Abandonware DOS title

Games featuring some sort of hacking

There's a unique kind of simulation games that can be described only as "hacking simulations". The gameplay of hacking sims is centered around some kind of computer hacking, but can involve other types of activities usually part of different genres (adventure, strategy, etc.). Hacking is often implemented in games as a mini-game or a subset of non-mandatory skills (take, for example, Deus Ex, or System Shock).

Most popular hacking games

System Shock 2
action-adventureWindows XP/98/95, Linux, Mac
System Shock
action-adventureDOS
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simulationWindows XP/98/95

Hacking games

  • bloodnet-4
    DOS1993protected3.9/5 MicroProse Software

    BloodNet is a blend of point & click adventure (it has puzzles and an adventure style dialogue system) and RPG (player statistics, combat, random encounters), set in a dark cyberpunk New York. BloodNet was developed and published by MicroProse software in 1993. You are Ransom Stark who's goal in the game is to defeat a vampire called Van Helsin...

  • computerunderground-1
    DOS1993freeware3.5/5 Haxsoft
  • deus-ex-02
    DOSMac2000protected4.2/5 Ion Storm
  • hacker-4
    DOSMac19864/5 Activision
  • hacker-2-doomsday-papers-3
    DOS19863.7/5 Activision
  • igor_objective_uuklaonia-02
    DOS19953.5/5 Péndulo Studios
  • interphase-01
    DOS19894.1/5 The Assembly Line
  • neuromancer-3
    DOS19894/5 Interplay Productions
  • covertaction-1
    DOS1990protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
  • system-shock-04
    DOS1994protected4/5 Looking Glass Studios
  • system-shock-2-07
    Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac1999protected4.2/5 Irrational Games

    System Shock 2 is a Windows science fiction cyberpunk game developed by Irrational Games, designed by Ken Levine and published by Electronic Arts in 1999. System Shock 2 is a blend of more than one genre: RPG, action-adventure, shooter, stealth game.

  • uplink-v1.3-5
    Windows XP/98/952003protected4/5 Introversion Software Limited
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