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Hacker Simulator
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Believable hacking commands” (15 of 85 reviews); the most common complaint is “Repetitive hacking task loops” (19). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
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“The whole concept of this game is amazing, I like how simplistic it is but also educating (on how to hack people lmao), but obviously it isn't how you do it exactly, but it's still fun doing all this as it does show a…”
19 of the 85 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“Although a fun experience, it became very repetitive and felt like a chore pretty fast. Still I had fun, so thumbs up!”
13 of the 85 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
11 of the 85 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“- couldn't get past one of the early nmaps”
“Cool game but not so Easy...”
8 of the 85 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
5 of the 85 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“The state this game is in is a JOKE! The game has TONS of bugs, and is just overall not polished. They released a prototype before even making the real game. When trying to do anything something just happens like not…”
Counted across 85 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 74.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“As someone who has played a few of the programming/hacking games I'd say this one is approachable while still helping you build transferable cyber security concepts, and maybe even a few basic skills too. Will you be able to perform real pentesting after playing this game?…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“the game is pretty fun and runs really well on steam deck desktop mode i recommend to anyone looking for a good simulator”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“I mean it's fun for a bit, but it just feels like you're doing the same thing over and over again. Definitely not worth the money unless you pick it up heavily discounted.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update - Terminal shake, Decrypt focus, future overhaul
Hello everyone,This update attempts to fix the terminal shaking issue as well as the focus issue in the decrypt tool. Please let me know in the Steam discussions or on the Discord server if the proble
Fix Compiled Exploit Versions Mission
Hi everyone,This update fixes a bug that could block your progression (soft lock) when reaching the maximum number of exploit versions before completing the mission requiring you to use compiled explo
Balance Update
Hi everyone,With this update, I wanted to bring some much-needed balancing to the game. I apologize for the long delay between the translation update and this one, but I had to prioritize other projec
Translation update
Hi,It’s been a very long time since the last update, as I had to prioritise other work.TranslationThe main focus of this update is translations into the following languages:FrenchItalianGermanSpanishP
Hotfix: Last item in Help list, Decrypt tool losing focus
Hello everyone, In this hotfix, I've tried to fix the decrypt tool that lose focus on the terminal, and I've fixed the last item in the help list that was not being displayed anymore since the last co
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Hacking · Simulation · Singleplayer · Realistic · Crime · Typing · Programming · Adventure · Detective · Cyberpunk · Atmospheric · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 64-bit or later Processor: i5-2500 3.30 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 780 GTX or AMD Radeon Radeon R7 260X series card or higher Storage: 10 GB available space