60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Hacking, Simulation, Indie, Espionage.
A game to show how really a fight between a Hacker and a IT worker works and how hackers operate. Old MS-DOS game.
Signal Drift
Break into fictional networks with real-feeling shell commands. Scan hosts, crack credentials, trace logs, steal evidence, and survive the fallout in a CRT-noir thriller where Signal Ghost's local AI characters remember what you do - and what you say.
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A real-time hacking sandbox simulator with procedurally generated content. Multiple tools and techniques to use, multiple computers to hack, multiple missions to solve, and multiple vulnerabilities to exploit!
Break into fictional networks with real-feeling shell commands. Scan hosts, crack credentials, trace logs, steal evidence, and survive the fallout in a CRT-noir thriller where Signal Ghost's local AI characters remember what you do - and what you say.
Why similar: Espionage 34.6% ★, Hacking 30.1% ★, Detective 12.2%, Choices Matter 6.5%, Multiple Endings 4.1%
A real-time hacking sandbox simulator with procedurally generated content. Multiple tools and techniques to use, multiple computers to hack, multiple missions to solve, and multiple vulnerabilities to exploit!
Why similar: Espionage 29.1% ★, Hacking 28% ★, Programming 17.8% ★, Detective 10.4%, Choices Matter 4.9%
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 44.3% ★, Hacking 23.7% ★, Detective 12.6%, Choices Matter 7.1%, Multiple Endings 3.7%
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 31.1% ★, Hacking 21.7% ★, Detective 19.1%, Investigation 8.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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: Hacking 37.3% ★, Programming 23.8% ★, Detective 16.2%, Investigation 6.7%, Choices Matter 5.9%
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: Hacking 34.5% ★, Espionage 31.8% ★, Programming 22.6% ★, Investigation 3.9%, Simulation 3.4%
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 40.2% ★, Programming 23.5% ★, Espionage 18.5% ★, Text-Based 5.2%, Investigation 4.4%
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 65.8% ★, Investigation 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Simulation 4.7%, Hacking 3.2% ★
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 43.4% ★, Hacking 23.7% ★, Detective 18.5%, Investigation 9.1%, Puzzle 3.9%
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 46.6% ★, Hacking 32.9% ★, Investigation 7.5%, Multiple Endings 6.6%, Choices Matter 6.2%
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 58.4% ★, Programming 28.1% ★, Detective 5.7%, Simulation 4.1%, Text-Based 2.1%
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.
Why similar: Espionage 32.6% ★, Hacking 27.9% ★, Programming 18.3% ★, Life Sim 5.7%, Investigation 5.6%
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 39.6% ★, Espionage 24.9% ★, Programming 21.5% ★, Simulation 5.1%, Text-Based 4.1%
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 84% ★, Programming 7.7% ★, Detective 4.7%, Choices Matter 2.2%, Simulation 1.2%
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 45.8% ★, Hacking 39.8% ★, Stealth 8.7%, Puzzle 3.7%, Strategy 1.6%
Reverse-engineer a private 1990s BBS. Read disassembly, patch broken checks, optimize a nine-core rack, and write assembly firmware that locks onto live scope traces. With 200+ puzzles, full controller support and offline play, you can refine your assembly skills on all your devices!
Why similar: Hacking 37.4% ★, Programming 32.6% ★, Detective 12.6%, Investigation 5.6%, Puzzle 3.5%
Your shift as janitor involves mopping spills and serving coffee to "hard working" scientists. Finish your chores, keep the entities from creating chaos and survive the night using every tool and gadget at your disposal.
Why similar: Espionage 54.8% ★, Detective 13%, Roguelike 8.6%, Hidden Object 8.1%, Simulation 6.7%
Reopen your late father's phone repair shop to survive. But every device holds someone's secrets — and the deeper you dig, the closer you get to the sister who vanished. Repair. Extract. Investigate. The truth has a price, and so does staying clean.
Why similar: Espionage 59% ★, Detective 16.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8%, Investigation 5.6%
Experience hacking and uncover hidden secrets. Type commands to decode messages, navigate systems, and gain remote access to devices.
Why similar: Hacking 39.7% ★, Programming 26.3% ★, Detective 16.8%, Investigation 8.4%, Simulation 3.4%
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 54.9% ★, Programming 18.2% ★, Perma Death 9.5%, Roguelike 4.8%, Text-Based 4.2%
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: Hacking 52% ★, Programming 34.1% ★, Text-Based 5.3%, Simulation 4%, Puzzle 3.4%
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 41.7% ★, Programming 28.4% ★, Detective 14.7%, Investigation 6.3%, Choices Matter 4.3%
hack teh world A cool hacking game where you play as a computer virus. You can play as a Ransomware, Trojan, Spyware, Miner, or just play the Tutorial. Choose from over 195 countries and spread your virus to other countries.
Why similar: Hacking 53.9% ★, Programming 30% ★, RTS 9.4%, Simulation 6.6%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 59.1% ★, Programming 35.4% ★, Simulation 5.1%, Indie 0.4%
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 56.8% ★, Programming 22.2% ★, Detective 15.3%, Simulation 5.1%, Indie 0.5%
Work to expose the numerous criminal degenerates that plague your quiet town. Use citizen-issued reports, police records, social media accounts, text conversations, and more to determine who’s an actual threat and who’s harmless, all while avoiding the killers trying to infiltrate your home.
Why similar: Hacking 50.6% ★, Detective 30.1%, Perma Death 11%, Simulation 7.4%, Indie 0.8%
quietd is a no-input game you simply watch. A terminal hacks on its own across all 50 stages while you idle by. No commands, no clicks, no win, no score, no game over. Just chill, ambient cyberpunk: silent monospace text drifting in a corner of your desktop. Glance over and let it run.
Why similar: Espionage 56% ★, Hacking 27.7% ★, Simulation 7.5%, Text-Based 6.2%, Linear 2%
Clandestine is a 2-player or singleplayer stealth/hacking game set in 1996. Asymmetrical co-op allows one player to take the role of the spy while a friend provides overwatch and assistance as the hacker, and unravel a post-Cold War espionage conspiracy.
Why similar: Hacking 57.2% ★, Stealth 18.9%, Espionage 17.8% ★, Choices Matter 5.2%, Indie 0.9%
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 50.3% ★, Programming 30.2% ★, Simulation 6.5%, Text-Based 5.1%, Puzzle 4%
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.
Why similar: Hacking 48.7% ★, Programming 37.1% ★, Simulation 8%, Puzzle 4.3%, Indie 1.8%
Steal a face. Study a life. Survive the conversation.
Why similar: Espionage 46.7% ★, Detective 19.7%, Investigation 9.9%, Stealth 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%
UmbraNet is a psychological horror game where curiosity leads you into a hidden network that watches, manipulates, and slowly traps you as you explore its darkest layers.
Why similar: Hacking 59.9% ★, Perma Death 20.7%, Programming 13.5% ★, Puzzle 3.3%, Strategy 2%
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 69.2% ★, Programming 20% ★, Simulation 5.8%, Puzzle 3.6%, Indie 1.5%
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: Hacking 48% ★, Programming 40.9% ★, Simulation 6.1%, Puzzle 4.4%, Indie 0.5%
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: Hacking 46.4% ★, Programming 44.9% ★, Puzzle 4.9%, Simulation 3.1%, Indie 0.8%
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 61.6% ★, Programming 31.4% ★, Puzzle 5.6%, Indie 1.5%
You are a whale communication scientist. Join a secret NSA team deciphering a directed alien transmission. Use visual programming to process the signal, translate the language, and interpret the message. All the science is REAL, even the linguistics behind the alien language. No PhD required.
Why similar: Espionage 29.3% ★, Programming 23.9% ★, Hacking 20.3% ★, Detective 14%, Investigation 6.8%
Loyalty carries a price and no one knows this more than agent Michael Thorton. A talented young agent cast out by his government, Thorton is the only one with the information needed to stop an impending international catastrophe.
Why similar: Espionage 59.7% ★, Stealth 16.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
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 37.2% ★, Programming 18.8% ★, Detective 14.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, Investigation 7.9%
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 46.9% ★, Programming 30.5% ★, Simulation 4.8%, Life Sim 4.5%, Text-Based 4%
The Office Killer is a 1-3 player online co-op survival horror game. As a spy, your main goal is to complete the file transfer process containing the office's dark secrets while monitoring live surveillance camera footage. Can you survive the entire night or will you get caught by the killer?
Why similar: Hacking 44.2% ★, Perma Death 13.8%, Hidden Object 10.8%, Roguelike 8.3%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
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 46.8% ★, Programming 26.2% ★, Detective 10.6%, Multiple Endings 5.2%, Investigation 4.3%
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 45.3% ★, Detective 15.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Investigation 9.6%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Hacking 41.6% ★, Programming 41.2% ★, Simulation 6.8%, Text-Based 5.2%, Puzzle 5.2%
You started a neighborhood security program, which gradually expanded in size. Over time, it evolved to monitor not only homes but also warehouses, gas stations and various other locations. However, as your program grew, it began attracting the attention of dubious individuals.
Why similar: Hacking 57.2% ★, Perma Death 16.2%, Investigation 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Puzzle 5.1%
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 49.6% ★, Hacking 28.2% ★, Stealth 6.6%, Investigation 6.4%, Choices Matter 5.4%
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: Hacking 47.8% ★, Programming 36.4% ★, Text-Based 7.8%, Puzzle 3.7%, Simulation 3.6%
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: Hacking 45.8% ★, Programming 43.6% ★, Puzzle 5.4%, Simulation 5.2%
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
Why similar: Programming 43.6% ★, Hacking 39.3% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Puzzle 5.5%, Indie 2%
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: Hacking 50.3% ★, Programming 33.6% ★, Choices Matter 8%, Simulation 5%, Strategy 2.6%
DA-VI-NC1 is a Turing-machine-based coding puzzle game. You must complete the puzzles, pass the Turing test, and discover the philosophical world of DA-VI-NC1 with the Mona Lisa.
Why similar: Programming 45.1% ★, Hacking 43.4% ★, Simulation 5.7%, Puzzle 5.2%, Indie 0.7%
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 64% ★, Detective 16.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Puzzle 6.9%, Investigation 2.7%
Step into the role of a digital detective. Solve cases in a simulated OS by collecting evidence, linking clues, and making impactful decisions.
Why similar: Hacking 42.2% ★, Detective 28.9%, Simulation 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Puzzle 7.4%
The program was created on the basis of an engineering study program. No prior knowledge of any IT issues is required - we start with simple tasks and step by step learn the basics of computer programming.
Why similar: Hacking 53.8% ★, Programming 40.2% ★, Puzzle 4.9%, Indie 1%
The scarlet super thief Carmen Sandiego is back! Adorn Carmen’s signature red hat and play as the vigilante herself to navigate a world of espionage, utilizing high-tech gadgets, and ultimately capturing VILE.
Why similar: Detective 31%, Hacking 27.5% ★, Investigation 17.6%, Stealth 10.9%, Puzzle 5.3%
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 46.2% ★, Hacking 42% ★, Text-Based 6.6%, Simulation 2.4%, Puzzle 1.9%
NITE Team 4 is a military hacking simulation game that explores the world of cyberwarfare and features realistic mission scenarios.
Why similar: Hacking 85.1% ★, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 3.4%, Puzzle 3.2%, Indie 1.3%
Hack_me is a hacker simulator game. The main objective in game – is to hack big companies's servers to show people that there is nothing in this world that protected on 100%. You’ll need to use your cmd, bruteforce, SQL-injectors and other programs to hack servers.
Why similar: Hacking 56.7% ★, Programming 30.4% ★, Simulation 6.9%, Linear 3.8%, Indie 1.1%
You are a passport control officer at a busy international airport. Inspect documents, catch wanted criminals, and choose whether to resist or accept bribery. Every stamp shapes your rank and your fate.
Why similar: Espionage 70.6% ★, Simulation 10%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Puzzle 5.8%, Strategy 5.3%
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 80.3% ★, Simulation 12.8%, Puzzle 6%, Indie 0.9%
