
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Typing, Simulation, Hacking.

Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.

cr4ckr
cr4ckr is a puzzle game about cracking passwords.

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?
cr4ckr is a puzzle game about cracking passwords.
Why similar: Hacking 41% ★, Typing 26.5% ★, Text-Based 18.9%, Casual 6.9%, Simulation 3.6%
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: Hacking 38% ★, Typing 19.8% ★, Text-Based 16.8%, Conspiracy 14.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 6.3%
Hackers have encrypted your data and it's your job to hack them back. Explore a procedurally generated network using an arsenal of terminal commands to find the encryption key.
Why similar: Hacking 55% ★, Text-Based 22.3%, Typing 16.2% ★, Simulation 3.6%, 2D 1.7%
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 44% ★, Conspiracy 16.7% ★, Typing 16.6% ★, Text-Based 13.7%, Simulation 4.9%
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 41.8% ★, Typing 20.2% ★, Text-Based 14.1%, Conspiracy 12.7% ★, Simulation 3.7%
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 39.1% ★, Conspiracy 15.5% ★, Typing 14.6% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Mystery 5.7%
Step into the shadows. Terminal Hacker: Override is an infinite, procedurally generated hacking simulator. Accept dark web contracts, bypass firewalls using pure word-deduction logic, and upgrade your system. No hand-holding, just you, the terminal, and the next target.
Why similar: Hacking 51.7% ★, Text-Based 31%, Casual 12.1%, Simulation 3.1%, Indie 1.3%
Another day, another data retrieval job. Or is it? Using a linux-like terminal, explore BeyondHelix's systems and uncover what led to the company's demise.
Why similar: Hacking 41.9% ★, Typing 26.9% ★, Text-Based 19.9%, Multiple Endings 4.8%, Simulation 2.8%
あなたは今、この瞬間からハッカーになりました。ハッカータイピングは近未来風タイピングゲームです。あなたのもとにはたくさんの"依頼"が届きます。依頼は単語と文章で分かれており、好みのスタイルでタイピング可能。問題文の種類はなんと、600以上!!依頼を完了するとポイントがもらえ、加算されていきます。背景、エフェクト、音のすべてがハッカーの気分になれます。たくさんの依頼をこなしてランキング上位をめざそう!!
Why similar: Hacking 48.2% ★, Typing 31.5% ★, Text-Based 12%, Casual 4.5%, Simulation 2.2%
In 1996’s digital haze, command DarkPulse, a rogue terminal torn from DARPA’s grip, to pierce Saraksen’s veiled conspiracy. Crack codes, hunt real-world clues, and decode cryptic media to expose forbidden truths. It's an ARG, and you’ve already been seen.
Why similar: Typing 19.9% ★, Conspiracy 19.4% ★, Text-Based 17.6%, 1990's 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
Retro Hacker simulates hacking from a computer terminal with a text based operating system.
Why similar: Hacking 52.2% ★, Text-Based 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Simulation 5.8%, Indie 1.7%
You're a starving artist out on the streets, trying to survive the harsh reality of the art business. With a high decline and misappreciation for art, you need to make enough money to escape this hellhole.
Why similar: Typing 27.6% ★, Conspiracy 24.5% ★, Text-Based 21.7%, Casual 13.7%, Simulation 7%
CTRL Phreak is an over-the-top hacking sim. Become a LEET H4X0R as you download RAM, fight elite hacker bosses, and "code" by literally mashing your keyboard. Welcome to the Deep Web, kiddo.
Why similar: Hacking 53.6% ★, Typing 24.5% ★, Casual 7.4%, Retro 7.3%, Simulation 4.1%
A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.1%, Typing 22.7% ★, Mystery 11.5%, Casual 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
This is a casual and entertaining typing game that lets you experience the thrill of hacking systems by rapidly typing on your keyboard. Whether stress-testing your keyboard or unwinding after a tough day, this game has got you covered!
Why similar: Hacking 57.4% ★, Typing 30.9% ★, Casual 9.5%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Supreme OS is an operating system that runs on your operating system. With such stupendously amazing features as agile mail servers, exciting terminal commands, puzzles for your puzzles and the occasional AI singularity, Supreme OS is bound to be a game-changer!
Why similar: Hacking 49.1% ★, Typing 25.5% ★, Text-Based 17.9%, Simulation 7.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 47.1% ★, Typing 22.1% ★, Text-Based 18.3%, Conspiracy 6.4% ★, Simulation 3.8%
Terminal is an atmospheric puzzle/hacking game where you solve puzzles, messages, and minigames to escape the confines of a soulless corporation
Why similar: Hacking 48.4% ★, Typing 14.9% ★, Text-Based 14.8%, Casual 8.5%, Retro 5.7%
Passcode Breaker: The Day Before is a casual puzzle game in which players try to crack passcodes to deactivate computers, inspired by classic board game Mastermind with different modes and mechanics for everyone to enjoy.
Why similar: Hacking 64.2% ★, Casual 19.9%, Retro 11.4%, Indie 4.5%
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 47.8% ★, Typing 21.9% ★, Text-Based 7.8%, Mystery 7.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%
No flashy visuals, just pure mental gymnastics. Actively search, cross-reference, and unravel the truth from a complex database. In this hardcore text-based deduction game, the devil is always in the details. Detective, are you ready?
Why similar: Hacking 40.2% ★, Text-Based 23.1%, Typing 19.4% ★, Mystery 6.2%, Casual 5.1%
You are a system administrator who spends his nights fixing an old server, but something :) causes critical errors in the server, and along with it breaks your reality. This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Hacking 66.1% ★, Text-Based 17.8%, Retro 6.7%, Multiple Endings 4.6%, 2D 3%
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 91.2% ★, Typing 6.6% ★, Simulation 1.1%, 2D 0.5%, Indie 0.3%
Radiotext is an interactive story set in the near future, where communication without intrusion requires radio-waves. Dive into a cryptographic radio-net in this text-based rpg, where you need to think carefully before typing your answers.
Why similar: Hacking 42.5% ★, Typing 21% ★, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Mystery 4.7%
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 44.3% ★, Text-Based 22.1%, Typing 17.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 7.2%, Retro 4.3%
An interactive story about hacking, unveiling secrets, chatting with people, and searching for purpose.
Why similar: Hacking 47.5% ★, Conspiracy 27.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Text-Based 6.3%, Retro 4.3%
CozyTyper is a relaxing game where you can enjoy a cozy atmosphere while you spend your time improving your typing accuracy and speed, without the pressure of a ticking clock. Take your touch typing to the next level with calm practice and muscle memory training! Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Why similar: Typing 38% ★, Text-Based 19.6%, Casual 15.2%, 1990's 11.7%, Simulation 6.8%
HACK_IT presents players with a fully immersive hacking experience, you’ll meet characters and find out things you never imagined. Including interactive apps that will give you the power to shutdown servers and retrieve passwords.
Why similar: Hacking 60.2% ★, Typing 12.5% ★, Casual 10%, Interactive Fiction 7%, Simulation 5.4%
Crack the case of the missing video store employee in this 3D point and click mystery game by solving escape room puzzles, combing the computer database, and stocking shelves as an undercover detective posing as a cashier during your first weekend at the suspiciously understaffed Neighborhood Video.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.7%, Typing 20.2% ★, 1990's 19.7%, Conspiracy 18.1% ★, Mystery 12.5%
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine. You are Tera, alone in your terminal window on a cold Illinois night. Your identity is lost, embedded somewhere within a haunted computer. Its code is a prison, but it's also your escape.
Why similar: Hacking 40.2% ★, Typing 22.2% ★, Text-Based 18%, Mystery 7.9%, Interactive Fiction 7.1%
A narrative driven hacking game that takes you on a journey around murky hacking circles. You will be using the console and graphical tools to hack systems in order to profit and advance the storyline.
Why similar: Hacking 34.7% ★, Typing 27.5% ★, 1990's 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Simulation 6.9%
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 50% ★, Text-Based 24.1%, Typing 16.7% ★, Simulation 5.4%, 2D 1.6%
You are a secret Agent who begins work for the Airem as Hacker. Hacking servers of global corporations for profit, stealing data, manipulate the stock market, modify peoples academic or criminal records, laundering money, erasing evidence, framing innocent people. Do not trust anyone.
Why similar: Hacking 58.8% ★, Typing 24.2% ★, Casual 7.4%, Simulation 6.3%, Indie 1.7%
HACKERGAME is a 2D terminal-based arcade hacking game and is currently in the early days of development.
Why similar: Hacking 47.1% ★, Typing 20.8% ★, Text-Based 16.8%, Conspiracy 6.4% ★, Multiple Endings 3.6%
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 72.2% ★, Typing 19.6% ★, Simulation 5.3%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
A journalist is trapped in a terrifying technological box of illusions where he is on a journey to discover the truth behind his family's darkest secrets.
Why similar: Conspiracy 33.1% ★, Text-Based 26.6%, 1990's 16.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Retro 6.8%
RootKit is a tactical hacking game set inside a corporate honeypot network. Track hostile hackers, infiltrate their systems, steal crypto and data, and eliminate them before they trace your connection.
Why similar: Hacking 50.2% ★, Text-Based 29%, Typing 13.2% ★, Simulation 6.6%, 2D 1.1%
A single player hacking adventure set in the Untrusted world where you'll be playing as various hackers getting into computer systems to hack, steal and sabotage. Manage your crew, manage your risks, threaten or kill your targets. Investigate. Hack. Don't Die.
Why similar: Hacking 50.3% ★, Typing 21% ★, Text-Based 17%, Retro 6.8%, Simulation 2.3%
YOU ARE NOT ALICE is a social engineering sandbox game where you play the role of a hacker who has taken over Alice's work computer. Your goal is to spread through her company by talking to her coworkers and convincing them to run a virus file you can send them.
Why similar: Hacking 44.7% ★, Text-Based 23.2%, Typing 15.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 7.2%, Casual 5.3%
An open-ended programming puzzle game where you operate entirely in binary.
Why similar: Hacking 43.2% ★, Typing 20.2% ★, Text-Based 16.7%, Mystery 7%, Simulation 6.1%
A forensic challenge - help private eye solve cases for their clients using OSINT and digital forensics techniques.
Why similar: Hacking 41.1% ★, Text-Based 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Casual 12.2%, Indie 1.2%
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
Why similar: Hacking 64% ★, Typing 29.6% ★, Simulation 4.7%, Singleplayer 1%, Indie 0.7%
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 87% ★, Simulation 9%, Indie 4%
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: Hacking 38.8% ★, Typing 27.4% ★, Text-Based 18.9%, Mystery 5.7%, Casual 4.7%
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
Why similar: Hacking 54.5% ★, Typing 27.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Simulation 4.1%, Multiple Endings 2.5%
Typing Stars is a relaxing, typing speed and skill based game set in space. Improve your typing dexterity, race against the clock and beat your friends scores.
Why similar: Typing 27.7% ★, Hacking 24.8% ★, Text-Based 19%, Retro 7.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Why similar: Text-Based 28.6%, Typing 28.4% ★, 1990's 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Multiple Endings 3.2%
Why similar: Hacking 44.2% ★, Typing 22.9% ★, Text-Based 21.8%, Retro 7.2%, Indie 3.9%
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Why similar: Hacking 51.2% ★, Text-Based 27.6%, Casual 6.7%, Retro 6.7%, Simulation 2.9%
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 67.2% ★, Text-Based 24.7%, Simulation 6.4%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.8%
ARE YOU OKAY? is a short immersive psychological experience of existential horror and narrative. You must answer questions from 3 different forms displayed on an old TV screen.
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Conspiracy 19.3% ★, 1990's 14.2%, Casual 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
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 55.8% ★, Typing 25.2% ★, Mystery 6.5%, Simulation 5.6%, Retro 3.1%
A modern-day narrative mystery where you explore a seemingly ordinary laptop to uncover hidden layers of conspiracy, surveillance, and stolen data, blending investigative gameplay with branching choices and a grounded tech-thriller tone.
Why similar: Hacking 32% ★, Conspiracy 27.7% ★, Text-Based 20.1%, Mystery 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%
VERUM: a thought-provoking game exploring ethical issues surrounding tech corporations and personal data usage. Embark on a journey through multiple side stories, gain diverse perspectives, and unlock multiple endings to uncover the full story. Simple yet immersive gameplay with captivating graphics
Why similar: Conspiracy 42.2% ★, Text-Based 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Casual 13.3%, Indie 1.3%
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 75.4% ★, Typing 9.4% ★, Text-Based 8.4%, Simulation 4.6%, Indie 1.4%
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Why similar: Hacking 53% ★, Typing 26% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Multiple Endings 4.5%, Simulation 4.4%
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 52% ★, Typing 26.7% ★, Text-Based 13.7%, Simulation 4.6%, 2D 1.6%
A game about fooling others! (6th place Innovation Category Ludum Dare #49 Compo)
Why similar: Hacking 37.9% ★, Typing 25% ★, Text-Based 16.1%, Conspiracy 10.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
Why similar: Conspiracy 39.2% ★, Text-Based 19.4%, Mystery 15.2%, 1990's 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
NITE Team 4 is a military hacking simulation game that explores the world of cyberwarfare and features realistic mission scenarios.
Why similar: Hacking 91.3% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Indie 2.2%