The Best Hacking Games for Linux

Update : NETGHOST added at rank #8.
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Midnight Protocol (2021)

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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.


  • typing
  • hacking
  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • tactical
  • minimalist
  • narrative-rpg
  • atmospheric
  • crime
  • sci-fi
  • programming
  • story
  • hacker

2

Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum (2022)

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Embody the ultimate cybernetic corporate agent. Master deadly gunplay, time manipulation, and supernatural abilities. Hack computers, people, even the individual bullets flying at you. Confront the future, and die trying.

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  • time
  • transhumanism
  • hacking
  • bullet
  • immersive
  • cyberpunk
  • simulation
  • manipulation
  • top-down
  • stealth
  • dystopian
  • multiple-endings
  • futuristic
  • rpg
  • story

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EXAPUNKS (2018)

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The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.


  • programming
  • hacking
  • automation
  • cyberpunk
  • logic
  • in-world
  • puzzle

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Turing Complete (2021)

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Build a functional computer through challenging logic puzzles


  • programming
  • hacking
  • logic
  • education
  • simulation
  • automation
  • puzzle
  • building

5

Hacknet (2015)

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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.


  • hacking
  • terminal
  • simulation
  • liberty

6

Grey Hack (2017)

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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.

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  • hacking
  • mmo
  • programming
  • multiplayer
  • simulation

7

Comet (2021)

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Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.

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  • programming
  • hacking
  • automation
  • typing
  • education
  • building
  • pixel
  • logic
  • multiple-endings
  • science
  • time-management
  • sandbox
  • retro
  • warm
  • puzzle

8

NETGHOST (2024)

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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.

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  • hacking
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • programming
  • cyberpunk
  • visual-novel
  • crime
  • automation
  • conspiracy
  • drama
  • investigation
  • detective
  • modern
  • fiction
  • sci-fi

9

Endless Maze (2023)

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Try to get to the end of the maze, if there is one...

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  • hacking
  • 2d
  • horror
  • dungeon-crawler
  • top-down
  • psychological
  • demons
  • pixel
  • maze
  • retro
  • arcade
  • pve
  • exploration

10

FreedroidRPG (2023)

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FreedroidRPG is an open source sci-fi role playing game, where the player fights against hordes of bots in order to free humanity from rebel bots whom know no mercy.

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  • hacking
  • hack-and-slash
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • isometric
  • dungeon-crawler
  • dystopian
  • editor
  • rpg
  • post-apocalyptic
  • level
  • cartoony
  • open-world
  • sci-fi
  • aliens

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