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As a freelance hacker agent, you take shady corporate jobs through a simulated computer desktop, breaking into systems and covering your tracks. You spend your earnings on better hardware and software while the risk of getting caught keeps rising.
What defines Uplink:
- Puzzles and brain teasers
- Tactical depth
- Sci-fi setting
- Challenging difficulty
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81 %
Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator
Tactical depth
A grim dieselpunk game where you operate a massive heavy turret, reading coordinates, measuring maps and aiming artillery precisely. The appeal lies in simulation-style calculation and targeting rather than fast action.
81 %
Volume
Tactical depth
A minimalist top-down stealth game that retells Robin Hood in a near-future setting. You plan routes past guards and sneak through levels while Andy Serkis helps carry the story.
81 %
Hacknet
Pure single-player experience
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.
80 %
Infinifactory
Challenging difficulty
A 3D engineering puzzler from Zachtronics in which you build factory lines for alien captors that assemble products. The appeal lies in tinkering and optimizing your solutions against other players' results.
80 %
Ixion
Tactical depth
As the administrator of a space station, you lead humanity through the void, expanding the station and managing population and resources while making harsh moral calls. A dark story of conspiracy and survival drives the city-building management.
79 %
Shadows of Doubt
Tactical depth
You play a private investigator in a fully simulated neo-noir 1980s city, solving procedurally generated murder cases by piecing together clues, fingerprints and witness statements yourself. The game never holds your hand, leaving deduction, break-ins and tailing suspects up to you.
79 %
That's Not My Neighbor
Dark, serious atmosphere
You work as a doorman at an apartment building and must use clues and rules to decide who is a real neighbor and who is a disguised impostor. Rising pressure and an eerie mood make every mistake dangerous.
78 %
Causal Loop
Pure single-player experience
A story-driven puzzler where you record your own past actions as up to three echoes and replay them to solve brain-bending puzzles. The sci-fi tale revolves around time, consequence and survival.
78 %
SpaceChem
Challenging difficulty
A demanding programming puzzler where you lay out waldo paths and instructions to build reactors that break apart and assemble molecules. Open-ended solutions and optimization histograms reward creative, engineer-style thinking.