
An interactive story about hacking, unveiling secrets, chatting with people, and searching for purpose.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Hacking, Singleplayer, Story Rich, Adventure.

An interactive story about hacking, unveiling secrets, chatting with people, and searching for purpose.

GLYPHIS_IO BBS: The Proxy Tapes 1989
A narrative-driven hacking simulator set in an alternate 1989. Enter a clandestine, hacker Bulletin Board System to crack games, control communities, and solve programming puzzles. Featuring retro-inspired mini-games, irl global leaderboards, and a story that will haunt you long after you log off.

RE:Solver
Uncover the truth investigating the RE:Solver case files. Dive into murder mysteries, solo or with friends. Hack, investigate and unravel cases in a virtual internet. Photorealistic characters, engaging gameplay, and stream-friendly. Crack cases reveal secrets. Can you solve the mysteries?
A narrative-driven hacking simulator set in an alternate 1989. Enter a clandestine, hacker Bulletin Board System to crack games, control communities, and solve programming puzzles. Featuring retro-inspired mini-games, irl global leaderboards, and a story that will haunt you long after you log off.
Why similar: Hacking 31.3% ★, Alternate History 14.7%, Conspiracy 12.1% ★, 1980s 11.1%, Investigation 9.6%
Uncover the truth investigating the RE:Solver case files. Dive into murder mysteries, solo or with friends. Hack, investigate and unravel cases in a virtual internet. Photorealistic characters, engaging gameplay, and stream-friendly. Crack cases reveal secrets. Can you solve the mysteries?
Why similar: Hacking 30.1% ★, Conspiracy 19.2% ★, Alternate History 15.1%, Investigation 14%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
Ichth.ys is a visual novel with turn-based combat where your choices affect the story! You follow Fraser, a hacker who was recently expelled from university, in a tale of mystery, deception, censorship, freedom, and board game cafes!
Why similar: Hacking 27.4% ★, Conspiracy 19.1% ★, Alternate History 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Dystopian 9.6%
You are Juno, a teenage girl getting evidence to clear her brother's name. Choose who helps you solve the mystery. With multiple endings, some scenes are flashbacks to the past. Your actions there may even change who committed the crime, with what, and where!
Why similar: Hacking 31.7% ★, Investigation 15.7%, Conspiracy 15.3% ★, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
Hack Into God
Why similar: Hacking 49.6% ★, Investigation 19.5%, Visual Novel 18%, Story Rich 7.9%, Adventure 4.8%
After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.
Why similar: Hacking 36.1% ★, Conspiracy 16.7% ★, Dystopian 15.9%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Story Rich 7.5%
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
Why similar: Hacking 47.4% ★, Conspiracy 27.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Text-Based 6.3%, Retro 4.4%
You are the unseen hand — the resistance's digital arm inside a regime that has begun burning books. Crack the Concord's networks from a green-phosphor terminal, cover every log you touch before the trace fills, and get paid off-grid. 24 missions. Three you are not meant to win.
Why similar: Hacking 56.7% ★, Dystopian 13.9%, Story Rich 8.7%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Retro 4.3%
A story-rich, 3rd-person, investigative, psychological thriller set in a corporate dystopia where you'll help Theo Church escape from a psychiatric hospital using stealth and hacking elements to unravel the conspiracy that landed him there.
Why similar: Hacking 39.5% ★, Conspiracy 24.6% ★, Investigation 17.6%, Story Rich 7.6%, Visual Novel 5%
Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!
Why similar: Hacking 44% ★, Dystopian 19%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Story Rich 8.5%
In 2070’s Novacore, humanoid robots go rogue—play operative Brian as he infiltrates floating island Enigma to disable control nodes and confront a rogue AI.
Why similar: Hacking 38.3% ★, Conspiracy 24.3% ★, Dystopian 16.3%, Sci-fi 11%, Story Rich 5.2%
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.
Why similar: Hacking 56.1% ★, Dystopian 19.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Story Rich 7.5%, Visual Novel 3.9%
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Why similar: Hacking 43.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Investigation 17.9%, Conspiracy 12.8% ★, Story Rich 5.3%
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 90.2% ★, Dystopian 3.7%, Sci-fi 2.3%, Story Rich 2%, Atmospheric 1%
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 36.2% ★, Investigation 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Dystopian 12.6%, Story Rich 7.1%
A prequel set in the SYS.POST-FUTURE universe: a cyberpunk interface simulation where your decisions permanently shape the main game. As a covert operations director, dispatch agents, manage cyber defenses, and write the official canon through community-driven choices.
Why similar: Investigation 23.5%, Hacking 15.6% ★, Dystopian 13.1%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Conspiracy 11.6% ★
Ocean City Killer is an open-world corporate dungeon crawler. You play as Rick Atlanta, a private eye investigating the death of a former colleague. What starts out as a routine case pulls you into the dark labyrinth of a seedy megacorp. Hop in your muscle car to explore the city!
Why similar: Hacking 28.4% ★, Conspiracy 22.6% ★, Alternate History 16%, Investigation 14.3%, 1980s 11.2%
Compu-Tron x3000 presents an alternate history and a short narrative mystery to be uncovered. Presented as a re-creation of a 1982 digital and educational assistant, delve into the records to uncover the mystery behind C. Tech Industries and Compu-Tron x3000.
Why similar: Alternate History 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Conspiracy 15.9% ★, Investigation 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Play as Quei-li the Labrador Retriever, a hacker dog! Uncover the secrets of the Allocated Reality Institute as an undercover hacker, in this mystery story full of twists and turns.
Why similar: Hacking 44.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Story Rich 7.8%
Decypher strange computers, unravel modified tape players, and unlock impossible doors. Point and click your way around a mysterious basement in this challenging escape room game! Can you uncover what secrets are hiding in the dark when even time and space are against you?
Why similar: Hacking 40.1% ★, Conspiracy 19% ★, Alternate History 14%, Dystopian 11.2%, 1980s 9.7%
In "Omnisight" you decide what people will believe. Theories, relationships with colleagues, and secrets are just tools at your disposal. You change reality and transform yourself along with it. But are you ready to accept the consequences?
Why similar: Conspiracy 27.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Dystopian 13.8%, Story Rich 11.9%
Netghost is a Crime Drama visual novel with a mystery-driven story full of intrigue, twists and turns. The story follows Ian Newfield, a cyber security engineer who transforms into a cold-blooded criminal in his struggle to protect the company he works for and aid his ailing sister.
Why similar: Hacking 37.5% ★, Conspiracy 19.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Investigation 9.7%
Backtrace is a yuri mystery and puzzle game set inside a retro computer. Log on night after night to uncover a story of internet exploits and unexpected friendships with a crew of 80s hackers. Solve 2D grid-based puzzles to piece together the mystery.
Why similar: Hacking 45.9% ★, Visual Novel 12.5%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Story Rich 7.2%, Alternate History 6.2%
A point-and-click adventure about paranoia and loneliness, the evils of capitalism and too much web surfing, the material world and the occult universe. Your typical postmodern blues.
Why similar: Hacking 32.6% ★, Conspiracy 30.9% ★, Story Rich 9.3%, 1980s 7.1%, Retro 5.9%
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 45.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Investigation 12.3%, Story Rich 7.4%, Sci-fi 6.3%
RSSU - Retro Style Soviet Undies is an adult visual novel with a unique story, made in pinup style and filled with humor, sex and romance. Go back to the 80s, meet beautiful Soviet women and discover the exciting mystery of the town of Maryino.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Investigation 18.3%, 1980s 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Sci-fi 11.3%
Step into the shoes of a researcher in the depths of the antarctic and uncover the mysteries behind Project Hailstorm.
Why similar: Alternate History 24.5%, Conspiracy 22.3% ★, Investigation 17.4%, 1980s 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.8%
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 50.3% ★, Conspiracy 18.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Investigation 7.5%, Text-Based 5%
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Story Rich 8.6%
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Why similar: Hacking 49.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Investigation 14.3%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Atmospheric 4.6%
Sector 92 mixes boxing matches, infiltration and investigations in a closed but fully explorable dystopian world. Finding the humanoid intruder among the 27 residents will depend on the player's reputation and investigations.
Why similar: Hacking 30% ★, Conspiracy 24.1% ★, Investigation 17.5%, Dystopian 15.4%, Sci-fi 8.4%
Solipsistic is a free psychological horror game. Manipulate the game's files. The game knows you're there. The people inside it know it too.
Why similar: Hacking 39% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Investigation 16.5%, Story Rich 11.4%, Atmospheric 5.7%
A sci-fi visual novel reimagining The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). Follow Vornovians Sherr-Lok & Watt-Sun as they try to uncover the truth of the "curse"
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Alternate History 16.3%, Investigation 13.1%, Sci-fi 9.2%
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 63.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 8.8%, Story Rich 4.3%, Adventure 3.6%
《失欲》是一部基於帝國主義時期歐洲的短篇反烏托邦小說,它通過多線敘事,描繪了奧盧格帝國從資本主義逐漸過渡到半奴役制度的過程,呼籲人們反資本、反戰、反封建。 The English version is still being translated and produced.
Why similar: Conspiracy 29% ★, Dystopian 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Alternate History 11.8%
You find an old computer with a forgotten program installed: Phantom Strike. A single server is still online, frozen in time and waiting for someone to finish the match. What begins as nostalgic curiosity becomes a descent into something far stranger.
Why similar: Hacking 45.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Investigation 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Retro 5.8%
A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Why similar: Hacking 39.4% ★, Investigation 18.1%, Alternate History 17.5%, Dystopian 10.2%, Story Rich 6.6%
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
Why similar: Conspiracy 25.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Investigation 14%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Sci-fi 12.1%
A mystery-driven game where you manipulate the world by tweaking the game itself. Change parameters, shape the environment, and trigger strange events. But what are you really configuring? As the mystery unfolds, you begin to wonder who's really in control.
Why similar: Hacking 45% ★, Conspiracy 19.9% ★, Dystopian 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 6%, Story Rich 6%
Dreambreak is a story-driven adventure set in an alternative post-Cold War world, a quirky and unique mix of clashing gameplay genres. Get fingered for murder in without actually going there!
Why similar: Conspiracy 21% ★, Dystopian 17.2%, Alternate History 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Investigation 13.3%
Void Observation is a suspense-thriller set in a remote Soviet facility. Manage unstable systems, solve puzzles, operate machinery, and uncover buried secrets as you face a growing, otherworldly phenomenon. Unravel a reality-altering truth—can you survive the unknown and escape?
Why similar: Hacking 36.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, 1980s 15.6%, Investigation 14.5%, Sci-fi 4.2%
You are at the nexus of the events of 2020; you will hire agents, run political ads, research topics, use hacking, and more in this turn-based political strategy game. In Electioneering, your goal is to ensure your candidate becomes the next President of the United States.
Why similar: Hacking 34.1% ★, Conspiracy 25.4% ★, Alternate History 20.6%, Dystopian 19.5%, Indie 0.4%
Your brother is gone. He left behind a USB stick with an unknown system and an AI that teaches you to hack. Break into networks, uncover who he really was, and question everything you find. A terminal-based hacking thriller set in 2036.
Why similar: Hacking 57.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Story Rich 9.5%, Atmospheric 2.4%
A spy thriller where you’re not the spy. Safe behind your screen, guide the last survivor of an elite black-ops team in a desperate attempt to salvage a mission gone horribly wrong. Caught between military command and your agent, information is your greatest weapon.
Why similar: Alternate History 24.9%, Conspiracy 18.1% ★, Visual Novel 15.1%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Dystopian 10%
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Conspiracy 27.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Dystopian 17.8%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Story Rich 7.6%
Discover a surreal Venice in this gripping point-and-click-novel-adventure game. Solve a variety of puzzles and chat with quirky characters to uncover the mystery surrounding the Stucky family. Find out what it means to be human!
Why similar: Hacking 40.1% ★, Conspiracy 27.7% ★, Alternate History 18.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Adventure 1.9%
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 48.4% ★, Conspiracy 18.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Sci-fi 10%, Story Rich 5.6%
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Conspiracy 24.6% ★, Investigation 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Dystopian 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%
"If Fusion Were That Easy" is a humorous 2.5D point-and-click adventure about cold fusion and preventing the apocalypse. Explore a diverse world, master tricky puzzles and stop the inevitable.
Why similar: Conspiracy 23.5% ★, Dystopian 17.5%, Investigation 17.4%, Alternate History 15.8%, Sci-fi 9.3%
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Why similar: Investigation 23.4%, Dystopian 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Conspiracy 13.7% ★, Story Rich 6.6%
『꿈을 빼앗긴 남자 - 드림 인베이더』는 노벨 게임에 논리 퍼즐이 혼합된 게임입니다.
Why similar: Hacking 38.7% ★, Visual Novel 19.5%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Story Rich 12%, Text-Based 9.7%
Sequel of Old Watch
Why similar: Conspiracy 32.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Story Rich 6.7%
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 46.7% ★, Investigation 21.8%, Dystopian 17.2%, Story Rich 8.8%, Atmospheric 4.7%
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 ...
The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.3% ★, Dystopian 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 10%, Story Rich 9.3%
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
Why similar: Conspiracy 35.7% ★, Investigation 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Story Rich 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
A modern-day narrative mystery where you explore a seemingly ordinary laptop to uncover hidden layers of conspiracy, surveillance, and stolen data, blending investigative gameplay with branching choices and a grounded tech-thriller tone.
Why similar: Hacking 31.7% ★, Conspiracy 26.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Investigation 13.1%, Dystopian 8.6%
NEWS CENSOR: edit headlines, replace words, and approve only the “safe” stories. But remember: one wrong word can end your career.
Why similar: Conspiracy 28.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dystopian 14%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Alternate History 11.1%
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Why similar: Hacking 47.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Dystopian 12.8%, Story Rich 6.1%, Atmospheric 4.9%
Cybermere is a sci-fi hacking game. Use warez to penetrate ICE, mine for password fragments and break into database of various companies. You play as Lance, a novice hacker in 2033.
Why similar: Hacking 60.7% ★, Conspiracy 21.4% ★, Sci-fi 15%, Multiple Endings 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%