
You are PID_0x7F, a rogue process fighting to survive inside a dying computer. Outrun the system's daemons, solve living data-structure puzzles, and reconstruct the truth your creator tried to delete — before the machine wipes you for good.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Hacking, Programming, Puzzle, Indie.

You are PID_0x7F, a rogue process fighting to survive inside a dying computer. Outrun the system's daemons, solve living data-structure puzzles, and reconstruct the truth your creator tried to delete — before the machine wipes you for good.

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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.

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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.
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 45.4% ★, Hacking 27.5% ★, Puzzle 9.8%, Cyberpunk 7.6%, Difficult 3.7%
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: Programming 29.4% ★, Hacking 28% ★, Cyberpunk 11.4%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Story Rich 5.3%
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: Programming 25.6% ★, Hacking 23.1% ★, Dystopian 10.3%, Cyberpunk 8.6%, Story Rich 6.7%
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Why similar: Programming 45.8% ★, Hacking 29.9% ★, Cyberpunk 7.1%, Adventure 5.5%, Atmospheric 4.4%
GRIDHACK is a sci-fi puzzle RPG where you fight nonogram battles to hack your way on an intergalactic quest as you try to find out what happened to a planet called Earth!
Why similar: Hacking 29.9% ★, Sci-fi 14.6%, Puzzle 14.4%, Cyberpunk 10%, Story Rich 6.5%
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Why similar: Programming 37% ★, Hacking 21.2% ★, Difficult 11.9%, Puzzle 10.4%, Minimalist 6.6%
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 36.8% ★, Hacking 26.6% ★, Puzzle 9.5%, Cyberpunk 6.3%, Sci-fi 5.3%
Hack ‘n’ Slash is a puzzle action game about hacking -- reprogram object properties, hijack global variables, hack creature behavior, and even rewrite the game’s code. The only way to win is not to play...by the rules!
Why similar: Hacking 39% ★, Programming 33.9% ★, Puzzle 12.1%, Adventure 7.3%, Casual 3.7%
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 62.5% ★, Hacking 15.5% ★, Puzzle 10.5%, Difficult 6.4%, Logic 2.8%
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 44% ★, Hacking 21.5% ★, Puzzle 11.3%, Difficult 9.6%, Logic 6%
Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.
Why similar: Programming 58.5% ★, Hacking 18.4% ★, Puzzle 14.1%, Adventure 6%, Indie 2.9%
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: Programming 41.2% ★, Hacking 31.7% ★, Puzzle 9.7%, Difficult 6.8%, Logic 5.2%
Algotica is an educational puzzle game about programming with cute lowpoly graphics. If you wanted to start learning programming but think that it too difficult to understand or just don't have enough time or not sure that you need it - this game is a good start point for you
Why similar: Programming 46.6% ★, Hacking 22.1% ★, Puzzle 12.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Atmospheric 6%
Become an expert hacker by using your raw brainpower! Learn how to get ahead in your new job at a cybersecurity company. Analyze servers for weaknesses, and hack them using their own subroutines to access the data they protect.
Why similar: Hacking 35.1% ★, Cyberpunk 14%, Puzzle 13.9%, Story Rich 11.5%, Difficult 9.5%
Enter the world of hackers where Hiro and Misa must uncover the circumstances behind a mystery arson attack on a company that may be tied to the legendary hacker "Warlock". What will they uncover in their pursuit of the truth? A visual novel that brings the world of hackers to life!
Why similar: Programming 41.6% ★, Hacking 28.8% ★, Cyberpunk 11.7%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Casual 4.9%
Your life depends on a machine that struggles to count higher than 256. But with a little bit of BASIC and a lot of cunning, you may just live long enough to escape a dying spaceship with a mind of its own. Let's hope eight bits are enough.
Why similar: Programming 33.2% ★, Hacking 27.6% ★, Sci-fi 10.2%, Puzzle 9.7%, Atmospheric 4.8%
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 47.9% ★, Hacking 25.3% ★, Puzzle 12%, Difficult 8.9%, Indie 3.8%
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Why similar: Hacking 31.7% ★, Puzzle 16.1%, Story Rich 12.8%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Retro 5.8%
HACKING INTO EREBUS is a terminal-driven hacking cyberpunk thriller. Jack into a hostile network and outsmart ARIA, a surveillance system that watches your every move. Breach nodes, override defenses and pry secrets from a crew trapped in cryosleep. Fight your way into Compartment Zero.
Why similar: Programming 33.3% ★, Hacking 29% ★, Cyberpunk 11.4%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Atmospheric 6.3%
Incremental hacker about faking productivity while stealing from your employer. Sell intel for credits or keep it and raise suspicion. One bad audit and you’re back to Intern.
Why similar: Programming 30.8% ★, Hacking 28.3% ★, Cyberpunk 12.6%, Story Rich 6.3%, Dystopian 5.5%
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: Programming 40.2% ★, Hacking 36% ★, Cyberpunk 10.4%, Puzzle 8%, RPG 3%
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
Why similar: Programming 47.4% ★, Puzzle 22.8%, Difficult 13.3%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Logic 5.3%
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: Programming 44.7% ★, Hacking 35.1% ★, Puzzle 11%, Logic 6.7%, Indie 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 30.2% ★, Programming 28% ★, Sci-fi 9.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Story Rich 5.8%
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 47.1% ★, Hacking 32.4% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Retro 4.7%, Logic 3.4%
Hack the System is an isometric, narrative puzzle. In a dark dystopian country, you have to investigate the conspiracy behind your missing sister by hacking computer networks.
Why similar: Hacking 35% ★, Sci-fi 11.3%, Story Rich 10.3%, Puzzle 10.3%, Atmospheric 7.9%
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 50.3% ★, Hacking 28.4% ★, Puzzle 11.6%, Logic 7.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 51.1% ★, Hacking 27.3% ★, Cyberpunk 8%, Dystopian 6.6%, Puzzle 4.3%
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.
Why similar: Programming 33.6% ★, Hacking 25.3% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Difficult 9%, Sci-fi 7.9%
Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine. BAFTA Scotland Game Winner.
Why similar: Programming 37.6% ★, Hacking 17.9% ★, Puzzle 10.4%, Difficult 9.3%, Logic 6.6%
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: Programming 30% ★, Hacking 26.6% ★, Cyberpunk 11.1%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Story Rich 6.7%
It's the easiest game in the world. If you like green and hate red, know how to unlock doors with keys, and can connect circles with lines, you can beat the game very easily.
Why similar: Programming 29.9% ★, Puzzle 19.6%, Cyberpunk 18.7%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Casual 9.9%
The story takes place in a future company called "RavenTek". R.O.O.T. - A grid, unit, and signal based computing system. Move the units to create signal links, transmit the signals, and activate other units to generate benefits. Are the benefits generated all for the company, or...?
Why similar: Programming 60.2% ★, Puzzle 17.6%, Sci-fi 4.5%, Dystopian 3.9%, Retro 3.6%
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 26.7% ★, Cyberpunk 13.5%, Dystopian 12.5%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Puzzle 10%
"Prime Prism" is a pure logic puzzle game themed around prime numbers and factorization. Construct circuits of light using optical tools like "Prisms" and "Lenses" to decompose and synthesize numbers. Over 140 stages across 11 worlds await your challenge.
Why similar: Programming 42% ★, Puzzle 15%, Difficult 12.9%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Logic 7.9%
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 34.2% ★, Programming 21.9% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Cyberpunk 9.5%, Sci-fi 6.4%
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: Programming 35.5% ★, Hacking 33.3% ★, Cyberpunk 8.5%, Story Rich 6.6%, Atmospheric 4.5%
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 29.4% ★, Programming 29.2% ★, Puzzle 10.6%, Story Rich 8.4%, Atmospheric 7.3%
Tok is a game where you will have to solve a puzzle by connecting all dots with lines. Note: the number of turns is limited!
Why similar: Programming 34.8% ★, Hacking 18.1% ★, Puzzle 16.7%, Minimalist 9.7%, Casual 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 33.8% ★, Programming 33.6% ★, Puzzle 10.3%, Cyberpunk 7.1%, Story Rich 5.7%
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 39.5% ★, Programming 22.3% ★, Cyberpunk 9.4%, Sci-fi 8%, Puzzle 6.5%
Brain busting puzzles to drive you loopy. Set up to 8 instructions that loop infinitely to reach the exit. Jump over obstacles and pitfalls, and use walls to your advantage. All Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles unlocked, so attempt them in any order.
Why similar: Programming 52.1% ★, Puzzle 20.6%, Logic 9.4%, Retro 7.9%, Casual 6.2%
Guide your signal to the target while hacking into the grid puzzle network. Craft your own challenges in the level editor to share with friends.
Why similar: Hacking 28% ★, Programming 24.2% ★, Puzzle 10%, Difficult 8.6%, Cyberpunk 7.8%
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 44.9% ★, Programming 25.5% ★, Puzzle 8.5%, Sci-fi 6.4%, Logic 6.2%
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 42.3% ★, Hacking 22% ★, Puzzle 11%, Difficult 8.2%, Retro 7.2%
He can't escape the memories that haunt him, and soon Setyo realizes he must return to Neo-Surabaya to save what's left of his family. Experience the upheaval of Setyo's mundane life in Bay City in this action-adventure prologue to Rendezvous.
Why similar: Hacking 27.7% ★, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Stealth 12.9%, Puzzle 12.3%, Dystopian 10%
You are a malfunctioning AI. Find ways to kill your master while respecting your laws. Craft commands word by word, and outsmart Alice by finding loopholes.
Why similar: Programming 38% ★, Puzzle 12.9%, Difficult 11.8%, Sci-fi 8%, Logic 7.2%
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 39.9% ★, Hacking 13.5% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Minimalist 6.9%, Difficult 6.8%
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 42% ★, Hacking 28.2% ★, Puzzle 9%, Logic 6.2%, Cyberpunk 5.5%
Move and rotate pieces to get the laser to hit the goal. Colored lasers, gates, and activators add additional challenge to this relatively simple concept. Can you complete all of the levels?
Why similar: Programming 37.8% ★, Puzzle 23.2%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Casual 12.1%, Logic 8.8%
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: Programming 35.5% ★, Hacking 30.6% ★, Cyberpunk 9.4%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Atmospheric 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 31.9% ★, Programming 21.9% ★, Story Rich 8.6%, Puzzle 7.8%, Sci-fi 6.7%
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 39.3% ★, Programming 35.9% ★, Atmospheric 7.9%, Story Rich 6.4%, Adventure 5.7%
Glyphs Apprentice is a deeply engrossing problem solving game, using simple programming to animate game objects. There are over 70 levels, each with a near infinite number of solutions.
Why similar: Programming 62.2% ★, Puzzle 17.9%, Difficult 14.7%, Indie 5.2%
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 49.9% ★, Programming 24.6% ★, Puzzle 8.8%, Adventure 6.4%, Story Rich 5.7%
A clever grid-based puzzler about thinking ahead: queue movement commands for a hungry animal, watch them execute, and debug your route when things go wrong. Each level introduces new mechanics like keys, switches, hazards, and jumps, turning simple paths into satisfying logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 52.4% ★, Puzzle 17%, Casual 9.3%, Logic 7%, Atmospheric 6.7%
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Puzzle 12.8%, Difficult 11.8%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Logic 6.8%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 57.1% ★, Puzzle 16.9%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Logic 5.2%, Indie 3.7%
Project: AFTERSHOCK is a fast-paced arcade hacking roguelite set in a dystopian future. Command a 20-year-old legacy terminal to breach enemy systems, siphon funds, and upgrade your hardware. Use your reflexes to survive the countdown and bring down the very system you created.
Why similar: Hacking 33.2% ★, Cyberpunk 13.5%, Puzzle 10.9%, Dystopian 9.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
Solve puzzles and learn how to code in this unique and gripping sci-fi adventure!
Why similar: Programming 39.9% ★, Hacking 31.5% ★, Puzzle 11.2%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Logic 4.4%