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Terminal Hacker

Terminal Hacker

Released Dec 1, 2016 Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Free to PlayCasualIndieHacking
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.

52.8%positive163 reviews
Recommended · 18 found this helpful

“A simple game which is similar to hangman of which you guess the missing letters of made up passwords. Every 10 words completed you get a bypass to skip a word. There is a timer and every time you get a letter wrong in the game, the timer goes down some more. Worth a try if…”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Recommended · 23 found this helpful

“Terminal Hacker. Basically digital Hangman.”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Not recommended · 44 found this helpful

“Boring word game, nothing to do with hacking at all. Junk really, not worth spending time on.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

11achievements
29.0%median completion
10.1%rarest: 1337 Hacker
82.6% of players 78.8% of players 77.6% of players 40.1% of players 29.8% of players 29.0% of players 20.2% of players 20.2% of players 19.1% of players 18.4% of players 10.1% of players 82.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
82.6%Interal Hacks — Play on any difficulty in practice
78.8%Script Kiddie — Play on any gamemode on easy difficulty
77.6%Newbie — Crack 5 passwords in any gamemode
Rarest badges of honor
10.1%1337 Hacker — Hack a total of 1000 passwords
18.4%Networking — Upload A score to the leaderboards
19.1%Ranked Hacking — Play on any difficulty in marathon

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Apr 09, 2017
Word DataBase Update

Hi everyone, I've received a few reports of the word database having some offensive/racist words in it. The database in question was used from a website that listed all english words, some of them bei

Dec 08, 2016
Very Minor Update

Changelog: -Updated from Unity 5.3.4 to Unity 5.5

Dec 04, 2016
Mac and Linux are now working

Thanks to Cicyractu the Mac and Linix builds should now be working. For those of you wondering what the issue was and why it took so long to fix it. There are two packages by default for testing, beta

Dec 03, 2016
First Patch has been released

Changelog: - words generated now defaults to Simplified English, this can be changed in the options. - Added a notifier of how to use Bypasses ingame - Music will now loop instead of just stopping whe

Dec 02, 2016
Terminal Hacker Has Been Released

Welcome fellow hackers, Terminal hacker has just been released, to celebrate here are 5 Terminal Hacker - Payload Keys, enjoy. Also, let me know what you think of the game by posting here or making a

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.

GenresCasual, Indie, Free To Play
Player tagsFree to Play · Casual · Indie · Hacking (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Stats · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements11
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP+ Processor: 1.2GHz Processor Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: Intel Graphics 4000 or greater DirectX: Version 9.0 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 201 MB available space