
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Hacking, Simulation, Programming, Singleplayer.

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.

Blackdoor
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.

Artificial Intelligence Simulator
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.
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 32.7% ★, Programming 26.2% ★, Typing 10.2% ★, Text-Based 7.4%, Cyberpunk 5.4%
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 29.6% ★, Programming 25.2% ★, Software 20.3% ★, Artificial Intelligence 13.6%, Simulation 4.4%
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 33.9% ★, Programming 16.3% ★, Typing 10.4% ★, Text-Based 8.8%, Artificial Intelligence 6.9%
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 35% ★, Programming 28.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 9%, Simulation 8.4%, Education 8.1%
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 31.3% ★, Programming 21.8% ★, Espionage 8.9% ★, Typing 7.6% ★, Text-Based 6.5%
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 36% ★, Programming 27.7% ★, Typing 8.9% ★, Text-Based 7.5%, Simulation 7.4%
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 33.6% ★, Programming 32.8% ★, Text-Based 11.2%, Education 8.7%, Puzzle 4.5%
HACKING INTO EREBUS is a terminal-driven hacking cyberpunk thriller. Jack into a hostile network and outsmart ARIA, a surveillance system that watches your every move. Breach nodes, override defenses and pry secrets from a crew trapped in cryosleep. Fight your way into Compartment Zero.
Why similar: Hacking 29.5% ★, Programming 24.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 10.7%, Typing 10% ★, Cyberpunk 7.2%
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 48% ★, Programming 29.6% ★, Simulation 5.5%, Typing 3.9% ★, Text-Based 3.6%
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 40% ★, Hacking 30% ★, Education 9.7%, Logic 6.8%, Simulation 6.3%
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 31% ★, Programming 27% ★, Typing 11.8% ★, Education 7.7%, Cyberpunk 6.1%
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 35.9% ★, Programming 35.1% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Education 7.4%, Puzzle 5.5%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 37.4% ★, Hacking 29.5% ★, Typing 9.1% ★, Simulation 7.7%, Text-Based 7.6%
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 39% ★, Programming 32.7% ★, Text-Based 8.2%, Cyberpunk 7.2%, Simulation 4.8%
HACKERGAME is a 2D terminal-based arcade hacking game and is currently in the early days of development.
Why similar: Hacking 33.3% ★, Programming 24.8% ★, Software 18.5% ★, Typing 9.7% ★, Text-Based 7.9%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 44.9% ★, Programming 34.4% ★, Typing 13.6% ★, Simulation 6.1%, Adventure 0.6%
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 38.4% ★, Programming 36.7% ★, Education 11.4%, Logic 6.5%, Puzzle 6%
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 46.8% ★, Artificial Intelligence 20.1%, Text-Based 11.5%, Cyberpunk 10.5%, Simulation 8.2%
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 35.2% ★, Programming 29.3% ★, Typing 11.9% ★, Text-Based 6.2%, Simulation 5.7%
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 30.5% ★, Programming 26% ★, Typing 10.6% ★, Text-Based 7%, Cyberpunk 5.2%
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 43.6% ★, Hacking 35.2% ★, Puzzle 6.3%, Cyberpunk 6.3%, Logic 4.2%
Terminal Insanity: CodeJacker is a competitive coding game featuring 4 distinct game modes. In one, you play as an Attacker trying to corrupt source code, or as a Defender, making sure that the program still executes without leaks or crashes. C, Python, and JavaScript are supported, with more coming
Why similar: Hacking 27.2% ★, Programming 22.8% ★, Software 16.8% ★, Typing 9.3% ★, Text-Based 7%
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 31.9% ★, Programming 26.8% ★, Espionage 13.3% ★, Typing 7.6% ★, Simulation 5.1%
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 37.4% ★, Programming 17% ★, Typing 12.8% ★, Text-Based 11%, Puzzle 6.1%
Void Future: Prologue is a standalone free experience set in the universe of Void Future. Play as a hacker in a cyberpunk world ruled by corporations and complete a single, fully designed mission. Hack systems, solve puzzles,and uncover secrets — while staying hidden from a system that never sleeps.
Why similar: Hacking 18.7% ★, Typing 14.2% ★, Artificial Intelligence 12.8%, Programming 11.6% ★, Simulation 10.2%
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 53.8% ★, Programming 19.9% ★, Typing 9.6% ★, Simulation 7.2%, Puzzle 4.7%
Make a Snake AI using simple visual commands. Develop a strategy, let the computer do the hard work, sit back and watch it play the game for you.
Why similar: Hacking 31.5% ★, Programming 30.2% ★, Artificial Intelligence 14.6%, Education 9.4%, Puzzle 4.5%
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 43.9% ★, Hacking 31.2% ★, Text-Based 9.9%, Cyberpunk 5.8%, Education 3%
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 42% ★, Hacking 29.6% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Education 8.1%, Puzzle 7%
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 35.7% ★, Programming 29.2% ★, Typing 11.8% ★, Investigation 6.4%, Logic 5.1%
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: Hacking 27.8% ★, Programming 27.7% ★, Software 16.2% ★, Education 8.7%, Simulation 5.8%
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 31% ★, Programming 26.3% ★, Typing 10.6% ★, Text-Based 9.6%, Cyberpunk 8.3%
Silent Signals is a screen-based detective game where you solve dark cyber mysteries as an ethical hacker. Dive into isolated systems, decrypt secrets, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Software 25.2% ★, Hacking 24.4% ★, Programming 18.4% ★, Cyberpunk 8.6%, Simulation 6.8%
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 45.2% ★, Programming 19.2% ★, Text-Based 7.1%, Cyberpunk 7%, Typing 6.7% ★
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 37.6% ★, Programming 30.6% ★, Education 12.2%, Text-Based 10.2%, Simulation 6.3%
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: Programming 36% ★, Hacking 32.2% ★, Logic 6.3%, Text-Based 5.8%, Puzzle 5.1%
Hifuu OS: Immersive hacking simulator based on the Touhou Project. Play as Renko Usami, learn and use authentic terminal commands to hack into the Great Hakurei Barrier. Unravel the truth behind Maribel Hearn's mysterious coma as you search through Gensokyo's secret and private documents.
Why similar: Hacking 36% ★, Programming 18.6% ★, Text-Based 12%, Typing 9.2% ★, Investigation 5.2%
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 42.7% ★, Hacking 39.1% ★, Simulation 8%, Puzzle 6.1%, Logic 3.7%
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 36.7% ★, Hacking 25.4% ★, Education 8.8%, Typing 7.1% ★, Puzzle 6.3%
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 24.6% ★, Espionage 14.2% ★, Cyberpunk 7.9%, Typing 7.5% ★
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 42.3% ★, Programming 14.8% ★, Text-Based 12.2%, Artificial Intelligence 9.5%, Typing 8.7% ★
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% ★, Programming 9.1% ★, Typing 3.7% ★, Education 2.4%, Cyberpunk 2.3%
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 44.8% ★, Cyberpunk 12%, Education 11.6%, Text-Based 9.2%, Simulation 6.9%
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 61.8% ★, Hacking 20.4% ★, Puzzle 6.9%, Simulation 3.8%, Logic 3.3%
Solve programming puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication and unique limitations. Competitively optimize to compete on leaderboards against friends and the global community.
Why similar: Programming 44.3% ★, Hacking 28.9% ★, Puzzle 7.5%, Logic 7.2%, Text-Based 7%
A programming puzzle game, but YOU CAN'T TYPE. Navigate and run pre-existing lines of code! Watch out for bugs eating away your program!
Why similar: Hacking 36.6% ★, Programming 33.8% ★, Text-Based 12.6%, Puzzle 6.7%, Logic 4.9%
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 49.5% ★, Programming 24.8% ★, Typing 10.3% ★, Simulation 7.1%, Cyberpunk 7%
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 39.9% ★, Hacking 37.2% ★, Investigation 9.8%, Cyberpunk 9.7%, Sci-fi 2.8%
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 41.6% ★, Text-Based 13.4%, Cyberpunk 9.2%, Typing 9.1% ★, Education 8.3%
Become a Robotic Exploration Systems Programmer (RESP). Get sent to the corners of the galaxy and program robots like if your life depended on it, because it does.
Why similar: Programming 37.9% ★, Hacking 36.5% ★, Puzzle 6.5%, Simulation 6.3%, Cyberpunk 5.5%
Experience hacking and uncover hidden secrets. Type commands to decode messages, navigate systems, and gain remote access to devices.
Why similar: Hacking 35.4% ★, Programming 30% ★, Typing 9.1% ★, Investigation 7.4%, Text-Based 5.2%
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 33.3% ★, Programming 27.6% ★, Text-Based 9.2%, Cyberpunk 8%, Logic 6.1%
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 37.6% ★, Hacking 27.4% ★, Education 10%, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 7.9%
Solve puzzles and learn how to code in this unique and gripping sci-fi adventure!
Why similar: Hacking 37.4% ★, Programming 35.6% ★, Education 11.2%, Puzzle 6.6%, Logic 4.6%
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: Hacking 40.5% ★, Programming 23.6% ★, Espionage 18.1% ★, Text-Based 5.3%, Investigation 4.4%
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 46.8% ★, Hacking 38.4% ★, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 7%
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 46.6% ★, Hacking 29.5% ★, Education 11.1%, Puzzle 8.5%, Adventure 2.5%
Learn programming by implementing an elevator through a guided tour
Why similar: Programming 41.6% ★, Software 14.6% ★, Typing 12.1% ★, Education 11.2%, Simulation 9.1%
Power on an old computer and meet LITA. Together, you will explore how computer memory works through a series of puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 46.4% ★, Software 19.3% ★, Education 11.1%, Puzzle 7.9%, Logic 7.6%
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Why similar: Programming 48.6% ★, Hacking 42.2% ★, Cyberpunk 6.5%, Adventure 1.7%, Indie 1.1%