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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“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“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“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 playedAchievement 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.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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
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
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
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
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
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | RPG |
| Player tags | Hacking · RPG · Cyberpunk · Education · Futuristic · Sandbox · Puzzle · Action RPG · Strategy RPG · Puzzle-Platformer · Tactical RPG · Real Time Tactics (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 12 |
| Official site | https://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