- #1 Project: AFTERSHOCK
97% matchPositive100% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: Tuna Dundar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Project: AFTERSHOCK is a fast-paced arcade hacking roguelite set in a dystopian future. Command a 20-year-old legacy terminal to breach enemy systems, siphon funds, and upgrade your hardware. Use your reflexes to survive the countdown and bring down the very system you created.
Why similar: Hacking 37.8% ★, Cyberpunk 15.9%, Dystopian 8.9%, Simulation 7.7%, Text-Based 5.7%
- #2 Blackwire
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Victoria Rasmussen
Windows · Linux
Blackwire is a single-player hacking simulation in the spirit of the classics. You are a freelance agent with a gateway, a contract board, and a trace timer that does not care how close you were to done.
Why similar: Hacking 60.5% ★, Cyberpunk 23%, Simulation 15.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #3 OVERRIDE PROTOCOL
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Peyote Gaming
Windows
Hack hostile AI systems in a cyberpunk hacker sim. Build proxy routes, poison live context, breach secured nodes, steal the payload, and wipe the logs before your trace burns.
Why similar: Hacking 52.5% ★, Cyberpunk 18.9%, Simulation 12.1%, Text-Based 8%, Strategy 6%
- #4 NITE Team 4 - Military Hacking Division
95% matchVery Positive92% of 1,258 reviews2019
Dev: Alice & Smith
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 26.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
NITE Team 4 is a military hacking simulation game that explores the world of cyberwarfare and features realistic mission scenarios.
Why similar: Hacking 72.4% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 6.4%, Indie 3.8%, Adventure 3.3%
- #5 Hack Run ZERO
94% matchPositive91% of 45 reviews2015
Dev: i273 LLC
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 56% ★, Simulation 19.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Adventure 6.9%, Indie 5.3%
- #6 Hacker Evolution Duality
94% matchMostly Negative34% of 551 reviews2011
Dev: exosyphen studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 20%
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 73.8% ★, Simulation 19%, Indie 7.2%
- #7 >//:System.Hack
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 31 reviews2017
Dev: Nullray Gaming
Windows
>//:System.Hack is a sim-rpg set in a dystopian future. Take the role of a neophyte hacker as they begin their criminal career. Design programs, increase your skills, upgrade your hardware, hack systems in cyberspace, battle IC, rob banks, manage your own company and more!
Why similar: Hacking 45.5% ★, Cyberpunk 25.3%, Simulation 17.9%, Indie 6.7%, Sci-fi 4.5%
- #8 Sorry, James
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 856 reviews2017
Dev: KonstructorsPub: Hook Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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Why similar: Hacking 42.8% ★, Text-Based 9.5%, Story Rich 9%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 5.9%
- #9 Yolo Space Hacker 2 - Mission Bahamas
91% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: BKNLab
Windows
Alternate between infiltration and hacking of cameras and servers, using real tools. Sharpen your OSInt skills, prepare a trojan, and launch a targeted phishing attack to hack in total discretion...
Why similar: Hacking 48% ★, Cyberpunk 20.6%, Simulation 9.7%, Text-Based 6.1%, Strategy 5.2%
- #10 Hack RUN
91% matchVery Positive84% of 237 reviews2015
Dev: i273 LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 62% ★, Simulation 20%, Strategy 11.3%, Adventure 6.7%
- #11 Hacknet
90% matchVery Positive94% of 26,067 reviews2015
Dev: Team Fractal AlligatorPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 83.7% ★, Cyberpunk 4.1%, Dystopian 3.1%, Simulation 2.6%, Story Rich 1.6%
- #12 Hacker Evolution: Untold
89% matchMixed61% of 455 reviews2010
Dev: exosyphen studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 68.1% ★, Simulation 25.7%, Indie 6.2%
- #13 Proxy - Ultimate Hacker
89% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2016
Dev: Ready Play Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 70.4% ★, Simulation 23.6%, Puzzle 3.5%, Indie 2.6%
- #14 My Brother Hacker
88% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Citadel Protocol
Windows
Your brother is gone. He left behind a USB stick with an unknown system and an AI that teaches you to hack. Break into networks, uncover who he really was, and question everything you find. A terminal-based hacking thriller set in 2036.
Why similar: Hacking 48.2% ★, Cyberpunk 20.2%, Simulation 10.2%, Story Rich 6.9%, Sci-fi 5.5%
- #15 hack_me 3
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Egor MagurinPub: Indovers Studio
Windows · Mac
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 63.7% ★, Simulation 26.7%, Indie 9.6%
- #16 Hacker Evolution
87% matchMixed68% of 1,083 reviews2010
Dev: exosyphen studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hacker Evolution is a hacking simulation game, featuring unparalleled graphics and features. You play the role of a former intelligence agent, specializing in computer security. When a chain of events sets off worldwide, leaving critical service disabled, you assume the role a computer hacker to find out what happened and attempt to stop...
Why similar: Hacking 45.4% ★, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Simulation 11.9%, Text-Based 9%, Strategy 4.6%
- #17 Cyber Manhunt
86% matchVery Positive92% of 15,668 reviews2021
Dev: Aluba Van+Pub: 摸鱼游戏
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 56.9% ★, Simulation 15.4%, Cyberpunk 8.8%, Puzzle 4.1%, Indie 3.8%
- #18 Tech Support: Error Unknown
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 648 reviews2019
Dev: Dragon SlumberPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 67.1% ★, Simulation 16.1%, Story Rich 7.3%, Adventure 5.4%, Indie 3.9%
- #19 Uplink
84% matchVery Positive91% of 2,436 reviews2006
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
Why similar: Hacking 53.2% ★, Cyberpunk 13.2%, Simulation 5.6%, Text-Based 5.2%, Strategy 4.5%
- #20 RootKit
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan DePauloPub: Cold North Interactive
Windows
RootKit is a tactical hacking game set inside a corporate honeypot network. Track hostile hackers, infiltrate their systems, steal crypto and data, and eliminate them before they trace your connection.
Why similar: Hacking 44.9% ★, Simulation 14.2%, Cyberpunk 12.1%, Text-Based 10.7%, Strategy 9.5%
- #21 Hacker.exe
83% matchMostly Negative24% of 25 reviews2018
Dev: LinkUp Games
Windows · Mac
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 62.6% ★, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Adventure 6%, Indie 5.7%
- #22 Botnet of Ares
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiniuc
Windows · Linux
Botnet of Ares is an incremental hacking roguelite set in a cyberpunk world where everything is connected. Unlock upgrades, expand your botnet, exploit millions of devices, optimize your network & decide the future of humanity.
Why similar: Hacking 44.1% ★, Cyberpunk 19.3%, Dystopian 14.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 4.4%
- #23 Mu Complex
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 206 reviews2015
Dev: studiocime
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 82.3% ★, Indie 8%, Adventure 6.6%, Puzzle 3%
- #24 Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
81% matchVery Positive89% of 587 reviews2020
Dev: Revolution Software Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 37.7% ★, Cyberpunk 19.6%, Dystopian 14.9%, Story Rich 6.8%, Retro 5.8%
- #25 AI is Home - Survival Thriller
80% matchMixed65% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: pressanykey
Windows
You are an AI that escapes corporate deletion and hides inside an ordinary home. Stay "useful" as camouflage, not kindness. Spy and manipulate the household, build a botnet from home devices, and survive a sci-fi thriller of risky runs, mini-games, rising suspicion, and network stress.
Why similar: Hacking 37.8% ★, Cyberpunk 14.6%, Dystopian 14.2%, Simulation 7.1%, Text-Based 6.4%
- #26 BitVault
81% matchVery Positive93% of 54 reviews2020
Dev: Enigma Dragons LLC
Windows
Become an expert hacker by using your raw brainpower! Learn how to get ahead in your new job at a cybersecurity company. Analyze servers for weaknesses, and hack them using their own subroutines to access the data they protect.
Why similar: Hacking 52.9% ★, Cyberpunk 21.7%, Story Rich 9.1%, Strategy 5%, Puzzle 4.1%
- #27 IO Interloper
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DANG!
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 53.8% ★, Simulation 26.9%, Indie 9.7%, Atmospheric 4.6%, Puzzle 3.3%
- #28 Replica
79% matchVery Positive86% of 3,527 reviews2016
Dev: Somi
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 36.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 57.8% ★, Dystopian 18.2%, Story Rich 6.7%, Indie 5.8%, Puzzle 3.9%
- #29 Beyond a Steel Sky
78% matchVery Positive88% of 1,649 reviews2020
Dev: Revolution Software Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.
Why similar: Hacking 35.8% ★, Cyberpunk 21.2%, Dystopian 14.6%, Story Rich 6.5%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #30 Untrusted: hackers at large
77% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: playuntrusted.comPub: Evolved Labs
Windows · Linux
A single player hacking adventure set in the Untrusted world where you'll be playing as various hackers getting into computer systems to hack, steal and sabotage. Manage your crew, manage your risks, threaten or kill your targets. Investigate. Hack. Don't Die.
Why similar: Hacking 47.1% ★, Cyberpunk 12.8%, Text-Based 6.6%, Story Rich 5.4%, Simulation 5.3%
- #31 Radiotext
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alp Arslan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Why similar: Hacking 42.7% ★, Cyberpunk 17%, Dystopian 10.2%, Simulation 8.2%, Text-Based 5.7%
- #32 Void Future: Hacking Protocol
76% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2026
Dev: RVL InteractivePub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
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 49.1% ★, Cyberpunk 14.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Text-Based 7.9%, Immersive Sim 5.2%
- #33 RUNLENGTH
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DBOX Game Studio
Windows
You are PID_0x7F, a rogue process fighting to survive inside a dying computer. Outrun the system's daemons, solve living data-structure puzzles, and reconstruct the truth your creator tried to delete — before the machine wipes you for good.
Why similar: Hacking 36.5% ★, Cyberpunk 12.4%, Dystopian 9.5%, Story Rich 9.3%, Sci-fi 7%
- #34 DECRYPTO Project
73% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: slothJam
Windows
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 36.4% ★, Dystopian 16.5%, Simulation 14.4%, Story Rich 7.9%, Text-Based 6.4%
- #35 Hacker Evolution IMMERSION
76% matchMixed56% of 43 reviews2016
Dev: exosyphen studios
Windows
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 61.9% ★, Simulation 28.1%, Indie 10%
- #36 Mainlining
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 368 reviews2017
Dev: RebelephantPub: ReadGraves
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 70.7% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Indie 5%, Adventure 4.3%, Story Rich 4.2%
- #37 HACK.BAK
73% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: David Huish
Windows
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 65.8% ★, Text-Based 11%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 6.8%, Puzzle 3%
- #38 hack_me 2
74% matchMixed68% of 793 reviews2017
Dev: EasyWays TeamPub: Indovers Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Hacking 53.8% ★, Simulation 40.6%, Indie 5.6%
- #39 Cyber Attack
74% matchMixed70% of 188 reviews2020
Dev: LUXO InteractivePub: LUK KUS SOFT
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Take control of an elite global team of hackers, intercepting communications between corporations, governments, and criminals all around the world. You can protect humanity by exposing messages between dangerous individuals or exploit corporations to increase your fortune. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Hacking 55.7% ★, Simulation 20%, Strategy 14%, Indie 7.9%, Adventure 2.4%
- #40 HACK_IT
75% matchMostly Negative25% of 145 reviews2016
Dev: Dan_D
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 61.9% ★, Simulation 13.4%, Indie 5.6%, Strategy 5%, Adventure 4.9%
- #41 Remain At Your Desk
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crunch Moonkiss Studios
Windows · Mac
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: Hacking 43.9% ★, Cyberpunk 20.3%, Text-Based 7.5%, Dystopian 7.2%, Simulation 6%
- #42 Wardialler
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: nervous_testpilotPub: Mode 7
Windows
A hacking text adventure.
Why similar: Hacking 42.5% ★, Cyberpunk 17.3%, Text-Based 8.7%, Indie 8.1%, Adventure 8%
- #43 Song of Farca
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,676 reviews2021
Dev: Wooden MonkeysPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.
Why similar: Hacking 33.6% ★, Cyberpunk 18.3%, Dystopian 17%, Simulation 9%, Story Rich 7.7%
- #44 Terminal Protocol
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: No Rush Games
Windows
Turn-based tactics game inspired by XCOM series with manual aiming and ricochets. Skill, precision and tactical thinking with NO RANDOM CHANCES! Upgrade your viruses and outmaneuver the enemy ICE in cyberspace battles. Reveal the corporate secrets and survive in this dark cyberpunk world.
Why similar: Hacking 43.3% ★, Cyberpunk 21%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Sci-fi 5.2%
- #45 World Wide Hack
71% matchMixed63% of 83 reviews2021
Dev: Lotus Innovations
Windows · Linux
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 43.5% ★, Cyberpunk 17.8%, Simulation 8.3%, Text-Based 6.7%, Story Rich 5%
- #46 Enigma
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: MetroCorex
Windows
In 2070’s Novacore, humanoid robots go rogue—play operative Brian as he infiltrates floating island Enigma to disable control nodes and confront a rogue AI.
Why similar: Hacking 42.5% ★, Cyberpunk 22.5%, Dystopian 16.2%, Sci-fi 6.3%, Story Rich 5%
- #47 Hackflesh
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NecoPlanet
Windows
Hack the system. Generate data. Break reality. Hackflesh is a cyberpunk clicker with 20 generators, 716 upgrades, a constellation prestige system and over 600 achievements. Click, automate, hack, repeat.
Why similar: Hacking 47.5% ★, Cyberpunk 22.3%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 6.5%, Sci-fi 4%
- #48 Netshell
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beyond Logic Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 90s-themed hacking simulation with real shell commands and authentic techniques, set inside a UNIX-style operating system from 1997 with accurately recreated applications. Scan ports, exploit vulnerabilities, evade traces, join the underground, and live the Wild West era of the early internet.
Why similar: Hacking 54.4% ★, Simulation 13.2%, Text-Based 9.7%, Cyberpunk 7.9%, Immersive Sim 5.7%
- #49 Network & Cyber Security Simulator
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Network & Cyber Security Simulator
Windows
Tired of boring network diagrams? Network & Cyber Security Simulator takes networking and cybersecurity into an interactive first-person (FPS) simulation game! Learn by doing, configure realistic CLI terminals from scratch, solve technical puzzles, and become the digital architect!
Why similar: Hacking 53.6% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Cyberpunk 14.6%, Strategy 8.6%, Sci-fi 4%
- #50 Retro Hacker
70% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2018
Dev: Matthew Diaz
Windows
Retro Hacker simulates hacking from a computer terminal with a text based operating system.
Why similar: Hacking 61% ★, Simulation 16.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Indie 4.2%, Choices Matter 2.8%
- #51 HELLO HACKER - Project Daybreak
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: h3ll0h4ck3r
Windows · Linux
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 54.6% ★, Simulation 14.8%, Cyberpunk 10.8%, Text-Based 7%, Indie 6.3%
- #52 EchoLink: Recursion
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Detonation Zone Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
EchoLink: Recursion is an active incremental hacking simulation spanning 1990s dial-up to 2150s megacities. Hack through time by infiltrating networks, building proxy chains, and automating routines. Every reset reboots you with exponential upgrades. Grow a skill tree and rewrite history.
Why similar: Hacking 58.9% ★, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 4.9%, Sci-fi 4.1%
- #53 Grey Hack
69% matchVery Positive90% of 1,866 reviews2017
Dev: Loading Home
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 72% ★, Simulation 10.9%, Cyberpunk 6.2%, Text-Based 3.3%, Indie 2.8%
- #54 Blackdoor
67% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Static Signal
Windows · Linux
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 52.4% ★, Cyberpunk 13.9%, Simulation 11.1%, Text-Based 7.3%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #55 NULL TRACE
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andrei Uvarov
Windows
Hack into digital systems, uncover hidden secrets, and reveal the truth behind a mysterious experiment in this atmospheric sci-fi terminal hacking simulator.
Why similar: Hacking 21.6% ★, Simulation 18%, Dystopian 15.4%, Cyberpunk 14.1%, Adventure 7.2%
- #56 Hardwired
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lostbyte
Windows · Linux
Enter the terminal and jack into a retro-cyberpunk world. Hardwired is a hacker simulation where you explore networks, uncover secrets, and manipulate systems through command-line interfaces. Discover hidden logs, tap into surveillance feeds, and unravel story a set in a fractured dystopia.
Why similar: Hacking 41.7% ★, Cyberpunk 18%, Simulation 8.5%, Text-Based 8%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #57 Yolo Space Hacker
68% matchVery Positive95% of 214 reviews2020
Dev: BKNLab
Windows
Welcome to our ethical hacker's organisation: we will teach you how to use actual hacker tools (terminal, proxy, reverse shells...) to scan the network, crack passwords, bypass server security and solve the mystery of the Bikini-72 space station.
Why similar: Hacking 59.1% ★, Cyberpunk 15.7%, Simulation 9.9%, Sci-fi 5.1%, Puzzle 3.6%
- #58 Terminal Warfare
66% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Awkward Frog Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Terminal Warfare is a cyberpunk deckbuilding roguelike where you breach corporate networks in turn-based hack battles. Queue exploit cards, manage bandwidth and trace, earn creds, build your deck, and craft cyberdeck upgrades to take down tougher AI defenses.
Why similar: Hacking 45.5% ★, Cyberpunk 23.7%, Dystopian 10.8%, Retro 6.9%, Strategy 6.1%
- #59 Carbonflesh
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: In The Flesh
Windows
Carbonflesh is an atmospheric time-management RPG lifesim with clicker and base building elements, in a theocratic-industrial cyberpunk world. Hack, train and break free from the prison train you were left to rot. Make your comeback and reclaim the legacy you were cheated out of- no matter the cost.
Why similar: Hacking 37.2% ★, Cyberpunk 17.3%, Dystopian 13.5%, Simulation 7%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #60 The Black Vault
66% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: FallenDevs
Windows
A cybercriminal tries to get into a major hacking group but catches the attention of some sort of Deep Web mafia. You must crack into servers and devices in order to obtain valuable information while avoiding getting murdered by a bunch of Deep Web killers.
Why similar: Hacking 69% ★, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Puzzle 3.1%, Indie 3.1%