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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BloodNet

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...
Computer Underground

DOS1993freeware3.5/5 Haxsoft
Deus Ex

DOSMac2000protected4.2/5 Ion Storm
Hacker

DOSMac19864/5 Activision
Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers

DOS19863.7/5 Activision
Igor Objective Uuklaonia

DOS19953.5/5 Péndulo Studios
Interphase

DOS19894.1/5 The Assembly Line
Neuromancer

DOS19894/5 Interplay Productions
Sid Meier's Covert Action

DOS1990protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
System Shock

DOS1994protected4/5 Looking Glass Studios
System Shock 2

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.
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Windows XP/98/952003protected4/5 Introversion Software Limited