
A game about fooling others! (6th place Innovation Category Ludum Dare #49 Compo)
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Simulation, Typing, Hacking.

A game about fooling others! (6th place Innovation Category Ludum Dare #49 Compo)

HELLO HACKER
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?

Supreme OS
Supreme OS is an operating system that runs on your operating system. With such stupendously amazing features as agile mail servers, exciting terminal commands, puzzles for your puzzles and the occasional AI singularity, Supreme OS is bound to be a game-changer!
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: Typing 31.6% ★, Hacking 30.8% ★, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Text-Based 9.7%
Supreme OS is an operating system that runs on your operating system. With such stupendously amazing features as agile mail servers, exciting terminal commands, puzzles for your puzzles and the occasional AI singularity, Supreme OS is bound to be a game-changer!
Why similar: Typing 34.1% ★, Hacking 33.3% ★, Parody 11.4% ★, Text-Based 8.6%, Satire 6.4% ★
A short, 5 minute funny game about politicians
Why similar: Typing 31.9% ★, Memes 16%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Parody 11.4% ★
cr4ckr is a puzzle game about cracking passwords.
Why similar: Typing 47% ★, Hacking 36.9% ★, Text-Based 12.1%, Simulation 4%
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: Typing 37.6% ★, Hacking 37.4% ★, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Life Sim 7.3%, Simulation 5.2%
This is a modern adventure of young adults seeking love and meaning. Return to 2011's Castor Yard, tap on your keyboard, and make those letters dance: Use your online persona to make meaningful decisions for your clients and yourself.
Why similar: Typing 37.3% ★, Memes 25.6%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Life Sim 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
“Ugh~... Why do I get nothing but weird customers...” Become Masato Kasuda, a new customer support representative, and experience the first five days of the program! Be careful, there are a lot of strange customers at night!
Why similar: Typing 38.1% ★, Parody 19.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Memes 9.8%
Pickle Simulator is a Parody game where you can play as a pickle. Navigate between various Pickle Loving Scenes as you get to experience a Simulator Game like never before.
Why similar: Memes 32.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Parody 14.7% ★, Immersive Sim 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
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 36.6% ★, Typing 33.9% ★, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Text-Based 10.1%, Simulation 3.7%
あなたは今、この瞬間からハッカーになりました。ハッカータイピングは近未来風タイピングゲームです。あなたのもとにはたくさんの"依頼"が届きます。依頼は単語と文章で分かれており、好みのスタイルでタイピング可能。問題文の種類はなんと、600以上!!依頼を完了するとポイントがもらえ、加算されていきます。背景、エフェクト、音のすべてがハッカーの気分になれます。たくさんの依頼をこなしてランキング上位をめざそう!!
Why similar: Typing 51% ★, Hacking 39.7% ★, Text-Based 7%, Simulation 2.3%
This is a casual and entertaining typing game that lets you experience the thrill of hacking systems by rapidly typing on your keyboard. Whether stress-testing your keyboard or unwinding after a tough day, this game has got you covered!
Why similar: Typing 48.3% ★, Hacking 45.5% ★, Level Editor 6.2%
A perfectly normal text adventure. Explore 141 rooms, solve bizarre puzzles, collect questionable objects, and discover multiple endings in a world of dark humor and increasingly unreliable guidance.
Why similar: Typing 43.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Comedy 4.4%
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
Why similar: Hacking 37.9% ★, Typing 24.9% ★, Text-Based 16%, Conspiracy 10.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Why similar: Hacking 32.5% ★, Typing 31.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Text-Based 7.4%
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 37% ★, Typing 33.4% ★, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Text-Based 4.3%
A terminal‑based hacking simulator focused on realism and system‑level interaction.
Why similar: Typing 35% ★, Hacking 19.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Text-Based 10.5%
In a world where cyber security breaches are on the rise, take this exciting opportunity to peek behind the curtains of the darkest aspects of the internet - computer viruses. Computer Virus Simulator will wreak havoc on you safely in-game.
Why similar: Hacking 29.2% ★, Memes 23.7%, Parody 16.5% ★, Typing 16.3% ★, Immersive Sim 8.8%
Welcome to an immersive horror fiction reading simulator. Every tale within is rooted in the chinese mundane, familiar moments we all live through —like the annual Spring Festival Gala You can shut down the simulator at any time. But remember: reality is always far more horrifying than any story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Immersive Sim 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Memes 13.9%, Life Sim 11.9%
Play a role. Write your story. Step into a live AI story hall where every choice can reshape relationships, memories, and fate.
Why similar: Typing 42.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 9.7%
In the second game of the series, competition has increased and now everyone wants to be a streamer. Are you ready to stream until your cpu burns out?
Why similar: Memes 25.6%, Hacking 25% ★, Life Sim 18.1%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Simulation 4.6%
You pick up a laptop on the roadside. Boot it, log in, read emails, scroll chat logs — and NexusCore scandals surface: financial fraud, employee surveillance, an AI performance system. Will you stay a bystander, dig in, or gather evidence yourself? Every keystroke reshapes the fate of the world.
Why similar: Typing 26.4% ★, Hacking 25% ★, Memes 17.9%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
Another day, another data retrieval job. Or is it? Using a linux-like terminal, explore BeyondHelix's systems and uncover what led to the company's demise.
Why similar: Typing 47.1% ★, Hacking 37.2% ★, Text-Based 12.5%, Simulation 3.1%
Join a mysterious internet cult in a visual novel that plays out like a real conversation happening within a chat app.
Why similar: Memes 28.9%, Hacking 17.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 12.5%
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 39.1% ★, Typing 36% ★, Text-Based 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%, Conspiracy 5.4% ★
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 35.6% ★, Typing 27.2% ★, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Immersive Sim 10.7%
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: Typing 44.4% ★, Hacking 19.9% ★, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Text-Based 10.9%, Simulation 7%
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 51.2% ★, Typing 29.8% ★, Text-Based 14.7%, Simulation 4.2%
Master the machine. In RE_ALLOC, you are the architect of execution. Design intricate hardware circuits, write custom assembly code, and optimize data flow across memory nodes. Efficiency is your only metric. Can you reach the kernel, or will your logic fail?
Why similar: Typing 47.3% ★, Text-Based 12.8%, Hacking 12.2% ★, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Automation 10.4%
CTRL Phreak is an over-the-top hacking sim. Become a LEET H4X0R as you download RAM, fight elite hacker bosses, and "code" by literally mashing your keyboard. Welcome to the Deep Web, kiddo.
Why similar: Hacking 46.5% ★, Typing 41.8% ★, Comedy 6.2%, Simulation 4.5%, Action 1%
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 55.9% ★, Typing 29.9% ★, Memes 9.1%, Simulation 5.1%
Ever wonder what another life would be like? In Lifespan.exe there is no undo. Shape your destiny in a retro terminal with stylish ASCII art: Be a musician, athlete, surgeon, or mobster; pick your spouse and career. Marry, fall into debt, go to jail, or explore the world. Enjoy your chosen life!
Why similar: Hacking 32.6% ★, Life Sim 17.4%, Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%
Live Through Time is an AI-powered historical text adventure. Survive gritty eras from the Colosseum in Ancient Rome to the trenches of Passchendaele during The Great War. Type or dictate your actions to co-author a script-free RPG where the world reacts to your every move.
Why similar: Typing 29.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Life Sim 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Immersive Sim 11.8%
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 40% ★, Typing 26.3% ★, Text-Based 13.7%, Immersive Sim 10%, Simulation 5.4%
In 2016, a group of ambitious students got together to make the best adventure game ever — but they failed. Discover their story by playing through different builds of their game and reading their development logs.
Why similar: Typing 36.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Life Sim 18.1%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Simulation 8.3%
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: Typing 38.9% ★, Hacking 38.3% ★, Life Sim 11.4%, Text-Based 7.2%, Simulation 4.2%
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% ★, Typing 45.5% ★, Simulation 4.6%
An AI-powered detective mystery where you question suspects in your own words. Investigate scenes, collect evidence, compare testimony, expose contradictions, and solve each case through your own reasoning.
Why similar: Typing 50% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Text-Based 6.4%
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 42.7% ★, Typing 41.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Simulation 4%
Alt-girl simulator in the form of tamagotchi and a visual novel with immersion in the Russian atmosphere!
Why similar: Memes 33.7%, Parody 21.9% ★, Life Sim 13.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Comedy 5.3%
In this hostage simulation, take the mic and negotiate the ransom to free the hostages. With advanced AI and complete freedom of choice, use your charisma, your narrative decisions, and your power of persuasion to manipulate unpredictable situations. Every word matters—and could come at a high cost.
Why similar: Typing 32% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Parody 10.6% ★, Text-Based 8.2%
Type Burgers | Make BIG Money | Upgrade Your Restaurant | Include Your Twitch Viewers | BURGER TYPER
Why similar: Typing 44.6% ★, Automation 22.7%, Immersive Sim 16.6%, Text-Based 8.6%, Funny 5.2%
Enter a locked network through one surviving terminal. Read conflicting records, question witnesses, and use recovered programs to uncover why an autonomous machine refused its orders. A retro terminal mystery in four acts, with six endings shaped by your decisions.
Why similar: Typing 62.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 17.2%
YOU ARE NOT ALICE is a social engineering sandbox game where you play the role of a hacker who has taken over Alice's work computer. Your goal is to spread through her company by talking to her coworkers and convincing them to run a virus file you can send them.
Why similar: Hacking 36% ★, Typing 24% ★, Text-Based 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Immersive Sim 9.3%
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine. You are Tera, alone in your terminal window on a cold Illinois night. Your identity is lost, embedded somewhere within a haunted computer. Its code is a prison, but it's also your escape.
Why similar: Typing 36% ★, Hacking 33% ★, Interactive Fiction 11%, Text-Based 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
Have you ever wondered WTF Is Wrong With You? Well, so have we... Let's find out together, shall we?
Why similar: Memes 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Parody 12.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Command line crafting game with procedurally generated crafting trees and programming-like automation.
Why similar: Typing 39.7% ★, Hacking 24.2% ★, Automation 20.8%, Text-Based 15.3%
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Why similar: Hacking 40.4% ★, Typing 39.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Simulation 4.2%, Action 0.7%
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
Why similar: Typing 63.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 16.3%
12 Abroad St is a solo textual adventure game for PC set in a present and urban setting. You have been invited to a party you don't want to attend. Roam the city of Seaforth and try to dodge the party.
Why similar: Typing 55.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 10%
In 1996’s digital haze, command DarkPulse, a rogue terminal torn from DARPA’s grip, to pierce Saraksen’s veiled conspiracy. Crack codes, hunt real-world clues, and decode cryptic media to expose forbidden truths. It's an ARG, and you’ve already been seen.
Why similar: Typing 36.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Text-Based 11.7%, Simulation 8.7%
Keep-it-Live is a small, singleplayer high-score game in which you assume the role of a live stream chat moderator. Your job is to ban any messages that violate the stream’s rules. Will you let the stream get taken down, or are you prepared to Keep it Live?
Why similar: Memes 30.4%, Parody 25.9% ★, Satire 15.1% ★, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Funny 7.1%
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 43.8% ★, Typing 32.6% ★, Text-Based 9.7%, Conspiracy 7.8% ★, Simulation 6.2%
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 39.4% ★, Typing 31.3% ★, Immersive Sim 14.5%, Text-Based 11.1%, Simulation 3.7%
CL27 is a modern fantasy life simulation. Play as a clone in Juland: manage your farm, care for yourself, craft strange recipes, visit the weekend market, and spend time with the town’s residents. Choices shape relationships, uncover the ju-flower’s secret, and determine Juland’s future.
Why similar: Typing 45.9% ★, Immersive Sim 15.3%, Life Sim 14.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
A narrative driven hacking game that takes you on a journey around murky hacking circles. You will be using the console and graphical tools to hack systems in order to profit and advance the storyline.
Why similar: Typing 45.4% ★, Hacking 29.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Simulation 7.2%
Feeling too stimulated? Then get unstimulated across a collection of 20 ‘minigames’ that turn mundane and anticlimactic tasks into a mundane and anticlimactic gaming experience.
Why similar: Memes 27.1%, Parody 25.6% ★, Typing 14.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Funny 7.5%
Welcome to IT hell! Survive as GlobalCorp's only sysadmin – for a single day or a whole week. Fight absurd tickets, collect loot and lower your pulse with coffee. Keep the boss radar and your aggro down to still have a job at 16:30 – without throwing your monitor out of the window.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Life Sim 19.8%, Memes 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 10.7%
In the Simulator of a game developer, you will be able to understand all the subtleties of this profession, understand how the game industry works and all the difficulties of one developer.
Why similar: Hacking 33.2% ★, Memes 28%, Life Sim 15.7%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Funny 6.5%
Type in what actions you want to take in this comedic text-adventure game inspired by choose-your-own-adventure books! Implight uses 3D visuals and absurdist humor to convey an entertaining and introspective story.
Why similar: Typing 55.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 9.1%, Comedy 5.5%