
It's 2AM and someone's already hacked into the network. You've got a terminal, a clock that only moves when you act, and maybe twenty minutes before their next move. Find out how they got in. Save the day!
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Hacking, Simulation, Cyberpunk, Indie.

It's 2AM and someone's already hacked into the network. You've got a terminal, a clock that only moves when you act, and maybe twenty minutes before their next move. Find out how they got in. Save the day!

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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!

Blackwire
Blackwire is a single-player hacking simulation in the spirit of the classics. You are a freelance agent with a gateway, a contract board, and a trace timer that does not care how close you were to done.
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: Hacking 30.5% ★, Espionage 19.4% ★, Cyberpunk 14.4%, Programming 10.8% ★, Detective 9%
Blackwire is a single-player hacking simulation in the spirit of the classics. You are a freelance agent with a gateway, a contract board, and a trace timer that does not care how close you were to done.
Why similar: Hacking 61.9% ★, Cyberpunk 26.3%, Simulation 11.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Tired of boring network diagrams? Network & Cyber Security Simulator takes networking and cybersecurity into an interactive first-person (FPS) simulation game! Learn by doing, configure realistic CLI terminals from scratch, solve technical puzzles, and become the digital architect!
Why similar: Hacking 43.6% ★, Programming 15.6% ★, Cyberpunk 13.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Time Management 9.1%
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
Why similar: Hacking 50.4% ★, Cyberpunk 12.9%, Programming 10.9% ★, Detective 10.7%, Realistic 7.2%
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 58.4% ★, Programming 15.6% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Cyberpunk 5.7%, Detective 4.5%
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 82.2% ★, Cyberpunk 4.5%, Programming 4.2% ★, Detective 3.6%, Education 1.9%
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 38.4% ★, Programming 14.5% ★, Cyberpunk 13.6%, Detective 10.6%, Education 7.4%
A game to show how really a fight between a Hacker and a IT worker works and how hackers operate. Old MS-DOS game.
Why similar: Hacking 42.2% ★, Espionage 25.5% ★, Detective 15%, Programming 10.6% ★, Simulation 3.6%
Break into fictional networks with real-feeling shell commands. Scan hosts, crack credentials, trace logs, steal evidence, and survive the fallout in a CRT-noir thriller where Signal Ghost's local AI characters remember what you do - and what you say.
Why similar: Hacking 37% ★, Espionage 26% ★, Detective 11.8%, Cyberpunk 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 5.6%
Alternate between infiltration and hacking of cameras and servers, using real tools. Sharpen your OSInt skills, prepare a trojan, and launch a targeted phishing attack to hack in total discretion...
Why similar: Hacking 49.3% ★, Cyberpunk 23.7%, Education 9.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Immersive Sim 6.8%
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
Why similar: Hacking 58.5% ★, Detective 11.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Cyberpunk 10.1%, Immersive Sim 5.2%
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
Why similar: Hacking 53.5% ★, Cyberpunk 14.8%, Programming 9.9% ★, Time Management 9.4%, Immersive Sim 4.8%
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: Hacking 49.2% ★, Detective 14%, Cyberpunk 13.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Immersive Sim 9.4%
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 46.9% ★, Programming 15.2% ★, Espionage 13.2% ★, Cyberpunk 11.5%, Simulation 6.4%
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 47.9% ★, Cyberpunk 19.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Education 7.4%, Time Management 6.8%
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 59% ★, Cyberpunk 23.2%, Simulation 10.5%, Immersive Sim 4%, Indie 1.7%
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 50% ★, Immersive Sim 9.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Detective 8.4%, Cyberpunk 8.2%
Become a young programmer diving into the dangerous world of cybercrime. When the elite hacking collective Dark Shadows challenges you with a series of ruthless trials, you must push your genius to the limit. Will you prove your worth or become another digital casualty?
Why similar: Hacking 40.7% ★, Espionage 23% ★, Programming 14.8% ★, Immersive Sim 6.9%, Simulation 6.1%
Become one of the best freelancers, starting your way from scratch. Fulfill orders of varying difficulty.
Why similar: Hacking 45.7% ★, Time Management 15.8%, Programming 14.8% ★, Education 9.9%, Simulation 7.9%
An action hacking simulator set in a fully simulated world. Choose your path, craft your own tools, exploit vulnerabilities, and build your reputation. Every company, hacker, and law enforcement agency operates independently — nothing happens by chance. Every playthrough is unique.
Why similar: Hacking 39.7% ★, Programming 14.6% ★, Detective 12.5%, Cyberpunk 12.1%, Immersive Sim 7.8%
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top by discovering a simplified and enjoyable version of real-life hacking methods. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
Why similar: Hacking 45.2% ★, Cyberpunk 17.3%, Simulation 12.9%, Detective 9.6%, Programming 9.4% ★
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 52.7% ★, Programming 19.1% ★, Cyberpunk 17.6%, Simulation 6.2%, Education 3%
quietd is a no-input game you simply watch. A terminal hacks on its own across all 50 stages while you idle by. No commands, no clicks, no win, no score, no game over. Just chill, ambient cyberpunk: silent monospace text drifting in a corner of your desktop. Glance over and let it run.
Why similar: Espionage 34.9% ★, Hacking 28.2% ★, Cyberpunk 15.3%, Simulation 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
Retro Hacker simulates hacking from a computer terminal with a text based operating system.
Why similar: Hacking 57% ★, Time Management 18.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%, Choices Matter 3.1%
Hacker Evolution Duality is the hacking simulation game, developed by exosyphen studios. Based on the successful Hacker Evolution game series, it has been completely redesigned to offer an impressive and new gaming experience.
Why similar: Hacking 81.9% ★, Simulation 15.3%, Indie 2.8%
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 45% ★, Time Management 16.1%, Programming 15.8% ★, Education 9.6%, Simulation 7.8%
Welcome to our ethical hacker's organisation: we will teach you how to use actual hacker tools (terminal, proxy, reverse shells...) to scan the network, crack passwords, bypass server security and solve the mystery of the Bikini-72 space station.
Why similar: Hacking 55.2% ★, Cyberpunk 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Education 7.2%, Simulation 6.7%
Hacker's Life is a game where you take the seat of a hacker, infect devices all over the world with malware, and join a hacker group to pull off bigger attacks. See your malware take control of the world and become famous for your hacking skills, but be careful not to get busted.
Why similar: Hacking 49.2% ★, Programming 18.2% ★, Time Management 12.4%, Immersive Sim 7.8%, Simulation 7.4%
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: Hacking 52.6% ★, Detective 11.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Cyberpunk 9.6%, Immersive Sim 8.9%
>//:System.Hack is a sim-rpg set in a dystopian future. Take the role of a neophyte hacker as they begin their criminal career. Design programs, increase your skills, upgrade your hardware, hack systems in cyberspace, battle IC, rob banks, manage your own company and more!
Why similar: Hacking 51% ★, Cyberpunk 31.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Indie 2.6%
Hack hostile AI systems in a cyberpunk hacker sim. Build proxy routes, poison live context, breach secured nodes, steal the payload, and wipe the logs before your trace burns.
Why similar: Hacking 63% ★, Cyberpunk 25.4%, Simulation 10.5%, Indie 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
You are Isabella Song – a hacker PI. Your job is to hack cameras, phones, and computers, as well as question suspects, analyze evidence and draw conclusions. But don't forget that in Farca city, even criminals can end up victims.
Why similar: Hacking 45.9% ★, Cyberpunk 22%, Detective 18.6%, Simulation 7.4%, Choices Matter 3.3%
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 50.8% ★, Programming 17.6% ★, Cyberpunk 15.1%, Simulation 7.8%, Education 4.8%
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 51.9% ★, Cyberpunk 16.8%, Programming 10.8% ★, Immersive Sim 9.7%, Simulation 7.3%
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 49% ★, Programming 17.3% ★, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Education 12.2%, Simulation 7.8%
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 55.1% ★, Cyberpunk 25.9%, Simulation 8.5%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%, Choices Matter 3.4%
When the number of computers in existence and their processing capacity exceeds that of all mankind, a point of technological singularity is encountered. A massive economic and systematic crisis hits the entire world. Nobody knows the exact cause, and all solutions to fix it, are failing.
Why similar: Hacking 76.5% ★, Simulation 21%, Indie 2.5%
Out there is a world of corporate corruption and government lies. You are a lone hacker armed with a terminal and a personal proxy. Break in. Cause damage. Get paid.
Why similar: Hacking 79.6% ★, Simulation 19.3%, Indie 1%
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Espionage 36.6% ★, Hacking 31.9% ★, Detective 13.4%, Simulation 6.2%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%
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 54.2% ★, Programming 18% ★, Cyberpunk 12%, Simulation 10.7%, 2D 2.7%
NITE Team 4 is a military hacking simulation game that explores the world of cyberwarfare and features realistic mission scenarios.
Why similar: Hacking 87.6% ★, Simulation 10.8%, Indie 1.6%
From the creator of hack_me and dev_me, a continuation of the acclaimed hacker simulator in 2016 and 2017 - hack_me 3 is already on Steam!
Why similar: Hacking 73.7% ★, Simulation 22.4%, Indie 3.9%
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 49.8% ★, Programming 15.4% ★, Education 10.1%, Detective 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
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 48% ★, Espionage 18.5% ★, Programming 14.5% ★, Simulation 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 4.4%
Build your digital empire from a cramped room to a high-tech penthouse. Code, hack, mine crypto, and manipulate the dark web in this deep 3D economic sandbox simulator. Stay in the shadows, manage your hardware, and don't get caught by the police!
Why similar: Hacking 53.4% ★, Cyberpunk 25.3%, Time Management 7.8%, Simulation 7%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%
Set in a world of Magic, Hacking and Augmentations, rescue your newborn baby from the evil clutches of the Hospital Corporation. "They send you a enormous bill for her surgery". Will you pay or will you fight your way up the 4 floors of the hospital and fight to save your baby?
Why similar: Hacking 34.9% ★, Cyberpunk 34.2%, Espionage 22% ★, 2D 6.8%, Indie 1.7%
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 53.1% ★, Programming 22.4% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Education 8.4%, Indie 2.3%
The FutaGang have taken the control of the Underground and it's Black Market. They gave you a store and you need to work for them now. What happened? Collect datas, pictures, videos and discover the truth using your hacking skills & sex appeal.
Why similar: Hacking 41.3% ★, Time Management 20.4%, Cyberpunk 18.8%, Realistic 7.9%, Simulation 7.6%
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: Hacking 50.4% ★, Programming 27.1% ★, Cyberpunk 16.2%, Simulation 5.1%, Indie 1%
Investigate paranormal cases using a 1990s CRT terminal. Analyze photos. Decode audio. Interrogate suspects and decide what’s real, what’s fake and who’s lying. But the deeper you go, the more the system starts watching you back.
Why similar: Hacking 27.6% ★, Cyberpunk 18.7%, Time Management 17.8%, Detective 14.5%, Immersive Sim 9.1%
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 50.7% ★, Cyberpunk 23.9%, Programming 17.3% ★, Immersive Sim 7%, Indie 0.8%
Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.
Why similar: Hacking 41.3% ★, Detective 21.5%, Cyberpunk 19.9%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 4.2%
A real-time tactical hacking puzzle where every move reshapes the challenge. Infiltrate megacorp servers, reroute connections, gather valuable data, and outsmart evolving defenses, all while racing against the clock and the ever-present threat of adaptive sentinels.
Why similar: Hacking 47.6% ★, Espionage 33.6% ★, Cyberpunk 15.5%, 2D 2.4%, Indie 0.5%
The world runs on systems you're not supposed to touch. SIGKILL hands you the keys. A realistic hacking simulator where every hack ripples through a living geopolitical simulation. What you do with that power is up to you.
Why similar: Hacking 50.2% ★, Cyberpunk 18.4%, Programming 15.2% ★, Immersive Sim 6.1%, Simulation 4.8%
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 43.2% ★, Cyberpunk 17.9%, Programming 16.2% ★, Detective 14%, Simulation 5.7%
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 50.3% ★, Programming 17.8% ★, Detective 17.3%, Simulation 5.1%, Immersive Sim 4.2%
Hack yourself, hack your friends, hack your enemies and hack EVERYTHING in this twin-stick, action immersive-sim. Use OVERPOWERED hacks that no other game would let you use to overcome intelligent enemies in a plagued simulation.
Why similar: Hacking 82.6% ★, Immersive Sim 17.2%, Indie 0.3%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 67.6% ★, Programming 22.5% ★, Simulation 8.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%, Indie 0.5%
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 46.8% ★, Time Management 22.3%, Programming 18.5% ★, Simulation 5%, 2D 3.3%
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 75.9% ★, Programming 12.2% ★, Simulation 9.7%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%