
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.
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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.

Hacknet
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.

Hacker Simulator
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.
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 75.5% ★, Programming 9.6% ★, Crime 6.2%, Education 4.9%, Simulation 2%
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 45.2% ★, Programming 24.4% ★, Crime 21.1%, Simulation 7.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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 44.1% ★, Programming 29.3% ★, Crime 6.7%, Education 6%, Simulation 5.9%
Step into the shoes of a skilled Anonymous hacker and embark on a mission to unveil the truth hidden behind a sinister organization's plans to monitor civilian data and enforce mass surveillance.
Why similar: Hacking 43.6% ★, Crime 22.3%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Programming 7% ★
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 43.3% ★, Education 18.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Simulation 10%
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
Why similar: Hacking 55.6% ★, Crime 32.9%, Simulation 9%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 49.8% ★, Programming 22.9% ★, Immersive Sim 9.4%, Text-Based 7.9%, Simulation 4.7%
The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.
Why similar: Hacking 33.7% ★, Programming 24.5% ★, Crime 19%, Education 17.5%, Simulation 4.2%
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top by discovering a simplified and enjoyable version of real-life hacking methods. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
Why similar: Hacking 39.8% ★, Crime 23.1%, Programming 20.5% ★, Simulation 13.9%, Indie 1.7%
Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!
Why similar: Programming 32.4% ★, Hacking 23.1% ★, Education 21.8%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Simulation 6.3%
Step into the shoes of a skilled Anonymous hacker and embark on a mission to unveil the truth hidden behind a sinister organization's plans to monitor civilian data and enforce mass surveillance.
Why similar: Hacking 43.6% ★, Crime 26.5%, Immersive Sim 17.6%, Simulation 11.1%, Indie 0.8%
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 47.8% ★, Programming 35.4% ★, Simulation 10.8%, Story Rich 3.1%, Indie 1.8%
NITE Team 4 is a military hacking simulation game that explores the world of cyberwarfare and features realistic mission scenarios.
Why similar: Hacking 84.8% ★, Simulation 12.8%, Indie 2.5%
Immerse yourself in the strange world of CipherCraft: CGI, where you'll perform repairs, network infiltration, programming, server management, active server administration, and meticulous assembly and cleaning of computer components. Win against an Anonymous hacker who keeps sabotaging the company.
Why similar: Hacking 32% ★, Programming 27.4% ★, Education 17.5%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Simulation 5.9%
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 53.6% ★, Crime 17.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Story Rich 2.6%
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 40.6% ★, Programming 36.8% ★, Text-Based 8.8%, Education 6.3%, Simulation 5.8%
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 36% ★, Programming 33.8% ★, Education 19.1%, Simulation 5.9%, Crime 4.3%
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 63.7% ★, Education 22.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Text-Based 3.4%, Indie 0.3%
Crack simulated safe locks using real techniques!
Why similar: Education 44.4%, Hacking 32.9% ★, Simulation 21.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
⚡️Fix electronics 📈manage firm 💻challenge the hacker... ServiceIT is a simulation game where you run a full-service IT company to engage in tasks like diagnosing, repairing equipment, network infiltration, programming, server management while an Anonymous hacker keeps sabotaging it all.
Why similar: Hacking 30.5% ★, Programming 30.4% ★, Education 20.2%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Simulation 6.1%
You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.
Why similar: Programming 59.8% ★, Education 30.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.1%
ThreatGEN: Red vs. Blue is an educational game-based cybersecurity simulator designed for those with genuine interest in cybersecurity. Learn and practice cybersecurity concepts & strategy, play as the red team (hackers) or the blue team (defenders), single player or online vs. a colleague.
Why similar: Hacking 57.7% ★, Education 31.1%, Simulation 9.3%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 60% ★, Crime 21.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Indie 3%, Story Rich 2.6%
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 30% ★, Programming 28.3% ★, Education 19%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Simulation 5.6%
Ever wanted to feel like a hacker? Welcome to the Lonely Hacker! A realistic hacking simulation game!
Why similar: Hacking 39.7% ★, Immersive Sim 24.7%, Education 24.5%, Simulation 11.1%
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 37.7% ★, Programming 29.6% ★, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Text-Based 9.5%, Simulation 6.4%
Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.
Why similar: Hacking 45.9% ★, Crime 23.8%, Programming 22.5% ★, Story Rich 5%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 40.6% ★, Hacking 30.4% ★, Education 20.4%, Simulation 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Why similar: Programming 33.7% ★, Hacking 27.3% ★, Education 21.7%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Simulation 5.2%
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 77.8% ★, Simulation 22.2%
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 78% ★, Simulation 17.7%, Indie 4.3%
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 37.8% ★, Hacking 25.6% ★, Education 19.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Text-Based 7.4%
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 60.5% ★, Programming 24.1% ★, Simulation 9.5%, Story Rich 2.7%, Indie 2.4%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 73.9% ★, Education 13.7%, Simulation 5.5%, Hacking 5.2% ★, Indie 1.1%
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 47.6% ★, Hacking 31.7% ★, Text-Based 10.1%, Education 6.6%, Simulation 3.4%
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 41.4% ★, Hacking 27.1% ★, Education 15.7%, Simulation 12.3%, Indie 2.6%
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in HackHub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
Why similar: Hacking 65.4% ★, Crime 19.1%, Simulation 15%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 57.9% ★, Simulation 38.7%, Indie 3.4%
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 57% ★, Immersive Sim 17.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Text-Based 6.3%, Story Rich 5.8%
Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 32.9%, Simulation 29.3%, Text-Based 27.4%, Story Rich 6.8%, Indie 2.2%
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.
Why similar: Programming 36.3% ★, Hacking 33.8% ★, Education 21.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Indie 0.6%
An interactive text-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Education 32.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 55.4% ★, Education 31.3%, Text-Based 9.7%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 54.6% ★, Education 28%, Text-Based 15.6%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
Why similar: Programming 36.6% ★, Hacking 32.1% ★, Education 23.3%, Simulation 6.5%, Indie 0.9%
Milling machine simulator will inspire novices and experts alike. Realistic physics and movements allow you to familiarize yourself with the machine in a 3D workshop setting. Enjoy playing around, learning and prototyping in Free milling mode. Or challenge yourself in Career mode.
Why similar: Programming 45.7% ★, Education 30%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Indie 1.2%
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: Programming 36.5% ★, Hacking 34.6% ★, Education 15.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Indie 2.4%
Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.
Why similar: Hacking 72.8% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Story Rich 9%, Immersive Sim 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!
Why similar: Programming 44.8% ★, Hacking 24.8% ★, Education 22.3%, Simulation 7%, Indie 0.8%
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 ...
PC Virtual Lab is a video game to improve learning in basic computer concepts.
Why similar: Education 52.5%, Immersive Sim 29.1%, Simulation 17.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator
Why similar: Programming 43% ★, Education 28%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 33.2% ★, Education 32%, Hacking 25.7% ★, Simulation 8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.
Why similar: Programming 33.8% ★, Hacking 31.3% ★, Education 18.9%, Text-Based 9.8%, Simulation 4.9%
Welcome to DROP, a fast-paced action-strategy hacking simulator. Ready to hack your way to fame and fortune while avoiding getting caught? Use stealth and cunning to maneuver between the ongoing power struggle of corporations and factions to control the fragmented networks in the city.
Why similar: Hacking 55% ★, Crime 33.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 40.9% ★, Hacking 26.2% ★, Education 19.3%, Simulation 6.2%, Text-Based 5.5%
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 84.9% ★, Story Rich 11.1%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.
Why similar: Crime 59.2%, Simulation 20.7%, Immersive Sim 15.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%, Indie 1.8%
See the logic all of us obey. Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ visual puzzles and hack other players’ creations. No coding or physics background required.
Why similar: Hacking 35.2% ★, Programming 35.2% ★, Education 22.3%, Simulation 6.3%, Singleplayer 1%