Cover of Hack Run

Similar games

Games like Hack Run

2011 PC free 84 % positive Very positive, 239 reviews on Steam

A hacking puzzle game played entirely through a simulated DOS/UNIX-style command-line operating system. You infiltrate a mysterious organization step by step and uncover its secrets.

What defines Hack Run:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for Hack Run are Greyhat: A Digital Detective Adventure, Hacknet and Cyber Manhunt 2: New World. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Hack Run special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

10 games with a similar feel, sorted by match

Show games from the same series

Best match

Greyhat: A Digital Detective Adventure

95 %

2020 PC 8.19 € 90 % positive Very positive, 242 reviews on Steam

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Pure single-player experience

You play a hacker poking through simulated computer desktops, following digital trails and solving puzzles to uncover a hidden conspiracy. The appeal is the detective feel of digging through files and emails.

Hacknet

Puzzles and brain teasers

Hacknet is a hacking simulator played entirely in a terminal, where you use real-style commands to break into systems and uncover the mysterious death of a hacker. It offers little hand-holding, plenty of secrets and an atmospheric network full of puzzles.

Subject 13

Puzzles and brain teasers

A classic point-and-click adventure from Flashback creator Paul Cuisset: you escape a mysterious facility by collecting and combining items and cracking tricky mechanisms.

Hadean Lands

Puzzles and brain teasers

A pure text adventure about alchemy aboard a crashed starship. You solve intricate, interlocking puzzles by planning rituals and typing commands, making for a demanding and rewarding experience.

NITE Team 4

Puzzles and brain teasers

A hacking simulation where you type real-style terminal commands to infiltrate networks and direct strike teams. It adds alternate reality game elements and a conspiracy story set in The Black Watchmen universe.

Mainlining

Puzzles and brain teasers

A point-and-click hacking adventure played entirely inside a simulated computer desktop. You work cases against a cyber-criminal network by digging through data and piecing clues together.

Cyber Warrior

Focus on a single character

A hacking simulator in which you infiltrate the systems of a criminal cyber group in order to take it down. It likely focuses on terminal-style tasks and puzzles rather than action.

eXperience 112

Puzzles and brain teasers

You watch an abandoned ship through surveillance cameras and indirectly guide its lone survivor Lea through puzzles and dangers to uncover the truth. The unusual hook is acting only as her eyes and voice.

OS:Path

Focus on a single character

A small, tricky indie puzzle game where you use a console to track down the cause of a program's critical error and repair its modules through mini games and puzzles.

Feedback