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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.
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An indie real-time strategy game where you push back a spreading, fluid enemy mass called the Creeper with carefully placed turrets and power supply. It plays like a tactical tower-defense puzzle.
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You guide a squad of drones through derelict spaceships using a command line, relying only on sensors and limited camera feeds. Its roguelike survival structure and oppressive atmosphere keep tension high.
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A programming puzzler where you write assembly-style code for a broken, fictional computer to fix its nodes. Dry, demanding and all about tinkering and optimizing solutions.
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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.
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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.
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A cyberpunk shopkeeping sim on a dystopian space station where you craft, trade and smuggle dubious goods, juggle faction loyalties, and race to buy out your shop before rent crushes you. A rogue AI adds a combat threat on the side.
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79 % 17.99 €
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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.
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A PlayStation survival horror where young Rion has no weapons and fights with psychic powers that must be recharged by taking drugs. Pre-rendered backgrounds and a bleak sci-fi conspiracy create an oppressive atmosphere.
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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.
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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.
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