Hacknet

is bestest game about hacking
Im very like that game because it have history about Bit
game very cool and I'm recomended play it
DLC bestest than originaly story, but originaly story good too

I haven't played this for a while, so this game does get nostalgia points since i enjoyed playing it back then, it made me feel like a real hacker,i found about this game on discord store when that was still thing and asked my mom to buy it on steam, and she did, considering how cheap it is, it was worth the money. very fun made me feel like hacker and cool story

this game is wonderful time waiting just for you, 9/10 would recommend

It feels like solving competitive programming questions... It is fun and the graphics are so unique and well made...

Hackers, The Net, The Matrix, Wargames, Swordfish, The Italian Job, Eagle Eye, Goldeneye... and even Live Free or Die Hard all portray "hacking" as very cool, stylish, and intense. Instead, it's actually more often nerdy book stuff, social engineering, GitHub spackle, and convincing proto-AIs that you are a clueless granny trying to avoid accessing specifically Bill Gates' money vault combination.

Hacknet does an exceptional job of "Peanut butter cup"ing both worlds together, adding in a user friendly UI (at least until *SPOILER ALERT* something happens and you have to MSDOS yourself a solution. I laughed nostalgically at that moment for a good half hour. Ah the good old days of Command Line prompts.), and blending in a very immersive soundtrack. If you've ever wondered what life as a movie hacker actually feels like, give this game a try. You won't be disappointed.

Nice idea, but constantly freezes after a few minutes on a Mac M4 PRO.

Great game. If you get stuck (like I did) then make sure you aren't thinking about it too hard. Also make sure you're writing down the correct password. I was stumped for 2 hours because I wrote down 1 instead of l.

I think I picked this game up during a Steam sale or something for a few bucks... and then it sat in my library forever..

The other day I said screw it and started combing through some games out of boredom looking to try something a little more casual while taking a break from my main time wasters, and HOLY crap.

This game is great!!! Immediately went and bought the DLC (HIGHLY recommend) and beat them both over a weekend, and went back in to get any missing achievements. Now I'm just sad there's no more, and seeing as it came out 10 years ago, I'm assuming we there won't be any more. AMAZING nonetheless. Plus I guess there is some community generated content, so I'll have to give that a go.

Seriously though, this game is fantastic. Its a cool "Hacker Simulator" type game, with a great soundtrack to go with. If you've ever wanted to be that 1337 haxor in the movies and look over at someone just to say "I'm in...." before burning down a network, this is it. It'll have you snooping around on the fake KFC website, harassing "Nortron Antivirus" and even stopping a full blown terrorist level attack (or helping it.... no judgement).

This game is great, 10/10 I only wish I hadn't let this gem collect so much dust in my ever-growing library of Steam-sale games I never get around to play.

A fantastic game. Although not true to actual pentesting, it is very charming and is more accurate than most games like this. The storyline is fantastic too. Definitely worth playing, even if you're actually in the industry already (maybe especially if you're in the industry). What an incredible experience.

I love this game! Maybe not 100% accurate when it comes to hacking but extremely fun nevertheless.

TLDR: Do you want to pretend you're a hacker while listening to coding music? Well, this is probably the closest thing to it, and you can actually have some fun while doing it! Get your bearings in a similar to Unix coding interface with simple and straightforward instructions from clients and other friendly hackers, then take contracts with various objectives ranging from modifying files to remotely (maybe?) stopping a man's heart.

Story: As an unknown protagonist, take on a pretty big security threat towards freedom of the people, a final request from a person named Bit. Try your best to learn how to overcome various security obstacles ranging from firewalls to encrypted files by obtaining data and programs from lesser guarded PCs and servers.

Gameplay: This is 90% typing and looks a lot more complicated than it really is. When you really think about it, there's very little gameplay going on and little content. However, you will have eureka moments and THAT is where the meat of the game was to me. I enjoyed the hell out of it and beat myself over the head by not using a guide. Which explains my many hours on the game, as I often hit a roadblock and would just start a new game a few weeks later (it ended up being a few years later as I just beat it in 2025).
The majority of the game consists of downloading programs from various sources to be able to use them against better protected machines that you need access to, to complete whatever objective you currently have.
It can become easy to hit a roadblock. Thankfully, there's a help window and auto complete key that helps you speed things along and allows some wiggling room in your typing. It is not going to hold your hand, however, and the fact that the game feels like a giant puzzle, or I should say an ever increasing series of hurdles to get over will not fancy everyone.
Well, I loved it, I'm a masochist, bring it on.

Graphics: This is really just coding with a nice UI and some effects on the side to keep things... lively.

Audio: If you're playing with only one screen and you get a blue screen of death, it's scary. It's spot on. The tracks are few but fitting and nice.

I'm still dumb after playing this but at least... I finally beat it! On an unrelated note, I had fun opening and closing my cd tray within the game. It's that weird of an experience.

A really fun game. I can't quite put it into words but wow, this game is good. The plot, the gameplay, the contracts, it's all so good and at least for me, it wasn't that difficult to complete the contracts.

super fun hacking game!
played through the whole thing in one sitting, then went back immediately afterwards to get the achievements I'd missed
Looking forward to playing labyrinths next

A fairly cool story with nice mechanics, even though the shell language is extremely limited and sometimes handles inputs incorrectly.

Good game and great puzzles, although it is little bit short. Take me like 5hr to finish main game and 3hr to finish DLC.

after finishing the game and then doing the dlc? i am still absolutely hooked. this game is all i can really think of and out of reflex i tried typing the same commands while doing stuff on my computer, lol.
both are absolutely worth it, the game got me so sucked in that i finished it in one sitting, same with the dlc. it's great, it brings a lot of fun, and definitely keeps you on your toes at times.
not much more to say besides the fact that both the base game's and dlc's endings got me feeling stuff. worth all the money i spent on it.

connect 103.162.33.8
probe
ssh +tab 22
ftp +tab 21
portHack
Access allowed
logein - Name: admin password: admin

A perfect balance of realism and simplification with a unique narrative and in-depth systems that will leave you ever wanting more. Probably my favorite game ever.

literally need more games like that

absolute masterpiece for computer nerds like me :3

Installed game, no instructions, no guides, poked around with some things, moved some files. No obvious way to progress. Game feels completely inaccessible. Didn't request a refund for it in time.

If I wanted to play "re-arrange my desktop files simulator" I can do that with the PC I'm using to "play" Hacknet!

Good afternoon! Dear developers - I like your game very much! Tell me - is there only a CLI mode in the game? GUI is great, but I want more immersion in the "familiar" processes, thank you for your great work!

Very fun game mainly for those who use linux and have used the terminal before.

fun and nice story

Yes its a very good game yeah 10/10 go play buy best game ever created :)

Wow, this game is impressive. I came into it thinking it would either be too much work or too boring. I was completely wrong.

I would recommend this game to anyone really. I haven't been this engaged in a game in a very long time. The story is very good and the game mechanics are very fun.

At this price, you cannot go wrong. Onto Labyrinths!

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☑ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
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☐ 9
☑ 10

Additional notes : The game is great, definitely best in hacking genre. The only bug I had was the start crashing which is easy to fix since it's explained at pinned discussion. One of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. The DLC is by far better than the main game but don't start it if you haven't finished the game (THE KAGUYA TRIALS). Gameplay is awesome and the graphics ....... cmon you're playing a hacking game don't expect great graphics but there are lots of backgrounds in the game as you progress. 9/10 for me

Unique, a bit challenging at times, but overall fun and with an interesting story (9/10).

HOLY CRAP THIS GAME IS AMAZUING

An excellent and entertaining simulation game.

Simple but fun. It's got some interesting puzzles, and the format makes for a game style that's somewhat unique

Typing can be fun as long as you get to pretend you're stealing secrets.

i did not expect a story on a game about hacking...

I'm currently 3-4 hours into my play through and I would say I have encountered 1 scenario which was different from all the rest which honestly might have been me messing up. I basically lost my desktop environment, so I had to rebuild from the terminal. Speaking of the terminal this game is basically terminal simulator, although as long as you have your desktop environment you can also simply click a lot of things.

I haven't really experienced any increase in difficulty in my time playing this game, despite the fact that you're supposedly moving onto more and more elite hacker group with harder hacks/challenges. The only thing that gets 'harder' is the qualification challenges to enter into said groups, but once you're in them the quests they provide are all quite simple.

This game basically is an exercise in tedium. You do the same thing over and over again with very little to no engagement on your end. Your tools carry you, they take care of all the heavy lifting. As long as you can 1) gather sufficient tools for the job and 2) know how to employ those tools (what to type in the terminal), you are set. Your tools do all the work completely by themselves once you've deployed them. I haven't seen them fail once, nor has there ever been a requirement for manual intervention to prevent them from failing.

There's another review on this page from a reviewer who claims to have completed this game and has a total of 10 hours of play time, so there's not a lot of content either. In conclusion this game at best will teach you very basic Linux commands (a lot of them aren't even available in the game) that can be entirely avoided by simply just clicking stuff.

I 100%'d this game, and now every time I open my terminal, I half-expect an email from CSEC.

The thrill of sneaking into secure servers, stealing files, wiping logs… and then panicking when you hear the trace beep? Chef’s kiss.

It’s not real hacking, but it feels like it. Just enough to make you believe you’re one Red Bull away from taking down a megacorp.

8.5/10 — Makes you feel like a hacker without actually ending up on a watchlist.

love it

I saw "hacking simulator" on the store page and "programming", "logic", and "education" in the tags and thought this game was about computer security topics, like cryptography or arbitrary code executions. Turns out all you do is enter terminal commands and the in-game software does the other stuff for you. Even as a terminal simulator, the game isn't that fun. Most of the commands in the game turn out to be useless, and the fact that servers can have only 4 vulnerabilities (passwords, porthack, proxies, and firewalls) made the gameplay repetitive. Consequently, I felt like I was "done" learning the commands roughly halfway through the game.

The story isn't that great either. A majority of the contracts were filler and had nothing to do with Bit and Entech.

Me when I have to turn off a man's life support because I'm bored

One of my favorites game ever!

A very fun game using some actual commands (though if you have too much knowledge in linux it will make it hard to not use actual commands) to solve puzles and beat the clock in stressful traces to keep your computer from getting counter hacked. 10/10

A pleasant surprise. Off to buy dlc

I wish this game taught me to code, but it's really fun to just porthack a rival computer in time

Uplink is this you? lolz
I´m really enjoying this game ! it´s a text based game mostly from what I´ve seen if you like cli and text go for it!

A good game pretty good to have the title "father of the hacking like games" has pretty good learn curve and cool way to teaching , the teenagers jokes are kinda meh doesn't add up to the experience of the game or lore but its ok its just there, the only thing i dont like about the game is that u cannot pause or leave labyrinths progression to go back into main story/game.

a very fun game. makes you feel somewhat like a real hacker. it is a VERY dirty trick to have the punishment for failing a sequence be save file deletion, but i will say it got me the most tense I've ever been playing a video game
tip for a certain sequence: there is no shame in hitting ALT + F4. it resets you to before the sequence started, that way you don't lose your save.

awesome game, it was a bit confusing at first because not all the commands are visible when using the help command, but the story and gameplay is really cool. I would recommend writing down the steps on how to hack a system on paper

абсолютный пик, интересный геймплей, сюжет, головоломки, классные сайд квесты, чего стоила эвтаназия (удаленно). Базовое знакомство с сетевыми протоколами)
короче всем советую

very enjoyable 7-8 hour long game. I'm now professional hacknet unix user. 10/10 :DDD

the CLI interface really sucks:

- doesnt parse spaces like a regular terminal, so "rm *" counts the first space as a character
- text from the terminal can't be selected and copy pasted
- .exe files in a UNIX system (not bad just weird xd)
- tab autocomplete doesnt go past a single file so tabbing at "home/s" wouldn't complete to "home/second_file"
- autocompleting an executable name doesnt add the space at the end

file navigation is hindered by the tiny top right back button. just have a .. button at the top of the file list or at the top of files. make it look like `less` or `vim` or something rather than a new screen

it's sometimes a bit unclear when the current task is complete.

I want to play it, it's just painful to play in the current state

I am saying this without exaggeration, This is one of the best games I've ever played in my life. The soundtrack is just so good when the tension picks up, the visuals are amazing. Commands are also somewhat realistic being based on UNIX commands. There is so so so so much to explore in the game and also the DLC is just amazing. I really hope that one day Hacknet will get a sequel that's even better.

first hacking sim and it was amazing! I really enjoyed solving contracts and uncovering secrets, also the UI is pretty nice and easy to navigate. I bought it on sale and decided to get the dlc too because of how much i enjoyed it : D definitely worth trying out.