
A hacking themed turn-based strategy game. Write scripts to move your agent. Eliminate or make use of virus and anti-virus to take over your target's device. Then hop around the network until you find your target.
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A hacking themed turn-based strategy game. Write scripts to move your agent. Eliminate or make use of virus and anti-virus to take over your target's device. Then hop around the network until you find your target.

Hacker vs IT
A game to show how really a fight between a Hacker and a IT worker works and how hackers operate. Old MS-DOS game.

Hack You
Desktop hacking and social engineering in a moral thriller. Write viruses, hide them in game builds, crack other people's PCs — to get to the former friend who stole your life and built a new success on its ruins.
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: Espionage 30.8% ★, Hacking 27.2% ★, Programming 20.9% ★, Detective 11.1%, Investigation 3.6%
Desktop hacking and social engineering in a moral thriller. Write viruses, hide them in game builds, crack other people's PCs — to get to the former friend who stole your life and built a new success on its ruins.
Why similar: Espionage 38.5% ★, Hacking 28.4% ★, Programming 25.1% ★, Simulation 5.1%, Investigation 1.6%
Master cybersecurity by doing inside a living virtual OS. Complete hands on modules, then enter a safe fictional Dark Net where virtual operators infiltrate rivals, defend their own systems, hunt traces and compete for reputation. More modules are coming.
Why similar: Programming 27.3% ★, Espionage 25.7% ★, Hacking 24.6% ★, Detective 6.9%, Investigation 5.5%
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: Programming 30.1% ★, Espionage 28.8% ★, Hacking 27.1% ★, Simulation 5.8%, Investigation 3.8%
A hacking sandbox with its own scripting language. Break into a network of thousands of machines, take what you find and sell it and write scripts to do the work for you. Every move leaves a trace, so stay unseen or clean up after yourself.
Why similar: Hacking 32.2% ★, Programming 30.1% ★, Espionage 27.9% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 1.5%
A systems-driven, real-time hacking sandbox in a living, procedurally generated world. Profile people, infiltrate companies, exploit networks from your terminal, automate complex attacks, erase the evidence, trade stocks and crypto, and buy or sell intelligence on an underground marketplace.
Why similar: Espionage 29.8% ★, Programming 27% ★, Hacking 25% ★, Detective 8.4%, Investigation 5.1%
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 33.2% ★, Programming 32.8% ★, Espionage 17.5% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Investigation 4.4%
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!
Why similar: Hacking 37.4% ★, Espionage 27% ★, Programming 16% ★, Detective 12%, Simulation 6.8%
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 47.6% ★, Programming 38.9% ★, Simulation 7.4%, Detective 4.2%, Strategy 1.6%
A mysterious hacker has stolen the NSA's cyber arsenal and is threatening to sell it to the highest bidder. You have been pulled from your day job and assigned to hunt the hacker. Triage alerts, search through logs, piece together the clues, and find The Shadow Brokers before they leak everything.
Why similar: Espionage 60.5% ★, Hacking 27.1% ★, Investigation 9.4%, Simulation 3%
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 32.6% ★, Programming 30.1% ★, Espionage 23.6% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Puzzle 3.9%
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 52.3% ★, Hacking 27.9% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Puzzle 5.1%
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: Programming 36% ★, Hacking 33.3% ★, Detective 13.1%, Investigation 7.3%, Simulation 4.8%
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 46.7% ★, Hacking 36.2% ★, Simulation 12.8%, Puzzle 4.3%
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 50.9% ★, Hacking 35.2% ★, Simulation 9.7%, Puzzle 4.3%
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 72.6% ★, Hacking 18.1% ★, Puzzle 4.7%, Simulation 4.6%
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: Programming 56.1% ★, Hacking 34.2% ★, Simulation 4.9%, Puzzle 4.7%
CRACKME.EXE is a hard hacking puzzle game where you use real tools to mess with the game's files and programs. You'll have to leave the game window to work out what's stopping you, then find a way around it.
Why similar: Hacking 44.4% ★, Programming 35.4% ★, Investigation 10%, Puzzle 5.3%, Strategy 4.5%
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 54.7% ★, Hacking 31% ★, Simulation 8.8%, Puzzle 4.9%, 2D 0.6%
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 43.9% ★, Hacking 29.6% ★, Detective 9%, Investigation 5.4%, Simulation 4.6%
You've awoken deep within a research facility in a new, programmable robot body. You have holes in your memories. At least you no longer have that hole in your head...
Why similar: Programming 53.5% ★, Hacking 33.1% ★, Simulation 8.2%, Puzzle 5.2%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Programming 46.1% ★, Hacking 45.5% ★, Simulation 8.4%
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: Programming 42.2% ★, Hacking 38.6% ★, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 6.8%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Hacking 31.2% ★, Simulation 11%, Puzzle 5.1%, 2D 0.4%
Experience hacking and uncover hidden secrets. Type commands to decode messages, navigate systems, and gain remote access to devices.
Why similar: Programming 35.9% ★, Hacking 32% ★, Detective 12.3%, Investigation 8.2%, Simulation 5.9%
Conduct a high-stakes espionage operation at the height of the Cold War. Intercept and decipher classified intelligence to uncover a hidden threat. Break codes, cover your tracks, and escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Espionage 45.3% ★, Hacking 21.5% ★, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 10%, Puzzle 4.7%
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 70.9% ★, Hacking 22.5% ★, Puzzle 6.6%
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 51.4% ★, Hacking 23.9% ★, Detective 11.5%, Simulation 6.6%, Investigation 4.5%
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
Why similar: Espionage 71.8% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Hacking 3% ★, Detective 1.8%
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 47% ★, Hacking 42.3% ★, Simulation 7%, Puzzle 3.7%
You are a whale communication scientist. Join a secret NSA team deciphering a directed alien transmission. Use visual programming to process the signal, translate the language, and interpret the message. All the science is REAL, even the linguistics behind the alien language. No PhD required.
Why similar: Programming 32.5% ★, Espionage 27% ★, Hacking 16.3% ★, Detective 10.1%, Investigation 6.6%
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 60% ★, Hacking 32.5% ★, Simulation 4%, Puzzle 2%, Strategy 1.5%
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 39.8% ★, Hacking 34.5% ★, Detective 11%, Simulation 6.5%, Investigation 6.4%
Get inside the mind of an ethical hacker and race against the firewall as you collect data, hack terminals and bring enemies down from the inside. Dataminers is a casual logic game, where you climb and clear towers full of data mines.
Why similar: Espionage 43.3% ★, Hacking 33.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 7.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.1%, Puzzle 4.2%
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 52.9% ★, Hacking 41.8% ★, Puzzle 5.1%, 2D 0.3%
hack teh world A cool hacking game where you play as a computer virus. You can play as a Ransomware, Trojan, Spyware, Miner, or just play the Tutorial. Choose from over 195 countries and spread your virus to other countries.
Why similar: Hacking 45% ★, Programming 42.5% ★, Simulation 11.9%, 2D 0.6%
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: Programming 42.1% ★, Hacking 41.4% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Puzzle 4.3%, 2D 0.6%
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Why similar: Programming 60.4% ★, Hacking 39.6% ★
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: Programming 44.9% ★, Hacking 39.6% ★, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 4.9%, Open World 1.6%
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 47.7% ★, Programming 31.6% ★, Detective 11.6%, Simulation 9.2%
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 44.7% ★, Programming 40.7% ★, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 2.1%, 2D 0.8%
Have you always wanted to break into IT but never had the chance? Well… now you do. Take on the role of a professional and prove that you can balance deadlines, personal life, and your own mental well-being.
Why similar: Espionage 35.1% ★, Programming 29% ★, Hacking 26.1% ★, Investigation 6.4%, Top-Down 2.5%
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 50.3% ★, Programming 43.4% ★, Puzzle 6%, 2D 0.3%
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: Espionage 44.1% ★, Hacking 33.4% ★, Detective 12.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Puzzle 3.8%
Hacker Plan is a realistic hacking simulator. Ever dreamed of becoming a hacker? It all starts with your first command! In story missions, scout targets, crack passwords, bypass defenses and seize the entire network. No experience needed — just curiosity, and the game will make you a true hacker!
Why similar: Hacking 42.3% ★, Programming 41.7% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 4.7%, 2D 0.5%
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
Why similar: Programming 50.2% ★, Hacking 38.8% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Puzzle 4%, 2D 0.6%
You are a passport control officer at a busy international airport. Inspect documents, catch wanted criminals, and choose whether to resist or accept bribery. Every stamp shapes your rank and your fate.
Why similar: Espionage 65.2% ★, Simulation 17.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Puzzle 6.2%, 2D 0.9%
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: Espionage 48.2% ★, Hacking 36.4% ★, Grid-Based Movement 5.1%, Puzzle 4.5%, Strategy 3.6%
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 51.7% ★, Hacking 36.4% ★, Investigation 11.8%
BOUND is a psychological thriller where you search through private conversations, hidden files, and recordings on devices that aren't your own. Manipulate others, uncover dark secrets, and shape the outcome through the choices you make.
Why similar: Espionage 36.6% ★, Hacking 22.2% ★, Detective 17.7%, Investigation 10.2%, Simulation 8.8%
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: Programming 43.5% ★, Hacking 39.5% ★, Simulation 8.6%, Puzzle 4.3%, Strategy 3.6%
Play, learn, and experiment with programming in the Sprite32! 8-bit microcomputer sandbox. Use the high-level FREMScript programming language to write programs, create dynamic pixel art, and explore audio generation. Play tutorials and challenges to learn all the aspects of the system.
Why similar: Programming 62.1% ★, Hacking 21.6% ★, Simulation 12.2%, Puzzle 3.5%, 2D 0.6%
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 58.9% ★, Hacking 29% ★, Simulation 5.9%, Puzzle 5.9%, 2D 0.4%
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: Programming 38.5% ★, Hacking 34.2% ★, Detective 12.4%, Investigation 6.9%, Simulation 3.7%
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 49.9% ★, Hacking 36.3% ★, Simulation 8.5%, Puzzle 5%, 2D 0.3%
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: Programming 44% ★, Hacking 42.1% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 3%, Puzzle 1.8%
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 57.5% ★, Programming 28.1% ★, Simulation 10.4%, Puzzle 3.9%
Program a robot and save the hostages! Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment in this tactical programming puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 74% ★, Simulation 15.1%, Puzzle 7.1%, Strategy 3.8%
The AI writes all the code. Confidently. Wrong. You are the last human reviewer. Interrogate the swarm, run the code, catch the lie. Fix it, or ship it anyway. Next comes a problem, a recall, a funeral, or the end of the world. Plays fully on a controller, and the code is real when you want it.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Hacking 30.2% ★, Detective 13%, Investigation 8.1%, Puzzle 4.2%
Write, test, and break through. A programming puzzle game about the joy of trial and error.
Why similar: Programming 76.1% ★, Simulation 16.6%, Puzzle 7.3%