
A terminal-driven psychological horror puzzle set in a secret Soviet underground research facility built after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Survive in procedurally shifting sectors using only the terminal. Type ‘help’ to begin.
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A terminal-driven psychological horror puzzle set in a secret Soviet underground research facility built after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Survive in procedurally shifting sectors using only the terminal. Type ‘help’ to begin.

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After upgrading to a new Operating System, uncover the mystery behind this cursed piece of software. Keen eyed users must take a careful note of their surroundings if they want to survive.

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?
After upgrading to a new Operating System, uncover the mystery behind this cursed piece of software. Keen eyed users must take a careful note of their surroundings if they want to survive.
Why similar: Hacking 21.9% ★, Programming 16.6% ★, Investigation 11.1%, 1990's 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.6%
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: Programming 25% ★, Hacking 24.2% ★, Coding 22.1% ★, Typing 20.7% ★, Puzzle 4.2%
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: Coding 34.3% ★, Programming 27.6% ★, Hacking 27.3% ★, Exploration 5.5%, Puzzle 5.4%
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: Coding 33.6% ★, Hacking 20.1% ★, Programming 19.2% ★, Typing 16% ★, Mystery 4.9%
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: Coding 43.3% ★, Programming 24.1% ★, Hacking 23% ★, Female Protagonist 4.8%, Puzzle 4.4%
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Why similar: Hacking 29.4% ★, Typing 24% ★, Thriller 13.6%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Investigation 9.2%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 38.5% ★, Programming 32.2% ★, Typing 29.3% ★
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: Coding 26.5% ★, Hacking 24.2% ★, Typing 20.3% ★, Programming 16.7% ★, Investigation 6.6%
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 29.6% ★, Programming 26.4% ★, Typing 24.5% ★, Investigation 10.5%, Mystery 5.6%
Lambda Enigma is a unique and progressively difficult mechanical coding puzzle game that requires intelligence, rather than dexterity.
Why similar: Coding 42.7% ★, Programming 27% ★, Typing 20.4% ★, Puzzle 5.9%, Mystery 4%
Narin: The Orange Room is a third-person adventure horror game. Play as Narin, a young girl whose sister mysteriously disappeared. Help her find her sister in the twilight dimension, solve the mystery, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Narration 13.9%, Thriller 13.8%, Investigation 12.4%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
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: Coding 36.3% ★, Programming 21.5% ★, Hacking 21% ★, Typing 18% ★, Puzzle 3.1%
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!
Why similar: Coding 36.5% ★, Programming 31.8% ★, Hacking 17.4% ★, Typing 10.2% ★, Puzzle 4.2%
The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.
Why similar: Hacking 27.6% ★, Coding 25.2% ★, Typing 24.7% ★, Programming 20.3% ★, Atmospheric 2.2%
Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.
Why similar: Coding 46.8% ★, Programming 26.3% ★, Hacking 24.1% ★, Puzzle 2.8%
An immersive horror-adventure game. Betrayed by a trusted friend, Baxter finds himself trapped in an abandoned gold mine. Set traps, gather creature samples, and make life-or-death decisions to survive. Can you face the horrors lurking in the darkness of the night?
Why similar: Thriller 19%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Alternate History 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 10.5%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 38.4% ★, Hacking 27.8% ★, Typing 21.5% ★, Puzzle 6.3%, Mystery 6%
Type to guess the words used to create machine-made artworks, while slowly uncovering the algorithm's reflections on its own work. Come investigate more than 1,500 generated artworks across 7 carefully curated galleries.
Why similar: Typing 26.5% ★, Programming 23.6% ★, Hacking 21.6% ★, Investigation 12.7%, Mystery 5%
CONNECTION ESTABLISHED...LOGIN TO 137 NEURAL FRAME DETECTED...CREDENTIALS APPROVED...WELCOME USER
Why similar: Programming 27.3% ★, Hacking 26.9% ★, Typing 21.9% ★, Psychological Horror 6.7%, Survival Horror 6.1%
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 29.7% ★, Typing 28.4% ★, Programming 28.3% ★, Investigation 8.9%, Atmospheric 3.3%
CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms. Your brain power determines your firepower across 190+ programming nodes. Debug your failures. Optimize your code. Complete the heist. HACK THE PLANET!
Why similar: Coding 49.2% ★, Programming 28.4% ★, Hacking 22.4% ★
Finish Report is a short science fiction horror game. All communications have been lost to a space station far in deep space. You as a one-man investigation unit has been sent to find out why did the station go silent.
Why similar: Typing 32.9% ★, Investigation 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Thriller 10.9%, Horror 8.3%
The Backrooms Origins is a first person exploration and psychological horror game about famous creepypasta the backrooms. Explore levels of backrooms and try to keep your sanity.
Why similar: Cold War 27.7% ★, Thriller 15.2%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Investigation 10.8%, Horror 8.7%
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 34.8% ★, Typing 27% ★, Programming 18.3% ★, Investigation 8.9%, Puzzle 5.5%
Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present.
Why similar: Survival Horror 14.7%, Thriller 14.2%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Narration 11.1%, Horror 9.6%
Monitor the city from your window. Identify anomalies, capture proof, and file reports before Exposure spikes. Miss too much, and what you’re watching starts watching back.
Why similar: Investigation 17.5%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Thriller 14.6%, Horror 11.6%, Mystery 11.3%
Dinner With Strangers is a fixed camera style "escape room" game where you have to find a way out of the House of Modesty. You wake up not knowing who you are and why you are there to find everyone in the house dead.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.4%, Thriller 17.8%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Horror 10.5%, Mystery 10.2%
EFHD is a game where programs change how game works. Modify and run the source files to create, destroy and move other objects.
Why similar: Coding 50.5% ★, Programming 25.4% ★, Hacking 21.3% ★, Puzzle 2.8%
Unfinished horror games by missing developers. A diary written from inside the code. Fragments that decay in real time. Your keyboard is a weapon. Hesitation is deadly.
Why similar: Typing 28.2% ★, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 11.8%, 1990's 11.3%, Mystery 10.5%
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 49.5% ★, Typing 22.6% ★, Programming 20.4% ★, Puzzle 4.6%, Story Rich 2.9%
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 42% ★, Hacking 25.1% ★, Cold War 17.8% ★, Alternate History 8.2%, Puzzle 7%
Abandon hope and delve into the core of an old nuclear power plant in this psychological survival horror experience. Trust your map and radiation detector to navigate the irradiated plant... And be forced to discover the monstrous cause of its sudden reawakening.
Why similar: Alternate History 17.7%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Narration 12.1%, Mystery 9.9%
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 34.4% ★, Programming 31.3% ★, Typing 29.2% ★, Puzzle 5.1%
An immersive indie hacking simulation game. Help the Project Daybreak team expose a secret government program.
Why similar: Hacking 37.6% ★, Programming 31.5% ★, Typing 23.3% ★, Puzzle 5.4%, Story Rich 2.2%
Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.
Why similar: Thriller 19.6%, Survival Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 13%, 1990's 10.8%, Horror 10.6%
Learn programming in a fun way! An educational game that teaches the basics of programming and algorithmic logic. No prior knowledge of programming is required to play.
Why similar: Coding 48.8% ★, Programming 25% ★, Hacking 21.4% ★, Puzzle 4.8%
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 38.3% ★, Programming 28.6% ★, Narration 12.5%, Historical 7.1%, Horror 5.5%
Remote-control human proxies to explore a derelict spaceship. Type your commands, manage risk and decide how disposable a life really is.
Why similar: Typing 27.3% ★, Thriller 16.3%, Investigation 14.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 8.3%
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
Why similar: Coding 36.9% ★, Programming 26.3% ★, Hacking 25.2% ★, Psychological Horror 6.8%, Puzzle 4.8%
Sound is your only hope for survival in this first-person psychological horror game. Investigate the mysteries of an apartment block in 1960s America terrorized by a cosmic horror, as you try to save your lost mentor… and yourself.
Why similar: Investigation 15.4%, Alternate History 14.6%, Narration 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Thriller 11.2%
Welcome to one of the scariest old-school horror games. Here, you're not the predator, but the prey. Any mistake will cost you your life. Hide, solve puzzles, explore, and embrace the inevitable terror. The Ancient horror lurks, awaiting you. Based on true events.
Why similar: Investigation 17.2%, Survival Horror 16.6%, 1990's 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 10.5%
A skilled hacker has unleashed a powerful trojan. What will happen to the computers it infects? Help Vundo navigate through Malware City, a 2D platformer inspired by the dawn of personal computers. Infect as many systems as you can and become the most feared trojan to ever exist.
Why similar: Coding 48.9% ★, Hacking 28.5% ★, Programming 18.6% ★, Exploration 4.1%
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 27.9% ★, Mystery 7.9%, Puzzle 6.7%, Horror 5.4%
Explore an abandoned and decaying village in this immersive first-person psychological horror experience, search forgotten houses and shadowed paths, piece together disturbing clues, and uncover the truth that waits within the suffocating darkness.
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Thriller 17.5%, Narration 11.4%, Horror 11.1%
Lost Stories is an episodic psychological horror game set in the Siberian forests during the Cold War. Explore isolated locations, uncover censored experiments, and survive what was never meant to be found. Some stories were not forgotten. They were hidden.
Why similar: Cold War 41.8% ★, Survival Horror 17.3%, Horror 9.8%, Psychological Horror 7.4%, Puzzle 5.6%
Inspired by "The Russian Sleep Experiment," this co-op multiplayer horror game challenges players to collect crucial evidence from past experiments. Work together to control the gas, evade the roaming monster, and uncover the terrifying truth.
Why similar: Cold War 22.7% ★, Thriller 16.6%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Investigation 10.3%
At 3:12 AM, someone knocked. The door was locked from the inside. A story-rich psychological horror where you explore and investigate a Kolkata home as reality begins to repeat, change, and remember.
Why similar: Investigation 17.3%, Thriller 14.6%, Narration 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Mystery 8.2%
Explore the erased cold war era Soviet town of Novokirsk, where fear became alive. Uncover the truth behind Project Zvezda and the entity Nyog’vran in this atmospheric, narrative-driven psychological horror with no combat, only sound, light, and your sanity.
Why similar: Cold War 29.8% ★, Alternate History 16.7%, Narration 13%, Survival Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 9%
Program a robot to solve logic puzzles in ChipWits, an open-ended programming game for beginners and experts alike! Inspired by the 1980s original, ChipWits combines the best of puzzle games, automation, and programming to introduce a new generation of players to a classic gaming experience.
Why similar: Coding 43.7% ★, Programming 33% ★, Hacking 17.9% ★, Puzzle 5.4%
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 42.7% ★, Alternate History 23.8%, Hacking 11.3% ★, 1990's 9.4%, Puzzle 9.2%
In Fear I Trust is a critically acclaimed first-person horror adventure. Explore eerie locations, solve puzzles and unravel the dark truth behind a secret soviet experiment in this story-driven psychological thriller.
Why similar: Cold War 26.5% ★, Thriller 18%, Investigation 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 9.2%
Find the violent stalker hiding inside an abandoned school. Piece together broken lore and solve a long lost mystery. What happened here and who's to blame?
Why similar: Thriller 15.8%, Investigation 12.2%, Narration 11.2%, 1990's 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
You started a neighborhood security program, which gradually expanded in size. Over time, it evolved to monitor not only homes but also warehouses, gas stations and various other locations. However, as your program grew, it began attracting the attention of dubious individuals.
Why similar: Hacking 42.8% ★, Investigation 16.1%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Mystery 10.5%, Horror 10.4%
Dragged into her own mind, a fashion obsessed high-schooler must escape a twisted version of her rural hometown. She explores empty streets and abandoned buildings as a mysterious light in the distant forest watches over her. A horror game about perfectionism.
Why similar: Narration 22.5%, Survival Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, 1990's 15.3%, Horror 10.2%
You play as a student named Lisa, who has just moved in with her university friend. But instead of a carefree student life, Lisa faces events full of despair and fear when she is left alone in her apartment number 8...
Why similar: Thriller 17.5%, Narration 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Investigation 10.4%, Horror 9.6%
A first-person atmospheric horror-puzzle game that focuses on the narrative to tie together the gruesome world with creative puzzles. Explore the mind of a twisted serial killer who wants nothing else than to show his work of art as well as tell his story to the world.
Why similar: Narration 21.1%, Thriller 18.7%, Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Puzzle 9.4%
Join Sebastian Harrington, an archeology student, on a quest to find his missing professor. Explore ancient temple ruins, solve puzzles, and uncover hidden secrets in the Temple of Shadows.
Why similar: Survival Horror 15.7%, Historical 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Investigation 12.1%, Horror 10.4%
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
Why similar: Typing 27.5% ★, Hacking 26.9% ★, Programming 26.3% ★, Horror 6.8%, Exploration 5.2%
BrokenLore: LOW is a psychological horror game set in a mist-covered, beautiful Japanese village, blending hyper-realistic graphics with low-poly elements. The main enemy is the Gashadokuro, a yokai from Japanese folklore.
Why similar: Thriller 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15%, Investigation 13%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Horror 11.8%