Games like Mainlining
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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.
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$24.99Hacker Simulator
Oct 20 · Save All Studio
Both: Hacking · Programming · Typing
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.
HackingSimulationSingleplayerRealisticCrimeProgrammingTypingDetectiveAdventureCyberpunk👍 1,230
$9.99Hacknet
Aug 12 · Team Fractal Alligator
Both: Hacking · Programming · Typing
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.
HackingSimulationProgrammingTypingStory RichSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackChoices MatterCrimeAtmospheric👍 16,915
$19.99Anonymous Hacker Simulator
Apr 3 · Sicarius
Both: Hacking · Typing
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.
SimulationHackingTypingImmersive SimCrimeSandboxDetectiveStealthLife Sim3D👍 743
$18.99hackmud
Sep 22 · ComCODE
Both: Hacking · Programming · Puzzle
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.
IndieHackingProgrammingSimulationMassively MultiplayerRPGCyberpunkPuzzleText-BasedMemes👍 752
$9.99Cyber Manhunt
Feb 2 · Aluba Van+
Both: Puzzle · Hacking
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.
SimulationRPGPuzzleHackingIndieMysteryDetectiveSingleplayerCrimeImmersive Sim👍 14,522
$19.99Grey Hack
Dec 14 · Loading Home
Both: Hacking · Programming
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.
HackingSimulationProgrammingMassively MultiplayerEarly AccessIndieStrategySandboxRealisticPvP👍 1,805
$13.37Hack 'n' Slash
Sep 9 · Double Fine Productions
Both: Hacking · Puzzle · Programming
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!
AdventureIndieHackingHack and SlashPuzzleProgrammingCasualSingleplayerFemale ProtagonistFantasy👍 538
$14.99Midnight Protocol
Oct 13 · LuGus Studios
Both: Hacking · Typing
Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.
SingleplayerHackingTypingStory RichAtmosphericTurn-Based StrategyStrategy RPGMinimalistStrategyCrime👍 237
$24.99Else Heart.Break()
Sep 24 · Erik Svedäng, El Huervo / Niklas Åkerblad, Tobias Sjögren, Oscar "Ratvader" Rydelius, Johannes Gotlén
Both: Programming · Hacking · Point & Click
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
ProgrammingAdventureIndieRPGHackingSingleplayerSurrealAtmosphericCyberpunkPoint & Click👍 347
-40%$7.79Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator
Jan 20 · Aluba Van+
Both: Puzzle · Point & Click · Hacking
Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.
DetectivePuzzleMysteryPoint & ClickInvestigationAtmosphericStory RichHackingDark HumorDystopian 👍 5,194
$11.99Uplink
Aug 23 · Introversion Software
Both: Hacking
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.
HackingIndieStrategySingleplayerCyberpunkSimulationSci-fiReal-Time with Pause2DExperimental👍 1,771
$9.99Gunpoint
Jun 3 · Suspicious Developments
Both: Puzzle · Pixel Graphics
Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.
StealthIndiePuzzle2DPixel GraphicsSingleplayerComedyActionStrategyNoir👍 10,275
$14.99Technobabylon
May 21 · Technocrat Games
Both: Point & Click · Pixel Graphics
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
Point & ClickAdventureCyberpunkPixel GraphicsSci-fiIndieSingleplayerStory RichFemale ProtagonistLGBTQ+👍 1,122
-60%$3.99CaseCracker
Dec 19 · BlackRobe
Both: Puzzle · Hacking
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?
Text-BasedDetectivePuzzlePsychological HorrorHackingRPGWord GameStory Rich2DSimulation👍 3,314
-95%$0.99Hacker Man
Jun 3 · GamesBraz
Both: Hacking · Programming
Joe, an experienced programmer at a reputable technology company, is fired by a director of the company, after having a romantic relationship with the director's wife. Very angry about the situation, Joe starts studying hacking, to get revenge for his firing.
HackingLootTacticalProgrammingHeistAdventureAssassinsRealisticCrimeCombat
-80%$0.99Hacker Evolution: Untold
Sep 14 · exosyphen studios
Both: Hacking
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.
SimulationIndieHackingSingleplayer👍 191

