
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.

HACKING INTO EREBUS
Hacking Into Erebus is a terminal-based sci-fi hacking game where you remotely hack systems, manipulate the crew and uncover their secrets. Use every tool to your advantage. Extract what you need, complete the missions and uncover what’s in the Compartment Zero. Will you succeed ?
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 22.2% ★, Programming 15.7% ★, Investigation 11.2%, 1990's 10.7%, Psychological Horror 8.6%
Hacking Into Erebus is a terminal-based sci-fi hacking game where you remotely hack systems, manipulate the crew and uncover their secrets. Use every tool to your advantage. Extract what you need, complete the missions and uncover what’s in the Compartment Zero. Will you succeed ?
Why similar: Hacking 31.4% ★, Programming 24.1% ★, Typing 23.3% ★, Thriller 9.4%, Mystery 4.9%
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Why similar: Hacking 29.7% ★, Typing 23.8% ★, Thriller 13.5%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Investigation 9.2%
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 29.2% ★, Programming 24.3% ★, Typing 24% ★, Investigation 10.3%, Mystery 5.5%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 39.4% ★, Programming 30.7% ★, Typing 29.8% ★
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 32.3% ★, Typing 24.9% ★, Programming 15.9% ★, Immersive Sim 8.5%, Investigation 8.3%
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 18.9%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Alternate History 15%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 10.6%
Survive the night in an insane asylum where the patients have taken over. Kill, hide, sneak, think, inject, blast, and whack your way through this survival horror action adventure immersive sim inspired by System Shock and classic survival horror games.
Why similar: Cold War 24.7% ★, Hacking 21.1% ★, Alternate History 14%, Investigation 9.7%, 1990's 9.1%
A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a maze-like alleyway, using your camera to distinguish between supernatural "Ghost Traces" and deceptive "Ghost Feints" while escaping the relentless pursuit of a vengeful ghost.
Why similar: Thriller 16.8%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 10.2%, Investigation 8.9%
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 34.4% ★, Typing 25.8% ★, Mystery 7.3%, Immersive Sim 7.1%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 32.8% ★, Investigation 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Thriller 10.9%, Horror 8.3%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 36.8% ★, Hacking 28.6% ★, Typing 21.9% ★, Puzzle 6.5%, Mystery 6.2%
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts. 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. Better code = better hacker.
Why similar: Hacking 33.8% ★, Programming 27.5% ★, Typing 26.6% ★, Mystery 3.9%, Story Rich 3.6%
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 27.8% ★, Thriller 15.1%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Investigation 10.8%, Horror 8.8%
CONNECTION ESTABLISHED...LOGIN TO 137 NEURAL FRAME DETECTED...CREDENTIALS APPROVED...WELCOME USER
Why similar: Hacking 27.5% ★, Programming 26% ★, Typing 22.2% ★, Psychological Horror 6.8%, Survival Horror 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 30.4% ★, Typing 28.8% ★, Programming 27% ★, Investigation 9.1%, Atmospheric 3.4%
Experience hacking and uncover hidden secrets. Type commands to decode messages, navigate systems, and gain remote access to devices.
Why similar: Hacking 29.3% ★, Programming 25.3% ★, Typing 18.7% ★, Investigation 12.1%, Immersive Sim 5.8%
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 34.6% ★, Typing 29.5% ★, Programming 16% ★, Immersive Sim 8.4%, Puzzle 6.1%
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 26.8% ★, Programming 22.5% ★, Hacking 22% ★, Investigation 12.9%, Puzzle 5.1%
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: Thriller 16%, Investigation 14.4%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
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 14.5%, Horror 11.6%, Mystery 11.3%
After losing his family to the killer he seeks to unmask, Detective Jack Whiting is kidnapped and locked in a basement of harrowing puzzles, soul-crushing decisions, and hellish sacrifices. Survival comes at a great cost, but before you can survive, you have to truly open your eyes.
Why similar: Cold War 33.3% ★, Alternate History 20.8%, Investigation 10.9%, Puzzle 6.7%, Horror 6.4%
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 17.7%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Horror 10.5%, Mystery 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 50.6% ★, Typing 22.4% ★, Programming 19.1% ★, Puzzle 4.8%, Story Rich 3.1%
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 16.9%, Survival Horror 16.4%, 1990's 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Horror 10.3%
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 33% ★, Typing 20.9% ★, Programming 17.4% ★, Investigation 9.4%, Immersive Sim 7.1%
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%
Navigate through your nightmares in this immersive first-person horror game. Explore a mysterious abandoned apartment building and unlock four unique interconnected short stories and piece together the puzzles to escape your nightmare.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.4%, Horror 16.2%, Thriller 15.1%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Immersive Sim 9.8%
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 29.8% ★, Typing 29.6% ★, Puzzle 5.3%
A story-rich hacking simulation set inside a full Linux desktop environment. Use real terminal commands, crack passwords, intercept traffic, and expose a secret autonomous AI program.. before it exposes you.
Why similar: Hacking 38.4% ★, Programming 30.1% ★, Typing 23.7% ★, Puzzle 5.6%, Story Rich 2.2%
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 40.3% ★, Hacking 25.8% ★, Cold War 18.2% ★, Alternate History 8.5%, Puzzle 7.2%
The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.
Why similar: Thriller 20.1%, Survival Horror 18.4%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 13.3%, Mystery 11.8%
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 41.7% ★, Survival Horror 17.4%, Horror 9.8%, Psychological Horror 7.3%, 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 16.5%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Investigation 10.3%
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 9.3%
Investigate a murder at a lake where something else is watching you. Explore, survive… and uncover the truth before it’s too late.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.1%, Thriller 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Investigation 12%, Horror 9.2%
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 13.1%, Horror 10.4%, Mystery 10.4%
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 29.8% ★, Programming 25.7% ★, Typing 25.3% ★, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Story Rich 4%
Nights in Endless Dream is another psychological anomaly game that focuses on the story of our main character and 2D aesthetics. Memorize the rooms and find the anomalies to escape the dream.
Why similar: Investigation 18%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Mystery 13%, Thriller 10.3%, Immersive Sim 9.2%
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 12.7%, Investigation 12.1%, Horror 10.4%
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 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Female Protagonist 13%, Investigation 13%, Horror 11.8%
Beneath the Frost is a short, single-player, psychological horror game set on a frozen, desolate planet. You take on the role of the sole survivor of a spacecraft crash, using a robot companion to gather parts for an SOS device while uncovering an eerie mystery that suggests they may not be alone.
Why similar: Investigation 20.7%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Immersive Sim 13.9%, Mystery 11.8%, Horror 8.7%
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
Why similar: Hacking 35.9% ★, Programming 28.9% ★, Typing 8.9% ★, Female Protagonist 7.3%, Immersive Sim 6.8%
Play as the Final Girl to outsmart a relentless killer in this PSX style game, inspired by 90s survival horror classics and 80s slasher films. A throwback to the days of crunchy lo-fi visuals, fixed camera angles, tense hiding mechanics, and a variety of puzzles.
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Thriller 11.4%, 1990's 10.2%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure. Unlock hidden files, solve text-based puzzles, and piece together a fragmented AI as you uncover the truth behind a failed salvation and a buried past in this cold, atmospheric mystery.
Why similar: Typing 32.5% ★, Hacking 28.1% ★, Investigation 12.8%, Female Protagonist 6.8%, Puzzle 6%
A short 90s bureaucratic horror game where you process impossible tax forms for the living, the dead, and the unborn.
Why similar: Typing 36.6% ★, Thriller 15.2%, 1990's 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Mystery 8%
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 40.9% ★, Alternate History 24.5%, Hacking 11.6% ★, 1990's 9.6%, Puzzle 9.5%
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
Why similar: Typing 27.8% ★, Hacking 27.4% ★, Programming 25.2% ★, Horror 6.9%, Exploration 5.2%
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 31.2% ★, Alternate History 17.6%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Immersive Sim 8.7%
90s-style Japanese survival horror about a cursed deep-web marketplace. RedLantern posts manifest in your room. Hack targets, trace shipments, upgrade your rig, and survive home invaders as you file reports to your boss.
Why similar: Hacking 29.3% ★, Investigation 12.9%, Survival Horror 12.1%, 1990's 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
Trapped in the depths of a frozen Soviet bunker, geophysicist Anna must survive deadly cold, horrifying abominations, and the trauma of a buried past. A third-person survival horror blending psychological storytelling with hand-drawn static cameras.
Why similar: Cold War 39.8% ★, Survival Horror 16%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Female Protagonist 8.4%, Horror 8%
Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.
Why similar: Hacking 36.3% ★, Typing 31.3% ★, Programming 16.8% ★, Investigation 5.5%, Story Rich 5.3%
On Tape << Rewind is a psychological horror story told through cassette tapes. Play recordings, search for clues, discover hidden cassettes, and manipulate audio. Unravel the mystery of a scientist’s disappearance and the obsession that consumed him — tape by tape.
Why similar: Cold War 22.3% ★, Investigation 17.6%, Thriller 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Mystery 10.9%
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 31% ★, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Horror 13%, 1990's 12.4%, Mystery 11.6%
The Last Shift is a first-person adventure horror game. At midnight, demons roam the amusement park while you are alone on the night shift in the security booth. Collect clues, solve puzzles, face your enemies, and strive to survive the night!
Why similar: Horror 18.6%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Thriller 15.5%, Investigation 12.6%
Congratulations! You have been selected to become a parser at MERCURIALCORP! Please follow all safety protocols when communicating with the entity. Keep the vault door closed. Translate messages efficiently, and know that you are being watched. A short morse code focused survival horror experience.
Why similar: Typing 27.9% ★, Survival Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 14.1%, 1990's 7%
A podcast simulator horror game with cozy vibes. Become a podcast editor, repair audio files, and find the hosts of the podcast Spooky Sacramento before the hard drive dies!
Why similar: Hacking 36.2% ★, Alternate History 15.2%, Investigation 14.4%, Historical 10%, Exploration 7.5%
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 36.2% ★, Hacking 19.1% ★, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Programming 12.1% ★, Puzzle 8.2%
When the research team from the classified Soviet organization known as O.D.I.S.E.A. went radio silent during an expedition deep beneath the Earth, you - a simple mechanic - were called upon to pilot an old prototype submarine and search for any trace of what happened and where they might have gone.
Why similar: Cold War 29.1% ★, Alternate History 17.1%, Investigation 11.7%, Mystery 8.7%, Immersive Sim 8.7%