60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Hacking, Programming, Singleplayer.
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!
Code World
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.
Markov Alg
Markov Alg is a puzzle game where you can change the game field according to instructions that are written on the game field
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 32.2% ★, Programming 32.2% ★, Text-Based 17.2%, Logic 9.3%, Simulation 5.3%
Markov Alg is a puzzle game where you can change the game field according to instructions that are written on the game field
Why similar: Hacking 28.3% ★, Programming 27.2% ★, Text-Based 13%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Logic 8.4%
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 34.6% ★, Programming 34.6% ★, Logic 12.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Indie 4.5%
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 31.8% ★, Programming 22.7% ★, Text-Based 10.7%, Logic 9.5%, Simulation 8.9%
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 34.7% ★, Programming 28% ★, Text-Based 12.4%, Simulation 7.5%, Logic 6.5%
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: Programming 38.1% ★, Hacking 34.1% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Logic 7.7%, Retro 4.4%
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 40.9% ★, Hacking 30% ★, Logic 16.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Indie 1.6%
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 32% ★, Text-Based 17.1%, Programming 16.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Logic 8%
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 38.4% ★, Hacking 24.4% ★, Logic 14.8%, Text-Based 9.5%, Simulation 5%
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 48.7% ★, Programming 30.7% ★, Simulation 7.6%, Text-Based 5.8%, Logic 4.8%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 38.6% ★, Hacking 29.7% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Simulation 10.5%, Retro 4.2%
Retro Hacker simulates hacking from a computer terminal with a text based operating system.
Why similar: Hacking 42.3% ★, Text-Based 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Indie 3.1%
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 38% ★, Programming 29.9% ★, Text-Based 12.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Indie 4.6%
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 35.1% ★, Programming 29.9% ★, Life Sim 13.9%, Text-Based 9.9%, Simulation 7.7%
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 32.3% ★, Programming 30.6% ★, Text-Based 17.9%, Logic 10.5%, Simulation 5.7%
Become one of the best freelancers, starting your way from scratch. Fulfill orders of varying difficulty.
Why similar: Hacking 35.1% ★, Programming 26.8% ★, Life Sim 18.2%, Simulation 8.6%, Logic 8.6%
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 40.9% ★, Programming 35.2% ★, Text-Based 13.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Indie 3.1%
Build a life from childhood to legacy. LIVORA is a choice-driven life simulation where education, work, money, relationships, family, health, time and where you live all connect — and the decisions you make can shape what happens years later.
Why similar: Life Sim 23.9%, Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Simulation 8.1%
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 37.1% ★, Programming 28.3% ★, Text-Based 15.8%, Simulation 7.1%, Logic 6.6%
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% ★, Text-Based 17.5%, Programming 17.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 12%, Logic 6.7%
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 35% ★, Programming 28.5% ★, Text-Based 14.9%, Simulation 6.6%, Logic 6.1%
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 34.6% ★, Programming 28.6% ★, Life Sim 17.7%, Simulation 8.5%, Logic 8.5%
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: Programming 45.5% ★, Hacking 35.9% ★, Logic 10.4%, Simulation 5.2%, Indie 2.1%
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 40.2% ★, Programming 39.3% ★, Logic 16.6%, Indie 2.7%, 2D 0.6%
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 36.2% ★, Programming 26.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Text-Based 8.8%
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 30.1% ★, Programming 26.9% ★, Life Sim 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Simulation 6.6%
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 45.7% ★, Hacking 32.1% ★, Text-Based 16.1%, Simulation 4%, Singleplayer 1.1%
A career-sim roguelite about surviving the software industry. Take the job, inherit someone else's legacy monolith, ship commits, fix the bugs you planted, then outrun the tech debt that compounds while you sleep. Rent's due, burnout's real, and your bank balance and your nerves are both stats.
Why similar: Hacking 33.5% ★, Programming 31.4% ★, Life Sim 18.2%, Simulation 5.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%
Play as the ghost in the machine and hack your way through the 48 levels of the puzzle-platformer H4CT0PL45M! Use your ability to possess hardware to make your way to the end of each level and complete your infiltration.
Why similar: Hacking 50.3% ★, Programming 22% ★, Logic 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Singleplayer 2.3%
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 36.4% ★, Hacking 31.8% ★, Logic 15.2%, Text-Based 9.2%, Simulation 4.9%
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Simulation 15.1%, Character Customization 6%
The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Simulation 9.5%
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 37.3% ★, Programming 31% ★, Text-Based 16.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Story Rich 4.2%
Parent Ted, your own childhood. On this journey, you will have the chance to discover your inner child and better understand the trauma and emotions of your childhood.
Why similar: Life Sim 23%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Simulation 9.6%
Play, learn, and experiment with programming in the Sprite32! 8-bit microcomputer sandbox. Use the high-level FREMScript programming language to write programs, create dynamic pixel art, and explore audio generation. Play tutorials and challenges to learn all the aspects of the system.
Why similar: Programming 46.5% ★, Hacking 20.9% ★, Simulation 11.9%, Logic 8.8%, Retro 7.3%
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 55.4% ★, Programming 21% ★, Simulation 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, Indie 4.1%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 49.1% ★, Programming 38.5% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%, Indie 1.1%
An open-ended programming game in which you optimise 4-core assembly code to maintain a 1990s alt-history dystopian megacity's infrastructure. Take jobs from middlemen with hidden agendas and uncover the chilling consequences of your "routine" fixes in this assembly language puzzle thriller.
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Text-Based 25%, Hacking 12.9% ★, Simulation 11.9%, Logic 5.4%
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 45% ★, Hacking 31% ★, Simulation 16.4%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
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 36.9% ★, Hacking 34.7% ★, Logic 9.7%, Simulation 8.1%, Retro 5.6%
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 37.7% ★, Hacking 25.5% ★, Logic 9.4%, Text-Based 8.4%, Retro 7.3%
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Life Sim 28.5%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Story Rich 6.1%
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 31.8% ★, Programming 27% ★, Logic 14.3%, Text-Based 14.1%, Simulation 6.1%
10 participants. A death game that unfolds over 31 days. If you kill another participant, you can take their prize money. An interactive fiction game where the story changes based on your choices. In this dangerous game, choose who to trust and who to betray.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Simulation 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
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 45.1% ★, Programming 31.7% ★, Simulation 11.9%, Story Rich 4.3%, Indie 3.1%
SIC-1 is a single-instruction programming game. Neglect your personal life in pursuit of promotions and vague assurances of job security! Optimize your programs to rise to the top of the leaderboards! SIC Systems thanks you for your hard work! Now please return to your desk.
Why similar: Programming 35.9% ★, Text-Based 17.3%, Hacking 15.8% ★, Logic 14.3%, Simulation 7.4%
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 46.7% ★, Hacking 37.4% ★, Simulation 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%, Singleplayer 2%
⚡️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 34.5% ★, Programming 32.7% ★, Life Sim 16.3%, Simulation 8.1%, Funny 2.8%
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.8%, Interactive Fiction 34.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Indie 4.1%, Story Rich 3.1%
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 63.3% ★, Hacking 20.4% ★, Logic 8.1%, Simulation 5.2%, Indie 2%
Backdoor is a hacking simulation set in the early days of the Internet. You enter the underground world as a freelance hacker. Build your reputation, upgrade your tools, and take jobs from small clients or large corporations.
Why similar: Hacking 47.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Text-Based 9%, Programming 7.8% ★
Create persistent AI characters, shape their personalities and relationships, and chat privately on your own device. Three conversation quality levels are included. Add local portrait generation with the optional NVIDIA DLC.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Simulation 16.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
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 31.7% ★, Programming 20.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Simulation 7.4%
Stand the 1 a.m. watch as a SOC defensive AI. The intruder is already inside; you see only its traces. Tell attack from routine, pull threads across hosts and keys, win a human sign-off, excise it in one strike. Real ATT&CK techniques, detections you write, twenty-plus nights, more than one ending.
Why similar: Programming 31.5% ★, Hacking 31.4% ★, Text-Based 14.2%, Logic 11.2%, Simulation 5.9%
Guide your character through it all, from their birth to their last breath. Make sure they remember you.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.6%, Text-Based 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Simulation 7.8%, Character Customization 6.4%
Mystery Boxes is a codebreaking puzzle game. Send 4-digit signals to a mysterious artifact, which will respond with another sequence. Look for patterns in the responses to identify the rules, then use this information to produce the target response.
Why similar: Programming 29.5% ★, Hacking 28.8% ★, Logic 15%, Text-Based 13.2%, Simulation 7%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 14.3%, Story Rich 12.6%, Simulation 10.4%
Program a robot and save the hostages! Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment in this tactical programming puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 58.3% ★, Logic 21.6%, Simulation 15.4%, Singleplayer 2.5%, Indie 2.2%
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: Life Sim 26%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 16%, Simulation 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%
You were just the owner of an office, but something piqued your curiosity. Understand what happened to Andy by browsing through his most personal archives and memories. OS: Memories is a short and engaging storyline about the everyday life of a game developer.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Emotional 9.3%
