Best Hacking Games on Steam

Real hacking is mostly patience, reading and a lot of failed attempts, and the best hacking games lean into that instead of hiding it behind a progress bar. Some of these hand you a fake terminal and trust you to learn the commands, some turn the whole thing into a programming puzzle, and a couple let you do it from a phone in the middle of an open city. What they share is the moment a system you did not understand an hour ago suddenly opens up. Every game here has Steam achievements, so there is a completion trail to follow once you are in.

1

Hacknet

The purest terminal fantasy on the list: you type real-looking commands into a command line to break into machines while a mystery unfolds in your inbox. Its short achievement list is mostly about seeing the story and its extra content through.

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2

EXAPUNKS

A Zachtronics programming puzzle game where you write tiny agents that crawl through networks to steal and alter data. Every solution is your own code, and the achievements push you to master the harder optional puzzles.

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3

Bitburner

An incremental game you play by writing actual JavaScript to automate hacking servers and grow your income. The achievement list is huge for an idle game and rewards scripting cleverly rather than simply waiting.

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4

Midnight Protocol

A tactical, turn-based take on hacking where you type commands to move through network nodes while managing your detection. It plays like a puzzle board with a story wrapped around it, and suits careful players more than fast ones.

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5

NITE Team 4 - Military Hacking Division

A dense, deliberately technical simulation built around realistic tools and terminology rather than movie-style hacking. It has the steepest learning curve here, which is exactly the appeal for players who want the job to feel real.

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6

Watch_Dogs® 2

The open-world option, where hacking is a toolset for traffic, cameras, drones and phones across a whole city. It is far more action game than simulation, but it has the biggest achievement list on this page and plenty of ways to clear objectives without firing a shot.

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7

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You

Less breaking in and more digging through: you sift profiles, chats and documents to decide what information gets passed on to an investigation. A quiet, uncomfortable game about surveillance, with achievements tied to the choices you make.

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8

TIS-100

A minimalist assembly-language puzzle game presented as a corrupted old computer you have to understand from its manual. Not hacking in the heist sense, but it scratches the same itch of making a strange machine do what you want.

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Updated 2026-10-14. Every game links to its full SteamVault page with achievement stats, rarity and community completion times.