through community-driven choices.
Why similar: Espionage 41% ★, Investigation 19.9%, Hacking 13.4% ★, Choices Matter 8.6%, Adventure 7.6%
It's 2AM and someone's already hacked into the network. You've got a terminal, a clock that only moves when you act, and maybe twenty minutes before their next move. Find out how they got in. Save the day!
Why similar: Hacking 45% ★, Espionage 31.1% ★, Programming 16.3% ★, 2D 5%, Choices Matter 2.7%
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
Why similar: Hacking 77.7% ★, Programming 10.2% ★, Crime 6.4%, Choices Matter 1.8%, Adventure 1.6%
Start with empty pockets and a pickpocket's nerve. Build a criminal empire one racket at a time in this atmospheric pixel-art idle game. Train your skills, run your crew, manage the heat - and when the law closes in, burn it all down and rise again, stronger.
Why similar: Crime 31%, Life Sim 24.7%, Capitalism 24%, Economy 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 5%
Ever wonder what another life would be like? In Lifespan.exe there is no undo. Shape your destiny in a retro terminal with stylish ASCII art: Be a musician, athlete, surgeon, or mobster; pick your spouse and career. Marry, fall into debt, go to jail, or explore the world. Enjoy your chosen life!
Why similar: Hacking 33.6% ★, Programming 28.9% ★, Life Sim 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 7%, 2D 2.4%
One Man Guerrilla is a stealth action game where you play as Bento, a rebel agent fighting a brutal dictatorship. Infiltrate diverse Brazilian cities on deadly missions where being seen means practically death, and face powerful bosses that will push your skills to the limit.
Why similar: Espionage 62.7% ★, Conspiracy 9.7% ★, Top-Down 9.1%, Action-Adventure 7%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
Mad Valley is an economic and life simulation game set in vivid pixelized aesthetics of 1980s California.
Why similar: Programming 33.1% ★, Life Sim 24.6%, Capitalism 16.2%, Economy 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
Explore CyberQuest, where your decisions define you. Journey from a novice freelancer to a skilled hacker. Choose your path: white hat, black hat, or hacktivist, and embrace the cyber challenge!
Why similar: Hacking 39.4% ★, Programming 31.4% ★, Crime 19%, Investigation 6.6%, Multiple Endings 3.6%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 51.8% ★, Programming 44.2% ★, Adventure 4%
Set in a world of Magic, Hacking and Augmentations, rescue your newborn baby from the evil clutches of the Hospital Corporation. "They send you a enormous bill for her surgery". Will you pay or will you fight your way up the 4 floors of the hospital and fight to save your baby?
Why similar: Espionage 31.2% ★, Hacking 27.6% ★, Adventure 12.4%, Action-Adventure 11.9%, 2D 9.5%
Enter the world of hackers where Hiro and Misa must uncover the circumstances behind a mystery arson attack on a company that may be tied to the legendary hacker "Warlock". What will they uncover in their pursuit of the truth? A visual novel that brings the world of hackers to life!
Why similar: Programming 44.6% ★, Hacking 37.3% ★, Investigation 18.1%
An action hacking simulator set in a fully simulated world. Choose your path, craft your own tools, exploit vulnerabilities, and build your reputation. Every company, hacker, and law enforcement agency operates independently — nothing happens by chance. Every playthrough is unique.
Why similar: Hacking 34.6% ★, Programming 32.8% ★, Crime 18.9%, Investigation 10.5%, 2D 3.2%
A real-time tactical hacking puzzle where every move reshapes the challenge. Infiltrate megacorp servers, reroute connections, gather valuable data, and outsmart evolving defenses, all while racing against the clock and the ever-present threat of adaptive sentinels.
Why similar: Espionage 46.8% ★, Hacking 37% ★, Top-Down 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%, 2D 3.4%
A roguelite strategy game where you keep the books for the criminal underworld. Take contracts from cartels and sanctioned regimes, build money routes across dozens of jurisdictions, play the market of sanctioned coins. And try not to annoy Interpol.
Why similar: Espionage 42.1% ★, Hacking 25.3% ★, Crime 20.1%, Economy 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%
15 minutes and a terminal. Your sister's life in your hands. Navigate the Silicon Sneaky system, explore the digital underworld to secure $20,000, and make irreversible decisions. Your choices define her fate.
Why similar: Hacking 38.7% ★, Crime 20.8%, Investigation 15%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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 53.8% ★, Hacking 39.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
