
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.

CyberQuest
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!

Grey Hack
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.
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 30.1% ★, Programming 22.5% ★, Education 17.1%, Crime 14.6%, Immersive Sim 6.7%
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 45% ★, Programming 28.4% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Education 6.2%, Crime 6.1%
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: Programming 32.8% ★, Hacking 32.2% ★, Education 18%, Text-Based 10.7%, Simulation 4.9%
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts. 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. Better code = better hacker.
Why similar: Hacking 33.4% ★, Programming 27.9% ★, Crime 12.1%, Education 9%, Text-Based 7.5%
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 35.4% ★, Hacking 34.8% ★, Education 15.3%, Simulation 11.4%, Indie 2.3%
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 41% ★, Hacking 29.5% ★, Education 20.4%, Simulation 7.7%, Indie 0.8%
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 40.3% ★, Hacking 27.2% ★, Education 16%, Simulation 13.2%, 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 31.6% ★, Programming 26% ★, Education 17.3%, Immersive Sim 16.4%, Simulation 6.2%
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 37.3% ★, Programming 37.2% ★, Education 23.9%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%
A story-rich hacking simulation set inside a full Linux desktop environment. Use real terminal commands, crack passwords, intercept traffic, and expose a secret autonomous AI program.. before it exposes you.
Why similar: Hacking 36.5% ★, Programming 29.3% ★, Crime 13.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Text-Based 7.6%
⚡️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 28.9% ★, Education 20%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Simulation 6.4%
Computer Sciene Training Program (German Only, sorry)
Why similar: Programming 39.5% ★, Education 29.6%, Text-Based 18.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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 35% ★, Programming 30.4% ★, Crime 20.2%, Simulation 7.1%, Text-Based 6.2%
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 41.1% ★, Education 22.8%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Text-Based 8.4%, Simulation 7.9%
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 41% ★, Programming 35.9% ★, Text-Based 8.6%, Education 6.6%, Simulation 6.3%
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 34.6% ★, Crime 25.5%, Simulation 19.4%, Immersive Sim 17.7%, Indie 2.7%
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 ISP!
Why similar: Hacking 29.6% ★, Programming 26.9% ★, Education 19%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Simulation 5.9%
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 45.3% ★, Programming 23.6% ★, Crime 21.3%, Simulation 8%, Singleplayer 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: Education 24.2%, Hacking 20.6% ★, Programming 17.4% ★, Simulation 12%, Crime 9.9%
HELLO HACKER features a realistic terminal. Use real Linux commands, network scanning, password cracking, and cryptography to infiltrate 10 interconnected servers and expose a deadly government surveillance program. Your colleague is missing. You're next. Are you ready to be a hacker?
Why similar: Hacking 38.1% ★, Programming 18% ★, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Text-Based 11.2%, Crime 10.2%
You're the new judge in the dusty ol' town of Dry Gulch, and let me tell you, there's only one kind of case on your docket. Homicide. Prove you're the sharpest gavel in the West, deciding farcical homicide cases inspired by landmark rulings and bar exam questions. Dry Gulch is waitin' on you, Judge!
Why similar: Education 35.3%, Immersive Sim 33.3%, Text-Based 16.9%, Simulation 13.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 38% ★, Programming 29.6% ★, Education 12.6%, Text-Based 10.1%, Simulation 6.7%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 50.4% ★, Education 25.3%, Hacking 17.4% ★, Simulation 6.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 46.9% ★, Hacking 31.9% ★, Text-Based 10.1%, Education 6.7%, Simulation 3.7%
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 36.8% ★, Hacking 25.7% ★, Education 20.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Text-Based 7.3%
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 75.6% ★, Programming 9.3% ★, Crime 6.3%, Education 5%, Simulation 2.2%
Algotica is an educational puzzle game about programming with cute lowpoly graphics. If you wanted to start learning programming but think that it too difficult to understand or just don't have enough time or not sure that you need it - this game is a good start point for you
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Hacking 28.1% ★, Education 22.7%, Indie 2.9%
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 42.5% ★, Crime 21.9%, Immersive Sim 17%, Simulation 10.9%, Programming 6.6% ★
Every file is a puzzle. Every clue is hidden in plain sight. Dive into your brand new computer system, solve intricate challenges, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Hacking 35.5% ★, Crime 28.2%, Immersive Sim 25.5%, Simulation 7%, Story Rich 2.7%
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 42.2% ★, Crime 25.8%, Immersive Sim 19.2%, Simulation 11.7%, Indie 0.7%
Become one of the best freelancers, starting your way from scratch. Fulfill orders of varying difficulty.
Why similar: Hacking 38.1% ★, Programming 29.7% ★, Education 23%, Simulation 8.6%, Indie 0.3%
The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.
Why similar: Hacking 33.8% ★, Programming 23.8% ★, Crime 19.1%, Education 17.7%, Simulation 4.5%
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: Hacking 30.2% ★, Programming 25.7% ★, Crime 19.7%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Text-Based 6.2%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 49.9% ★, Programming 39.9% ★, Simulation 8.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%, Indie 0.6%
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 40.4% ★, Programming 36.1% ★, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Simulation 8%, Indie 0.2%
Create your own AI, program the AIs of the future. If you're ready to create a learning mind, code cybersecurity, robotics, and chatbots, and push the boundaries against other AIs in the system. Create, train, develop, and compete.
Why similar: Hacking 36.1% ★, Programming 32.1% ★, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Education 9.1%, Simulation 6.7%
Dive into a sandbox operating system simulator and learn to code with FantasyLang. Personalise your desktop, build and tweak apps, uncover hidden secrets, and venture into the darknet. Shape the system however you like. Your OS, your rules.
Why similar: Programming 30.4% ★, Hacking 29.3% ★, Education 19.6%, Immersive Sim 7.6%, Simulation 7.6%
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 41% ★, Programming 20.6% ★, Immersive Sim 18.1%, Text-Based 10.7%, Simulation 7.5%
Learn to code in Java as well as learning important Object Oriented Programming principles. Solve puzzles while learning new features as you track down the evil wizard intent on destroying the world. Write real Java code while playing through an RPG story!
Why similar: Hacking 37.3% ★, Programming 35.8% ★, Education 26%, Story Rich 0.6%, Indie 0.2%
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 36.1% ★, Programming 32.8% ★, Education 19.4%, Simulation 6.3%, Crime 4.4%
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 37.4% ★, Programming 31.5% ★, Education 22.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.1%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 45.3% ★, Hacking 34.3% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Text-Based 8.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 39.9% ★, Hacking 26.4% ★, Education 19.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Text-Based 5.4%
Pick up the tokens, write the source code, and repair the data that your doctor has deleted! Write source code that achieves the input and expected output pairs set for each stage. The code is written in tolerance, a dedicated language.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Immersive Sim 19.4%, Education 18.3%, Text-Based 10.8%, Simulation 6.7%
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 52.6% ★, Crime 17.7%, Simulation 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11%, Story Rich 2.6%
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
Why similar: Programming 65.8% ★, Hacking 20.8% ★, Education 7%, Simulation 4.8%, Indie 1.1%
A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 53.9% ★, Education 28.7%, Text-Based 15.6%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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: Programming 46.9% ★, Hacking 41.2% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 42.4% ★, Education 18.3%, Text-Based 13.7%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Simulation 10.5%
The world's first Unity programming learning game with C-Sharp. Explore, solve, and modify code in themed challenges from basics to expert levels. Dive into a one-of-a-kind learning adventure, mastering Unity along the way.
Why similar: Programming 33.7% ★, Hacking 26.1% ★, Education 21.7%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Simulation 6%
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 33.4% ★, Programming 29.6% ★, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Text-Based 10.4%, Simulation 6.4%
An interactive text-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.
Why similar: Programming 49.7% ★, Education 33.1%, Text-Based 15.6%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 39.4% ★, Crime 23.6%, Programming 19.2% ★, Simulation 15.1%, Indie 1.7%
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: Programming 52.4% ★, Hacking 40.5% ★, Simulation 5.4%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Programming 39.8% ★, Hacking 30.8% ★, Education 19.9%, Simulation 8%, Indie 0.8%
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 60.7% ★, Programming 23.4% ★, Simulation 10.2%, Story Rich 2.7%, Indie 2.3%
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 49.6% ★, Programming 22.1% ★, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Text-Based 7.8%, Simulation 5%
The world runs on systems you're not supposed to touch. SIGKILL hands you the keys. A realistic hacking simulator where every hack ripples through a living geopolitical simulation. What you do with that power is up to you.
Why similar: Hacking 40.7% ★, Programming 29.7% ★, Crime 12.6%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Simulation 5.1%