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hackmud
hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“"Hah! Look at all those obvious scam scripts! What are these idiots thinking?" he says, shortly before printing his character's sys.loc in global chat because he ran a trap script while rooting around for secrets. This is probably one of the best, if not the best, hacking-themed…”
— a player, Steam review · 46 hrs played“I ascended and became a sentient program with my organs connected to my CPU. 10/10 game, I would highly reccomend if you dont mind losing numerous braincells needed to function on a daily basis.”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Strange”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:17 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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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.
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Community Events are puzzles or competitions which have been created by the community and curated by us. See below for a description of the event in the creator's own words. --------------------------
Client Update v2.016
- Changed: various shell command color highlighting - Changed: help now includes pointer to marks.available - Added: supporter only store category Thank you to our ComCODE volunteers and staff for the
corps.share season end event
Hello hackmudders! We’re in the final 5 days of the season-end event and the denizens of h a c k m u d l a n d need YOU! If you are reading this post, your unrealized bits are likely part of the 2 mil
rOS (kernel_panic) community event wrap-up
Congratulations , everyone, on an incredible ~* community event *~ The rOS event was created by @chat_ \ (yes it was 100% player-made!) Massive props to them for delivering a unique and challenging se
Visitors Welcome
Hey all- A handful of fun stuff has happened over the last month that we want to share with you! Our big focus right now is keeping hackmud healthy long-term by growing our supporter base. Their backi
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Simulation |
| Player tags | Hacking · Programming · Massively Multiplayer · Simulation · Indie · Cyberpunk · Puzzle · Text-Based · Memes · RPG (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · In-App Purchases |
| Languages | English * * |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.hackmud.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Memory: 2 GB RAM DirectX: Version 10