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World of Haiku

World of Haiku

Entering the World of Haiku is the first step to acquiring the critical, real-world skills needed to become a cybersecurity professional. This is the first and only gamified cyberpunk experience that teaches you real-world hacking skills and tools as you advance through the game missions.

Released Jul 22, 2022 Developer Haiku, Inc Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux HackingRPGCyberpunkEducationFuturistic
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

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

77.4%positive146 reviews
Recommended · 84 found this helpful

“Great way to start gaining some skills with Linux commands and tools you will find on the field if heading into cybersec. Hopefully we will see more cybersec games on Steam. It's a good initiative for us cybersec students that are gamers. Thank you Haiku! Hello to all my fellow…”

— a player, Steam review · 56 hrs played
Recommended · 26 found this helpful

“I recommend World of Haiku with some reservations. World of Haiku is not a game, rather a gamified narrative driven tutorial on rails. A good game is a series of meaningful choices, a bad game is a series of obvious choices, e.g. take $5 or $10, while a game where you can only…”

— a player, Steam review · 48 hrs played
Not recommended · 196 found this helpful

“I've decided to play this game as an absolute beginner. The game itself has been a blast, and I didn't stop until I completed the campaign. HOWEVER, I cannot recommend it because there's a semi-hidden subscription service that's not advertised, but which prevents you from…”

— a player, Steam review · 10 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 2026-09-27.

12achievements
13.7%median completion
2.9%rarest: True SuperHero
83.1% of players 33.0% of players 32.5% of players 26.3% of players 24.0% of players 20.1% of players 13.7% of players 12.2% of players 6.6% of players 6.5% of players 5.8% of players 2.9% of players 83.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
83.1%Welcome to the Grid — Survive your first mission
33.0%You Got Potential — Eliminate at least one horsemen virus before running out of time
32.5%Scholar — Use at least 500 computer commands in the game
Rarest badges of honor
2.9%True SuperHero — Eliminate the Death horsemen virus in less than half the time given to you.
5.8%Key Master — Break in to all the targeted networks at least once
6.5%Beat the game — Complete all the missions

Latest official news

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

Jan 11, 2024
Transitioning from Steam to Haiku Online with a Special Offer

\ Haiku Community, As we embrace new beginnings, we want to share an important update: As of tomorrow, Haiku will be delisted from Steam. This marks the end of a significant chapter, but more importan

Jan 04, 2024
Last Game Update

NOTICE This will be the last game update for the World of Haiku game on Steam. The game will continue to be updated on our online service: play.haikuinc.io. The official date when the game will no lon

Jan 04, 2024
The Future of Haiku

Dear Steam Community, World of Haiku will soon be discontinued on the Steam platform. As of January 3, 2024, our team has made the difficult decision to discontinue support for Haiku on Steam. We made

Oct 11, 2023
Major Forge and quality of life improvements

Terminal The feature of making every command that does not have "an explicit" autocomplete for it call to autocomplete freely in "multiple files" mode. (echo has autocomplete now). Autocomplete now re

Sep 12, 2023
Forge Updates and Pattern Matching

Forge Cutscene editor. Using all the AI characters, you can now add mission start, end, and failure cutscenes. "No Goals" caption. Characters limit for Forge mission Id, Name, and Objective “Remove De

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

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

GenresRPG
Player tagsHacking · RPG · Cyberpunk · Education · Futuristic · Sandbox · Puzzle · Action RPG · Strategy RPG · Puzzle-Platformer · Tactical RPG · Real Time Tactics (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Stats · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
Achievements12
Official sitehttps://www.worldofhaiku.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system Processor: 64-bit processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 Storage: 3 GB available space