- #1 OVERRIDE PROTOCOL
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Peyote Gaming
Windows
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 43.5% ★, Cyberpunk 18.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Artificial Intelligence 9.6%, Simulation 8%
- #2 HELLO HACKER
96% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: h3ll0h4ck3r
Windows · Linux
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 33.8% ★, Typing 17.8% ★, Text-Based 13%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%, Crime 7.3%
- #3 Anonymous Hacker Simulator
96% matchVery Positive86% of 754 reviews2024
Dev: SicariusPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 36.6% ★, Typing 18.9% ★, Crime 15.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Stealth 7.6%
- #4 RootKit
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan DePauloPub: Cold North Interactive
Windows
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 34.7% ★, Text-Based 17.4%, Cyberpunk 11.1%, Strategy 9.6%, Typing 9.2% ★
- #5 Hacker Evolution
94% matchMixed68% of 1,083 reviews2010
Dev: exosyphen studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 36.6% ★, Cyberpunk 15.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Typing 12.4% ★, Simulation 7.7%
- #6 AB.Net
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Timothy Hacquebord
Windows
A terminal‑based hacking simulator focused on realism and system‑level interaction.
Why similar: Hacking 18.5% ★, Typing 17.5% ★, Capitalism 13.3%, Crime 13.3%, Text-Based 12.5%
- #7 Anonymous Hacker Simulator: Prologue
93% matchVery Positive91% of 1,916 reviews2023
Dev: SicariusPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows
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 38.1% ★, Crime 18.7%, Cyberpunk 10.8%, Typing 9.3% ★, Simulation 8.9%
- #8 Radiotext
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alp Arslan
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.1% ★, Typing 16% ★, Cyberpunk 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Text-Based 9%
- #9 Blackdoor
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Static Signal
Windows
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 35.9% ★, Typing 17.5% ★, Cyberpunk 11.2%, Text-Based 10.5%, Crime 10.4%
- #10 Void Future: Hacking Protocol
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVL InteractivePub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
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 36.8% ★, Typing 17.5% ★, Cyberpunk 12.6%, Text-Based 12.5%, Immersive Sim 7.4%
- #11 Yolo Space Hacker 2 - Mission Bahamas
90% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: BKNLab
Windows
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 40.9% ★, Cyberpunk 20.8%, Text-Based 10.9%, Stealth 6.8%, Simulation 6.7%
- #12 HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
89% matchVery Positive90% of 519 reviews2026
Dev: HotBunnyPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 37.7% ★, Typing 19.3% ★, Crime 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%, Artificial Intelligence 7%
- #13 Untrusted: hackers at large
89% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: playuntrusted.comPub: Evolved Labs
Windows · Linux
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 36.5% ★, Crime 17.5%, Typing 15.4% ★, Cyberpunk 11.8%, Text-Based 10.7%
- #14 Torrent Empire
88% matchMixed64% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Steel Games
Windows
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 36.1% ★, Typing 18.8% ★, Crime 16.7%, Text-Based 8.3%, Cyberpunk 7.8%
- #15 Yolo Space Hacker
87% matchVery Positive96% of 214 reviews2020
Dev: BKNLab
Windows
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 42.7% ★, Stealth 15.2%, Cyberpunk 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Simulation 5.7%
- #16 cr4ckr
86% matchMixed56% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Cutie Café
Windows
cr4ckr is a puzzle game about cracking passwords.
Why similar: Hacking 41.9% ★, Typing 27.4% ★, Text-Based 16.9%, Simulation 7.1%, Casual 3.2%
- #17 Wardialler
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: nervous_testpilotPub: Mode 7
Windows
A hacking text adventure.
Why similar: Hacking 33% ★, Crime 19.5%, Typing 17.3% ★, Cyberpunk 16%, Text-Based 14.2%
- #18 void future prologue
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RVL InteractivePub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
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 22.7% ★, Hacking 19.3% ★, Text-Based 13.6%, Cyberpunk 12.2%, Simulation 11.2%
- #19 HACK_IT
86% matchMostly Negative25% of 145 reviews2016
Dev: Dan_D
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 49.1% ★, Crime 14.5%, Typing 10.3% ★, Simulation 8.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%
- #20 Hacker Simulator
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,265 reviews2021
Dev: Save All Studio
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 47.1% ★, Crime 17.8%, Typing 15.2% ★, Cyberpunk 12.7%, Simulation 7.1%
- #21 HACK.BAK
82% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: David Huish
Windows
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 51.7% ★, Text-Based 18.2%, Typing 15.4% ★, Strategy 7%, Simulation 6.6%
- #22 DotSec
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alterhook
Windows · Mac · Linux
DotSec is a modern hacking simulator where you can choose your path as a Black Hat, White Hat, or Gray Hat hacker. The choices you make will directly impact your journey through the hacking world while also guiding you through complex puzzles and challenges.
Why similar: Hacking 36.6% ★, Crime 21.6%, Simulation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Immersive Sim 8.6%
- #23 Hardwired
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lostbyte
Windows · Linux
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 31.4% ★, Typing 16.6% ★, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Text-Based 12.8%, Nonlinear 7.7%
- #24 HELLO HACKER - Project Daybreak
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: h3ll0h4ck3r
Windows · Linux
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 41.4% ★, Typing 15.8% ★, Crime 11.9%, Text-Based 11.2%, Cyberpunk 9.7%
- #25 Hacker Simulator: Free Trial
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 474 reviews2022
Dev: Save All Studio
Windows
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 37.4% ★, Crime 18%, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Typing 14.1% ★, Simulation 12.1%
- #26 How To Hack In?
80% matchPositive89% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: Red Buffalo Interactive
Windows · Linux
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 30.1% ★, Crime 15.7%, Cyberpunk 15.1%, Typing 11.5% ★, Text-Based 8.1%
- #27 ByteBurst: Hacking Simulator
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: HotBunny
Windows
Welcome to the cutting edge of virtual mayhem in "ByteBurst" – the ultimate hacker's playground. Immerse yourself in a thrilling journey through the digital realm, where your skills will be pushed to the limit, and every line of code is a potential weapon.
Why similar: Hacking 34.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Typing 13.8% ★, Crime 12.8%, Simulation 9.8%
- #28 HackHub: Free Trial
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 689 reviews2024
Dev: HotBunnyPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 44.4% ★, Typing 13.7% ★, Crime 10.5%, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 8.8%
- #29 Datascape
79% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2022
Dev: Aava Fertsman
Windows · Linux
Traverse the Datascape, hack ICE to explore their programs and make a run on the SimulaCom corp! If that's not your thing just explore a section of the Datascape. A compact experience with a message to discover.
Why similar: Hacking 36.6% ★, Cyberpunk 20.1%, Capitalism 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Nonlinear 8.3%
- #30 Retro Hacker
78% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2018
Dev: Matthew Diaz
Windows
Retro Hacker simulates hacking from a computer terminal with a text based operating system.
Why similar: Hacking 48.5% ★, Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Choices Matter 4.3%
- #31 SCAMMER '99
76% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: KONTORA Indie
Windows
Experience the wild internet of 1999: buy darknet databases, validate stolen cards, manage risk, gamble dirty money, and upgrade your hardware. Earn enough to vanish forever. A Windows 98‑style scammer sim.
Why similar: Hacking 43.6% ★, Crime 22.4%, Capitalism 16.4%, Immersive Sim 8.2%, Simulation 5.6%
- #32 Hacknet
77% matchVery Positive94% of 25,910 reviews2015
Dev: Team Fractal AlligatorPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 80.6% ★, Typing 5.9% ★, Crime 5.4%, Cyberpunk 4.6%, Simulation 2%
- #33 Data Trader
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kinetic Sparks Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Data Trader is a cyberpunk strategy game where you acquire, analyze, and sell data to recover your memory. Manage archives, take risks for valuable files, and shape a world where every decision has consequences.
Why similar: Hacking 29.5% ★, Crime 26.1%, Cyberpunk 16.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Choices Matter 5.6%
- #34 ⟨Unknown_Terminal⟩
75% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Stelex Software
Windows
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
Why similar: Hacking 44.7% ★, Text-Based 23.2%, Typing 15.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 7.2%, Casual 5.3%
- #35 Uplink
77% matchVery Positive91% of 2,417 reviews2006
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
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 49.2% ★, Cyberpunk 14.4%, Typing 11.2% ★, Text-Based 10%, Strategy 5.3%
- #36 Zero Trust
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tomáš Fišer
Windows
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 23.5% ★, Typing 23.4% ★, Cyberpunk 14.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Simulation 11.6%
- #37 Su Hack
75% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Eric L.Pub: EL TECH
Windows · Linux
Hackers Simulation - REAL TIME virtual HACKING - be the TOP 1 RANK HACKER - Tchat with others players / preys
Why similar: Hacking 45.8% ★, Crime 24.1%, Stealth 15.8%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 5.4%
- #38 Botnet of Ares
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiniuc
Windows · Linux
Botnet of Ares is an incremental hacking roguelite set in a cyberpunk world where everything is connected. Unlock upgrades, expand your botnet, exploit millions of devices, optimize your network & decide the future of humanity.
Why similar: Hacking 41.3% ★, Cyberpunk 21.4%, Crime 15.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Choices Matter 5.4%
- #39 Dark Web: Vigilante
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Edgebyter_
Windows
You are Vigilantus, a genius hacker and former member of Runyan. Immerse yourself in a world run by corrupt corporations, politicians, and greedy pharmaceutical companies. Uncover dark political secrets. Battle systemic injustice. Redistribute wealth to the poor. Destroy entire corporations.
Why similar: Hacking 33.4% ★, Capitalism 16.6%, Cyberpunk 13.7%, Typing 11.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 8.2%
- #40 Cyber Manhunt
72% matchVery Positive93% of 15,480 reviews2021
Dev: Aluba Van+
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 55.9% ★, Crime 15.1%, Simulation 12.1%, Cyberpunk 10.2%, Immersive Sim 5.4%
- #41 Grey Hack
73% matchVery Positive90% of 1,825 reviews2017
Dev: Loading Home
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 61.1% ★, Typing 7.7% ★, Simulation 7.3%, Crime 6.6%, Cyberpunk 6.3%
- #42 Project: AFTERSHOCK
71% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: Tuna Dundar
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 44.5% ★, Cyberpunk 22.2%, Text-Based 13.6%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 6.9%
- #43 Supreme OS
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pantheon Inc.
Windows · Linux
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 47% ★, Typing 24.8% ★, Text-Based 14.9%, Simulation 13.3%
- #44 Book of Decisions
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: SayrGames
Windows
A game in the Chatbot Roleplay category.Among the ancient Egyptian ruins, a book is found, and in our game, we talk to this book. The book answers everything we write. The book's general power is that everything written in it becomes real in the world, but we discuss the consequences with the book.
Why similar: Typing 31.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Artificial Intelligence 10.9%
- #45 Cybermere
74% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: Player 1
Windows
Cybermere is a sci-fi hacking game. Use warez to penetrate ICE, mine for password fragments and break into database of various companies. You play as Lance, a novice hacker in 2033.
Why similar: Hacking 49.3% ★, Crime 20.8%, Cyberpunk 17.4%, Immersive Sim 8.6%, Choices Matter 2.9%
- #46 Terminal Hacker: Override
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: EchoWorks
Windows
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 53.8% ★, Text-Based 28.1%, Simulation 6.3%, Minimalist 6.1%, Casual 5.7%
- #47 Hifuu OS: Hack Into the Barrier
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KaleidoScreens
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 41.3% ★, Text-Based 18%, Typing 16.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Immersive Sim 6.8%
- #48 DopeNet
69% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: WeirdoMart
Windows
DopeNet is a stupidly fun, dark web fantasy drug dealing simulator. Buy low, sell HIGH, go get it.
Why similar: Hacking 28.6% ★, Crime 23.8%, Capitalism 18.4%, Text-Based 14.6%, Simulation 6.1%
- #49 BeyondHelix
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bruno Vale Barbosa Eiterer
Windows · Linux
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 43.5% ★, Typing 28.3% ★, Text-Based 18%, Simulation 5.6%, Minimalist 3.2%
- #50 Milk Mafia
68% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Pure Bluff
Windows
An AI-driven narrative adventure where rival dairy and snail-slime gangs battle for control of Brine City. Engage in high-stakes debates where every word counts—argue, persuade, and outsmart unpredictable characters who think and react in real time.
Why similar: Crime 26.7%, Text-Based 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Artificial Intelligence 11.9%
- #51 Project DeepWeb
70% matchVery Positive82% of 129 reviews2020
Dev: NightCat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 46.3% ★, Typing 21.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Simulation 7.7%, Immersive Sim 7.3%
- #52 ハッカータイピング
70% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: naoeZijiGames
Windows
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 49.8% ★, Typing 32.9% ★, Text-Based 10.8%, Simulation 4.4%, Casual 2.1%
- #53 Desktop Hacker
69% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: cybercritics
Windows
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 31.4% ★, Typing 25.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Simulation 12.1%
- #54 NETGHOST
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: DRAGONFIRE STUDIOS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Netghost is a Crime Drama visual novel with a mystery-driven story full of intrigue, twists and turns. The story follows Ian Newfield, a cyber security engineer who transforms into a cold-blooded criminal in his struggle to protect the company he works for and aid his ailing sister.
Why similar: Hacking 35.1% ★, Cyberpunk 18.7%, Crime 18.5%, Artificial Intelligence 8.3%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%
- #55 Hacky
67% matchVery Positive92% of 97 reviews2024
Dev: Cuddle Code
Windows
The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.
Why similar: Hacking 39.2% ★, Typing 21.5% ★, Crime 17.8%, Cyberpunk 13.8%, Simulation 4.4%
- #56 Keylogger: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel
67% match8 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Isaac BirchmierPub: If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth, LLC
Windows · Mac
Each person’s family name in the Continuum is given a debt which they must pay back, or they risk being wiped by the Grid.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.3%, Crime 20.2%, Capitalism 20.1%, Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%
- #57 Airhack: Hacking
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Airem
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 53.9% ★, Typing 22.5% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Casual 3.1%
- #58 Wetware
68% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Brainfists LLC
Windows
Explore the interplays between AI ethics and consciousness in the shoes of a researcher tasked to hack an enemy drone to win a war.
Why similar: Hacking 33% ★, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Stealth 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Nonlinear 10.5%
- #59 Sneaky Tail
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PisiPisi Games
Windows
Sneaky Tail is a top-down game where you play as a Mouse Sneaky with a big dream becoming a pop superstar. Sneak around, pocket valuables, load up your minivan, and earn enough to make your musical dreams come true with your friends.
Why similar: Hacking 49.4% ★, Stealth 22.6%, Crime 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%, Strategy 3.9%
- #60 DataJack 2020
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Epic Banana Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Take contracts from sinister megacorporations in this stealth action immersive sim sequel to DataJack. Choose your approach: hack defenses, take down the guards, or blow a new entrance with explosives. Use your rewards to buy weapons, cyberlimbs, hack software, and ninja gear.
Why similar: Hacking 31.3% ★, Crime 18.2%, Cyberpunk 17.6%, Stealth 13.3%, Nonlinear 8%